Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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Page 88
... positions . * The part of this passage relating to the natural right of revo- lution was quoted against him fifteen years later , on the floor of the House . Hon . A. H. Stephens also claimed that this was an indorsement of Secession ...
... positions . * The part of this passage relating to the natural right of revo- lution was quoted against him fifteen years later , on the floor of the House . Hon . A. H. Stephens also claimed that this was an indorsement of Secession ...
Page 89
... position on which it can settle down and be at He is a bewildered , confounded and miserably perplexed man . God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity . ease ...
... position on which it can settle down and be at He is a bewildered , confounded and miserably perplexed man . God grant he may be able to show there is not something about his conscience more painful than all his mental perplexity . ease ...
Page 103
... position as when he wrote his " protest " in 1837. When Mr. Palfrey , of Massachusetts , sought to introduce a bill " to repeal all acts , or parts of acts , of Congress , establishing or maintaining slavery or the slave trade in the ...
... position as when he wrote his " protest " in 1837. When Mr. Palfrey , of Massachusetts , sought to introduce a bill " to repeal all acts , or parts of acts , of Congress , establishing or maintaining slavery or the slave trade in the ...
Page 137
... position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic . . . . Near eighty years ago we began by declaring all men are created equal ; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other ...
... position which the avowed principle of this Nebraska law gives to slavery in the body politic . . . . Near eighty years ago we began by declaring all men are created equal ; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other ...
Page 157
... position of Douglas ; and , at all events , this policy found little support among the Republicans of Illinois . The Democrats of that State , at their convention on the 21st of April , gave Douglas an unconditional indorsement . A few ...
... position of Douglas ; and , at all events , this policy found little support among the Republicans of Illinois . The Democrats of that State , at their convention on the 21st of April , gave Douglas an unconditional indorsement . A few ...
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