Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal HamlinW. A. Townsend & Company, 1860 - 390 էջ |
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... votes - and whose past ceases to concern them in proportion as his present employs them - will not be numbered with those immortal books which survive the year of their publication . It does not challenge criticism ; it fulfills the end ...
... votes - and whose past ceases to concern them in proportion as his present employs them - will not be numbered with those immortal books which survive the year of their publication . It does not challenge criticism ; it fulfills the end ...
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... Votes in the Legislature - First Opposition to Douglas - The Long Nine - Electioneering Candidate- Admiration of Lincoln's ... Vote for Lincoln in the National Convention of 1856 - Position in the Fremont Campaign - Debates with Douglas ...
... Votes in the Legislature - First Opposition to Douglas - The Long Nine - Electioneering Candidate- Admiration of Lincoln's ... Vote for Lincoln in the National Convention of 1856 - Position in the Fremont Campaign - Debates with Douglas ...
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... vote was almost unanimous in his favor ; though he had only arrived from the war and announced himself as a candidate ten days before the election . Indeed , he received , at this election , one more vote in his precinct than both of ...
... vote was almost unanimous in his favor ; though he had only arrived from the war and announced himself as a candidate ten days before the election . Indeed , he received , at this election , one more vote in his precinct than both of ...
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... vote cast for any candidate . Before this election Lincoln had engaged and failed in merchandising on his own account . 66 " ; It is supposed that it was at New Salem that Lincoln , while a " clerk in Offutt's store , first saw Stephen ...
... vote cast for any candidate . Before this election Lincoln had engaged and failed in merchandising on his own account . 66 " ; It is supposed that it was at New Salem that Lincoln , while a " clerk in Offutt's store , first saw Stephen ...
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... vote than that given to any other candidate . As a legislator he served his constituents so well that he was three times afterward returned to his place ; in 1836 , in 1838 , and in 1840. He then terminated his legislative career by a ...
... vote than that given to any other candidate . As a legislator he served his constituents so well that he was three times afterward returned to his place ; in 1836 , in 1838 , and in 1840. He then terminated his legislative career by a ...
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Էջ 347 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Էջ 100 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Էջ 239 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Էջ 243 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Էջ 216 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Էջ 217 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Էջ 181 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Էջ 202 - 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 identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Էջ 189 - It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative.
Էջ 194 - ... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine...