 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 pages
...exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in — in such a case, we find it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James...upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck. It should not be overlooked that, by the Nebraska bill, the people of a State as well... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 1979 - 414 pages
...together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill . . . we find it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James...beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft . This was the same teleological mode of argument that Lyman Beecher had employed when he inferred... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - 1996 - 486 pages
...when we see these timbers joined together, and see that they exactly make the frame of a house ... we find it impossible not to believe that Stephen...James all understood one another from the beginning."' Moreover, Lincoln did not view the crisis as simply "the work of a small group of Democrats," for he... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pages
...place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such piece in — in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin,...beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck. [Great cheers.] When my friend, Judge Douglas, came to Chicago, on... | |
 | David Zarefsky - 1993 - 324 pages
...piece missing and the frame exactly fitted to bring that piece in, then "we find it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin, and Roger and James,...beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first lick was struck." The frame house, of course, represented national slavery; the "common... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 pages
...place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared yet to bring such piece in— in such a case we feel it impossible not to believe that Stephen and Franklin,...beginning, and all worked upon a common plan or draft drawn before the first blow was struck. [Great cheers.] When my friend, Judge Douglas, came to Chicago, on... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 pages
...exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in — in such a case, we find it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James...from the beginning, and all worked upon a common/? Ian or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck. [SW 1.431] Even before Buchanan was elected,... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pages
...lacking, we can see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared to yet bring such piece in— in such a case, we find it impossible not to believe...upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck. (AL, 2:465-66) Where Lincoln wants to attend to the house divided — to keep up the... | |
 | Stephen Skowronek - 1997 - 592 pages
...joined together, and see they exactly make the frame ... in such a case we find it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James...upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck."20 Concerned that Douglas might use his recent differences with Buchanan to deflate... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 pages
...proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, we found it impossible to not believe that Stephen and Franklin and Roger and James...upon a common plan or draft drawn up before the first lick was struck. By leaving it an open question as to the constitutional authority of the states to... | |
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... lengths and proportions of the different pieces exactly adapted to their respective places, and not a piece too many or too few, not omitting even scaffolding; or, if a single piece be lacking, we see the place in the frame exactly fitted and prepared... 
