Abraham LincolnHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
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... months afterward an initerant preacher performed some funeral rites over the poor woman's humble grave . For a year Thomas Lincoln was a widower . Then he went back to Kentucky , and found there Mrs. Sally Johnston , a widow , whom ...
... months afterward an initerant preacher performed some funeral rites over the poor woman's humble grave . For a year Thomas Lincoln was a widower . Then he went back to Kentucky , and found there Mrs. Sally Johnston , a widow , whom ...
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... months , in a scattered way . Probably he had instruction at home , for the sum of all the schooling which he had in his whole life was hardly one year ; 1 a sin- gular start upon the road to the presidency of the United States ! The ...
... months , in a scattered way . Probably he had instruction at home , for the sum of all the schooling which he had in his whole life was hardly one year ; 1 a sin- gular start upon the road to the presidency of the United States ! The ...
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... month , presumably besides board and lodging . Sometimes he slaughtered hogs , at thirty - one cents a day ; and in this " rough work " he was esteemed especially efficient . Such was the making of a President in the United States in ...
... month , presumably besides board and lodging . Sometimes he slaughtered hogs , at thirty - one cents a day ; and in this " rough work " he was esteemed especially efficient . Such was the making of a President in the United States in ...
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... months there arrived in the neighborhood one Denton Offut , one of those scheming , talkative , evanescent busy - bodies who skim vaguely over new territories . This adven- turer had a cargo of hogs , pork , and corn , which he wanted ...
... months there arrived in the neighborhood one Denton Offut , one of those scheming , talkative , evanescent busy - bodies who skim vaguely over new territories . This adven- turer had a cargo of hogs , pork , and corn , which he wanted ...
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... months before this summer of 1831 , and was destined to a brief but riotous life of some seven 1 Herndon , 75 , 76 ; Lamon , 82 ; Arnold , 30 ; N. and H. , i . 72 . 2 N. and H. , i . 74 . years ' duration . Now it had a dozen or THE RAW ...
... months before this summer of 1831 , and was destined to a brief but riotous life of some seven 1 Herndon , 75 , 76 ; Lamon , 82 ; Arnold , 30 ; N. and H. , i . 72 . 2 N. and H. , i . 74 . years ' duration . Now it had a dozen or THE RAW ...
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Página 135 - 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.
Página 95 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Página 155 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation ; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the National Territories, and to overrun us here in these Free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively.
Página 118 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Página 76 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.
Página 136 - I hold that notwithstanding all this there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man.
Página 223 - ... rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery, subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. "This, our new government, is the first in the history of the world based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Página 221 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Página 154 - If slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced and swept away. If it is right, we cannot justly object to its nationality its universality; if it is wrong, they cannot justly insist upon its extension - its enlargement. All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise facts upon...
Página 293 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question, whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.