We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. Lincoln and Herndon - Page 173by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Dean Howells - 1860 - 414 pages
...as new, North as well as South." That ~was my sentiment at that time. In connection with it, I said, "We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was inaugurated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1860 - 280 pages
...I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that " we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object, and with the confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...made the entire quotation from that speech that I can make it from memory I used this language : " We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation.... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - 1860 - 326 pages
...I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that " we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object, and with the confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation;... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...upon the Bible. His perversions upon it are endless. Here now are my views upon it in brief. I said we are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation.... | |
| Daniel Webster Wilder - 1875 - 692 pages
...until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South. . . . We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was inaugurated with the avowed object and Confident promise of putting an end to Slavery agitation. Under... | |
| 1881 - 552 pages
...day. In his opening speech, he said : " The Union cannot permanently endure, half slave and half free. We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. It will... | |
| 1887 - 732 pages
...quoted opening paragraph of Mr. Lincoln's speech before the Republican state convention of Illinois: We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with this avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under... | |
| Wendell Phillips Garrison, Francis Jackson Garrison - 1889 - 560 pages
...remarks on this occasion, in the following letter (a translation by the hand of the recipient): 1" We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under... | |
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