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" But you say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the... "
Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin - Page 202
by William Dean Howells - 1860 - 390 pages
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Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and Proclamations

Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5

Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...tried, against a new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who...True, you disagree among yourselves as to what that subtitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting...
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The History of North America, Volume 15

Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1906 - 700 pages
...conservative and called the anti-slavery party destructive, revolutionary: yet the pro-slavery party "with one accord reject, and scout and spit upon that old policy" of the fathers. "Again, you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was....
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The Civil War: The National View

Francis Newton Thorpe - History - 1906 - 626 pages
...conservative and called the anti-slavery party destructive, revolutionary : yet the pro-slavery party "with one accord reject, and scout and spit upon that old policy" of the fathers. "Again, you say we have made the slavery question more prominent than it formerly was....
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Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and presidential addresses, 1859 ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...which now link together the various parts." to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Life and Works of Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and presidential addresses, 1859 ...

Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...now link together the various parts." 1' to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting; and denouncing the old...
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Letters and telegrams

Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 pages
...which now link together the various parts." to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point iti controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters ..., Volume 1

Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who framed the government nnder which we live"; while you with one accord reject,...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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Specimens of Exposition and Argument

Debates and debating - 1908 - 394 pages
...We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted 15 by "our fathers who framed the government under which...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You 20 are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the...
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Abraham Lincoln: The People's Leader in the Struggle for National Existence

George Haven Putnam - United States - 1909 - 330 pages
...tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by " our fathers who...yourselves as to what that substitute shall be. You are divided on new propositions and plans, but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old...
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