Abraham Lincoln and the Men of His Time, Volume 2Jennings & Pye, 1901 |
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... living through a period of great lead- ers and statesmen , he was , without doubt , one of the ablest and most reliable among our distinguished men . When the plans were made to extend slavery into the Western Territories , which were ...
... living through a period of great lead- ers and statesmen , he was , without doubt , one of the ablest and most reliable among our distinguished men . When the plans were made to extend slavery into the Western Territories , which were ...
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... living along it were old men , at an average of twenty - five years , by reason of their repeated disappoint- ments and original belief that it was a navigable stream . Great contentions and disputes were breaking out some- where along ...
... living along it were old men , at an average of twenty - five years , by reason of their repeated disappoint- ments and original belief that it was a navigable stream . Great contentions and disputes were breaking out some- where along ...
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... absent for periods , from an honored place in the Senate , to wage war and rapine against the free State people . When his term expired he had not failed . No man living could have done the bloody work better. THE MEN OF HIS TIME . 43.
... absent for periods , from an honored place in the Senate , to wage war and rapine against the free State people . When his term expired he had not failed . No man living could have done the bloody work better. THE MEN OF HIS TIME . 43.
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Robert Henry Browne. No man living could have done the bloody work better to the slaveholders ' liking . The propaganda sustained him , and boldly declared that he would succeed and be re - elected . But Missouri would not and did not re ...
Robert Henry Browne. No man living could have done the bloody work better to the slaveholders ' liking . The propaganda sustained him , and boldly declared that he would succeed and be re - elected . But Missouri would not and did not re ...
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... living . God was stirring up the dull consciences of the people to the virtue of rècog- nizing the rights of men , so defiantly written in the Declara- tion of Independence , " that all men were created free and equal , " and the ...
... living . God was stirring up the dull consciences of the people to the virtue of rècog- nizing the rights of men , so defiantly written in the Declara- tion of Independence , " that all men were created free and equal , " and the ...
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Page 214 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles, right and wrong, throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself....
Page 233 - 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?
Page 519 - Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.
Page 645 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?
Page 199 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 278 - But you will not abide the election of a Republican president! In that supposed event, you say, you will destroy the Union ;' and then, you say, the great crime of having destroyed it will be upon us! That is cool. A highwayman holds a pistol to my ear, and mutters through his teeth, "Stand and deliver, or I shall kill you, and then you will be a murderer!
Page 515 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. "I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 508 - I can say in return, sir, that all the political sentiments I entertain have been drawn, so far as I have been able to draw them, from the sentiments which originated in and were given to the world from this hall. I have never had a feeling, politically, that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
Page 632 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 278 - It is exceedingly desirable that all parts of this great Confederacy shall be at peace, and in harmony one with another. Let us Republicans do our part to have it so. Even though much provoked, let us do nothing through passion and ill temper. Even though the Southern people will not so much as listen to us, let us calmly consider their demands, and yield to them if, in our deliberate view of our duty, we possibly can.