 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
 | 1895 - 328 pages
...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 ! ' " What the South wanted, he said, was that the North should cease to call slavery wrong and call... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 460 pages
...ventures the attempt, . . . which ends in little else than his own execution. mutters through his teeth, " Stand and deliver, or 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, and... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill yon, and then you will be a 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...will be upon us I 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 pages
...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...me — my money — was my own ; and I had a clear rigLt to keep it ; but it was no more my own than my vote is my own ; and the threat of death to me,... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...will be upon us? "This 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1900 - 186 pages
...at Cooper Institute, New York— Howe11s, p. 210.) To be sure, what the robber demands of me — 127 my money — was my own; and I had a clear right to...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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1901 - 262 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...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 Henry Browne - United States - 1901 - 718 pages
...will be upon us. That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ears, 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 tfhe threat of destruction to the Union to extort... | |
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