Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 16P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 |
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Page 6589
... tell us they are no more responsi- ble for the origin of slavery than we , I acknowledge the fact . When it is said that the institution exists , and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way , I can under ...
... tell us they are no more responsi- ble for the origin of slavery than we , I acknowledge the fact . When it is said that the institution exists , and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way , I can under ...
Page 6591
... did not make his charge very distinctly ; but I tell you what he can prove by referring to the record . 66 You remember I was an Old Whig ; and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the REPLY TO STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 6591.
... did not make his charge very distinctly ; but I tell you what he can prove by referring to the record . 66 You remember I was an Old Whig ; and whenever the Democratic party tried to get me to vote that the REPLY TO STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS 6591.
Page 6600
... tell what they do not know to be true falsify as much as those who knowingly tell falsehoods . I remem- ber the rule , and it must be borne in mind that in what I have read to you I do not say that I know such a conspiracy to exist . To ...
... tell what they do not know to be true falsify as much as those who knowingly tell falsehoods . I remem- ber the rule , and it must be borne in mind that in what I have read to you I do not say that I know such a conspiracy to exist . To ...
Page 6602
... tell what the reason was . When the judge spoke at Clinton he came very near mak- ing a charge of falsehood against me . He used , as I found it printed in a newspaper , which I remember was very nearly like the real speech , the ...
... tell what the reason was . When the judge spoke at Clinton he came very near mak- ing a charge of falsehood against me . He used , as I found it printed in a newspaper , which I remember was very nearly like the real speech , the ...
Page 6608
... tell him though that he now claims to stand on the Cincinnati platform which affirms that Congress cannot charter a national bank in the teeth of that old standing de- cision that Congress can charter a bank . And I remind him of ...
... tell him though that he now claims to stand on the Cincinnati platform which affirms that Congress cannot charter a national bank in the teeth of that old standing de- cision that Congress can charter a bank . And I remind him of ...
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