Lincoln: Passages from His Speeches and LettersCentury Company, 1925 - 204 páginas |
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... Jefferson and Adams , they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men . " And this is from his very last public address : " Concede that the new govern- ment of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl ...
... Jefferson and Adams , they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men . " And this is from his very last public address : " Concede that the new govern- ment of Louisiana is only to what it should be as the egg is to the fowl ...
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... - lieve that Mr. Jefferson , who penned the immortal paper , could have supposed himself applying the language of that instrument to the negro race , and yet held a portion of that race in slavery 50 XIII THE NEGRO INCLUDED.
... - lieve that Mr. Jefferson , who penned the immortal paper , could have supposed himself applying the language of that instrument to the negro race , and yet held a portion of that race in slavery 50 XIII THE NEGRO INCLUDED.
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... Jefferson was the owner of slaves , as undoubtedly he was , in speaking upon this very subject , he used the strong language that " he trembled for his country when he remem- bered that God was just " ; and I will offer the highest ...
... Jefferson was the owner of slaves , as undoubtedly he was , in speaking upon this very subject , he used the strong language that " he trembled for his country when he remem- bered that God was just " ; and I will offer the highest ...
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... some of these re- spects wrong , to stand and act with us in treating it as a wrong , ―then , and not till then , I think , will we in some way come to an end of this slavery agitation . THE PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON From a letter to H. L. ...
... some of these re- spects wrong , to stand and act with us in treating it as a wrong , ―then , and not till then , I think , will we in some way come to an end of this slavery agitation . THE PRINCIPLES OF JEFFERSON From a letter to H. L. ...
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... other . If the two leading parties of this day are really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams , they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men . But , soberly , it is now no child's play 70 XVI.
... other . If the two leading parties of this day are really identical with the two in the days of Jefferson and Adams , they have performed the same feat as the two drunken men . But , soberly , it is now no child's play 70 XVI.
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