 But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ;' and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear,...  Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time - Page 278by Robert Henry Browne - 1901Full view - About this book
 | United States - 1902 - 512 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver,...the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 354 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver,...the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 510 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us I That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear,, and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver,...the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | Joseph Benson Gilder - United States - 1902 - 346 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver,...the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver...the threat of death to me to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, George Henry Warner - Anthologies - 1902 - 642 pages
...great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver,...I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer ! " . If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it are themselves wrong,... | |
 | Hosea Ballou - Atonement - 1902 - 322 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear and mutters through his teeth, ' Stand and deliver,...I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer ! ' " There is ample ground for calling Ballou the Abraham Lincoln of American theology. The homely... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1902 - 194 pages
...demanded of me — my money — was my own ; and I had a clear rigLt to keep it ; but it was no more my 64 own than my vote is my own ; and the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 394 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us ! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver,...the threat of death to me, to extort my money, and the threat of destruction to the Union, to extort my vote, can scarcely be distinguished in principle.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1903 - 460 pages
...crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver,...murderer!" To be sure, what the robber demanded of me—my money—was my own; and I had a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote... | |
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