Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... favor of the de- cision ? These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse preparatory to mounting him , when it is dreaded that he may give the rider a fall . And why the hasty after - indorsements of the ...
... favor of the de- cision ? These things look like the cautious patting and petting of a spirited horse preparatory to mounting him , when it is dreaded that he may give the rider a fall . And why the hasty after - indorsements of the ...
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... favor of Federal prohibition of slavery in Federal Territories , according to the practice of our fathers who framed the government under which we live . Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the ...
... favor of Federal prohibition of slavery in Federal Territories , according to the practice of our fathers who framed the government under which we live . Not one of all your various plans can show a precedent or an advocate in the ...
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... favor . Republican doctrines and declarations are accompanied with a continual protest against any interference whatever with . your slaves , or with you about your slaves . Surely , this does not encourage them to revolt . True , we do ...
... favor . Republican doctrines and declarations are accompanied with a continual protest against any interference whatever with . your slaves , or with you about your slaves . Surely , this does not encourage them to revolt . True , we do ...
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... favor . Not quite so . But waiving the lawyer's distinction between dictum and decision , the Courts have decided the question for you in a sort of way . The Courts have substantially said , it is your Consti- tutional right to take ...
... favor . Not quite so . But waiving the lawyer's distinction between dictum and decision , the Courts have decided the question for you in a sort of way . The Courts have substantially said , it is your Consti- tutional right to take ...
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... favor , long ago - decided it without a division among themselves , when making the decision ; without divi- sion among themselves about the meaning of it after it was made , and so far as any evidence is left , without basing it upon ...
... favor , long ago - decided it without a division among themselves , when making the decision ; without divi- sion among themselves about the meaning of it after it was made , and so far as any evidence is left , without basing it upon ...
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