Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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Page 89
... questions immediately growing out of the Mexican War , his position may well be pronounced moderate . Of slavery as a motive for the war , not a word is spoken . At one point , indeed , a hint of this kind seems almost to have been on ...
... questions immediately growing out of the Mexican War , his position may well be pronounced moderate . Of slavery as a motive for the war , not a word is spoken . At one point , indeed , a hint of this kind seems almost to have been on ...
Page 91
... question of such improvements was " verging to a final crisis , " Lincoln said the friends of the policy " must now battle , and battle manfully , or surrender all . " The entire speech is of more than tran- sient value , sustaining the ...
... question of such improvements was " verging to a final crisis , " Lincoln said the friends of the policy " must now battle , and battle manfully , or surrender all . " The entire speech is of more than tran- sient value , sustaining the ...
Page 92
... question remained as an inheritance to the Thirtieth Congress , and had lost nothing of its significance after an immense territorial area had been positively acquired under the ratified treaty with Mexico . In whatever form the ...
... question remained as an inheritance to the Thirtieth Congress , and had lost nothing of its significance after an immense territorial area had been positively acquired under the ratified treaty with Mexico . In whatever form the ...
Page 102
... question , and got to give much more atten- tion to it hereafter than we have been doing . " If his activity was quickened or his purpose modified by what he heard that night , Lincoln's opinions were not mate- rially changed . This may ...
... question , and got to give much more atten- tion to it hereafter than we have been doing . " If his activity was quickened or his purpose modified by what he heard that night , Lincoln's opinions were not mate- rially changed . This may ...
Page 103
... question . There were to his mind , however , practical difficulties in the one case that did not exist in the other . Whatever his reasons , he now stood in the same position as when he wrote his " protest " in 1837. When Mr. Palfrey ...
... question . There were to his mind , however , practical difficulties in the one case that did not exist in the other . Whatever his reasons , he now stood in the same position as when he wrote his " protest " in 1837. When Mr. Palfrey ...
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