 | Abraham Lincoln - Slavery - 1890 - 500 pages
...earnestly appeal. I do not argue, I beseech yon to make the arguments for yourselves. You can not, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. I beg of yon a calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 738 pages
...States now I most earnestly appeal. I do not argue. I beseech you to make the argument for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times." Nor did his efforts to avert ruin end here. Congress had prohibited the introduction of slavery in... | |
 | Henry Clay Whitney - Biography & Autobiography - 1892 - 772 pages
...states I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue, I beseech you, to make the argument for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - Presidents - 1892 - 508 pages
...compensated Emancipation. He said: "I do not argue; I beseech you to make the argument for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. . ' . . The change it contemplates would come gently as the dews of heaven, not rending or wrecking... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 394 pages
...States I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue; I beseech you to make the arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 782 pages
...those States I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue — I beseech you to make arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partizan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 394 pages
...those States I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue — I beseech you to make arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partizan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 pages
...those States I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue — I beseech you to make arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. The proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Presidents - 1894 - 700 pages
...by state action. " I do not argue," he said ; " I beseech you to make the argument for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 280 pages
...those States I now earnestly appeal. I do not argue—I beseech you to make arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of...consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above personal and partisan politics. The proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
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