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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... whole pendency of the act to enforce the Ordinance , the Constitutional amendments were also pending . " That Congress , consisting in all of seventy - six members , including sixteen of the framers of the original Constitution , as ...
... whole pendency of the act to enforce the Ordinance , the Constitutional amendments were also pending . " That Congress , consisting in all of seventy - six members , including sixteen of the framers of the original Constitution , as ...
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... whole world ever did , prior to the beginning of the present century ( and I might almost say prior to the begin- ning of the last half of the present century ) , declare that , in his understanding , any proper division of local from ...
... whole world ever did , prior to the beginning of the present century ( and I might almost say prior to the begin- ning of the last half of the present century ) , declare that , in his understanding , any proper division of local from ...
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... whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery , before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us . Speech at the Cooper Institute . Southern Demands . The BEFORE THE NATION . 57.
... whole atmosphere must be disinfected from all taint of opposition to slavery , before they will cease to believe that all their troubles proceed from us . Speech at the Cooper Institute . Southern Demands . The BEFORE THE NATION . 57.
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... Whole Controversy . " I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way . Most of them would probably say to us , ' Let us alone , do nothing to us , and say what you please about slavery . ' But we do let them alone ...
... Whole Controversy . " I am quite aware they do not state their case precisely in this way . Most of them would probably say to us , ' Let us alone , do nothing to us , and say what you please about slavery . ' But we do let them alone ...
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... whole country , and the whole world . Solomon says , ' there is a time to keep silence ; ' and when men wrangle by the mouth , with no certainty that they mean the same thing while using the same words , it perhaps were as well if they ...
... whole country , and the whole world . Solomon says , ' there is a time to keep silence ; ' and when men wrangle by the mouth , with no certainty that they mean the same thing while using the same words , it perhaps were as well if they ...
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