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Page 48
... objects and inhabitants aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry ; though whether my expression of those feelings is poetry is quite another question . When I got to writing , the change of subject divided the thing into four ...
... objects and inhabitants aroused feelings in me which were certainly poetry ; though whether my expression of those feelings is poetry is quite another question . When I got to writing , the change of subject divided the thing into four ...
Page 51
... object " to a reëlection , although I thought at the time , and still think , it would be quite as well for me to return to the law at the end of a single term . I made the declaration that I would not be a candidate again , more 51 OF ...
... object " to a reëlection , although I thought at the time , and still think , it would be quite as well for me to return to the law at the end of a single term . I made the declaration that I would not be a candidate again , more 51 OF ...
Page 53
... objects of the war ; at another telling us that " to reject indemnity , by refus- ing to accept a cession of territory , would be to abandon all our just demands , and to wage the war bearing all its ex ... object . " 53 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
... objects of the war ; at another telling us that " to reject indemnity , by refus- ing to accept a cession of territory , would be to abandon all our just demands , and to wage the war bearing all its ex ... object . " 53 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Page 54
... objects of the war ! But , having it now settled that territorial indemnity is the only object , we are urged to seize , by legislation here , all that he was content to take a few months ago , and the whole province of Lower California ...
... objects of the war ! But , having it now settled that territorial indemnity is the only object , we are urged to seize , by legislation here , all that he was content to take a few months ago , and the whole province of Lower California ...
Page 77
... object to my taking my hog to Ne- braska , therefore I must not object to you taking your slave . Now , I admit that this is perfectly logical , if there is no difference between hogs and negroes . But while you thus require me to deny ...
... object to my taking my hog to Ne- braska , therefore I must not object to you taking your slave . Now , I admit that this is perfectly logical , if there is no difference between hogs and negroes . But while you thus require me to deny ...
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