Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... suppose I may enter upon it without claim- ing the honour , or risking the danger , which may await its first explorer . It seems as though we were never to have an end to this baneful and corroding system , acting almost as ...
... suppose I may enter upon it without claim- ing the honour , or risking the danger , which may await its first explorer . It seems as though we were never to have an end to this baneful and corroding system , acting almost as ...
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... suppose we would ; not quite so much , however , as you may think . You know I dislike slavery , and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it . So far there is no cause of difference . But you say that sooner than yield your legal right ...
... suppose we would ; not quite so much , however , as you may think . You know I dislike slavery , and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it . So far there is no cause of difference . But you say that sooner than yield your legal right ...
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... suppose you will celebrate , and will even go so far as to read the Declaration . Suppose , after you read it once in the old - fashioned way , you read it once more with Judge Douglas's version . It will then run thus : ' We hold these ...
... suppose you will celebrate , and will even go so far as to read the Declaration . Suppose , after you read it once in the old - fashioned way , you read it once more with Judge Douglas's version . It will then run thus : ' We hold these ...
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... suppose , if it had any signification at all , it was the right of the people to govern themselves , to be sover- eign in their own affairs , while they were squatted down in a country not their own , - while they had squatted on a ...
... suppose , if it had any signification at all , it was the right of the people to govern themselves , to be sover- eign in their own affairs , while they were squatted down in a country not their own , - while they had squatted on a ...
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... suppose that Judge Douglas will claim in a little while that he is the inventor of the idea that the people should gov- ern themselves ; that nobody ever thought of such a thing until he brought it forward . We do not remember that in ...
... suppose that Judge Douglas will claim in a little while that he is the inventor of the idea that the people should gov- ern themselves ; that nobody ever thought of such a thing until he brought it forward . We do not remember that in ...
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Abraham Lincoln's Speeches Abraham Lincoln,L. E. (Lucius Eugene) 1824- Chittenden No preview available - 2016 |
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