 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,...  Life of Abraham Lincoln - Page 210by Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 544 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then...it was no more my 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... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Art Kaufman - History - 1988 - 204 pages
...will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then...demanded of me — my money — was my own; and I have a clear right to keep it; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own; and the threat of... | |
 | Thomas W. Benson - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 272 pages
...will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' Adding that the highwayman's threat can "scarcely be distinguished in principle" from "the threat of... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 724 pages
...is cool," Lincoln exclaimed. "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' " What should Northerners do? Avoiding both the moral indifference with which Douglas approached the... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1996 - 273 pages
...will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' "10 This time the South made good its threat. And Lincoln opposed the lastminute attempts to woo them... | |
 | Robert Allen Rutland - Political Science - 1996 - 298 pages
...Schuster, 1995), 141. is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' * Coercion would not do, Lincoln warned. Then he turned to the Republicans, with a word of advice.... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 pages
...will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!" . . . A few words now to Republicans. It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy... | |
 | Lowell Harrison - History - 2000 - 346 pages
...is cool," Lincoln exclaimed. "A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!'"20 After his New York triumph, Lincoln went to New England to visit his son Robert, who... | |
 | James M. McPherson - History - 1995 - 188 pages
...Republican president as "a highway man [who] holds a pistol to my ear and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!' "23 Although he accused Stephen Douglas of callousness on the issue of black slavery, Lincoln's America... | |
 | Jeremy Roberts - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2004 - 120 pages
...will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, 'Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!'" As the crowd cheered him on, Lincoln crafted a careful argument based on the Constitution and the law.... | |
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