Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... force , and demonstrations which have accomplished their purpose ? There are still some survivors of the past who , with the writer , remember what an inspiration to patriotism these arguments were when slavery was making ready to raise ...
... force , and demonstrations which have accomplished their purpose ? There are still some survivors of the past who , with the writer , remember what an inspiration to patriotism these arguments were when slavery was making ready to raise ...
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... forces us to shrink from our pleasing anticipa- tions . The probable cost of this contemplated railroad is estimated at $ 290,000 ; the bare state- ment of which , in my opinion , is sufficient to justify the belief that the improvement ...
... forces us to shrink from our pleasing anticipa- tions . The probable cost of this contemplated railroad is estimated at $ 290,000 ; the bare state- ment of which , in my opinion , is sufficient to justify the belief that the improvement ...
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... force , take a drink from the Ohio , or make a track on the Blue Ridge , in a trial of a thousand years . " At what point , then , is the approach of danger to be expected ? I answer , if it ever reaches us , it must spring up among us ...
... force , take a drink from the Ohio , or make a track on the Blue Ridge , in a trial of a thousand years . " At what point , then , is the approach of danger to be expected ? I answer , if it ever reaches us , it must spring up among us ...
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... forces so many good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty , criticising the Declaration of Inde- pendence , and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self ...
... forces so many good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very fundamental principles of civil liberty , criticising the Declaration of Inde- pendence , and insisting that there is no right principle of action but self ...
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... force of that decision ; that it opened all the terri- tories to slavery against the will of the people and the territorial legislature ; that it was a masterly analysis of the views of the majority of the court , and did not touch the ...
... force of that decision ; that it opened all the terri- tories to slavery against the will of the people and the territorial legislature ; that it was a masterly analysis of the views of the majority of the court , and did not touch the ...
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