 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 326 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. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Devotional calendars - 1907 - 414 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... | |
 | Robert Henry Browne - United States - 1907 - 662 pages
...States now, mostly I 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. I beg of you calm and enlarged consideration of them, ranging, if it may be, far above partisan and personal politics.... | |
 | James Morgan - 1908 - 510 pages
...earnestly with the representatives of those states in Congress, and he addressed the people themselves. "You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times," he warned them in a proclamation in the spring of 1862. Their prejudices against the abolition of slavery,... | |
 | Isaac Newton Phillips - 1910 - 138 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 the times. . . . This proposal makes common cause for a common object. ... It acts not the Pharisee. ... So much... | |
 | Josephus Nelson Larned - Genius - 1911 - 328 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. This proposal makes common cause for a common object, casting no reproaches... | |
 | Rose Strunsky - Presidents - 1914 - 390 pages
...accept compensated abolishment. " I do not argue — I beseech you to make arguments for yourselves. You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times. I beg of you a calm and large consideration of them, ranging if it may be far above personal and partisan politics. This proposal... | |
 | World history - 1914 - 576 pages
...people most interested in the subject-matter. To the people of those States, now, I mostly appeal. * * * You cannot, if you would, be blind to the signs of the times." As the President observed, these signs of the doom of slavery were very plain. Already had Congress... | |
 | Otto H. Kahn - Railroads and state - 1916 - 40 pages
...great statesman and seer and noble man, Abraham Lincoln, addressed the following words to Congress: "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 So much good has not been done, by one effort, in all past time, as... | |
 | Brand Whitlock - 1916 - 222 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... | |
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