The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln: With a Portrait on Steel. To which is Added a Biographical Sketch of Hon. Hannibal HamlinDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 354 páginas |
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... called , made it necessary for them to linger and trade along the sugar coast , and one night they were attacked by seven negroes with intent to kill and rob them . They were hurt some in the melee , but succeeded in driving the negroes ...
... called , made it necessary for them to linger and trade along the sugar coast , and one night they were attacked by seven negroes with intent to kill and rob them . They were hurt some in the melee , but succeeded in driving the negroes ...
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... called " neighbors " then . Young Lincoln was always ready to perform these acts of humanity , and foremost in the counsels of the settlers when their troubles seemed gathering like a thick cloud about them . The surveyor of Sangamon ...
... called " neighbors " then . Young Lincoln was always ready to perform these acts of humanity , and foremost in the counsels of the settlers when their troubles seemed gathering like a thick cloud about them . The surveyor of Sangamon ...
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... called through , Mr. C. J. Inger- soll rose and asked leave to vote . Mr. I. said he was not within the bar when his name was called , but came in before the following name was called . Mr. I. said , if allowed to vote , he would vote ...
... called through , Mr. C. J. Inger- soll rose and asked leave to vote . Mr. I. said he was not within the bar when his name was called , but came in before the following name was called . Mr. I. said , if allowed to vote , he would vote ...
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... called , but he asked leave to vote . It being objected to- Mr. C. J. Ingersoll moved to suspend the rules , to allow Mr. Murphy and himself to vote . Disagreed to . The result was then announced , as follows : Yeas . - Messrs . Green ...
... called , but he asked leave to vote . It being objected to- Mr. C. J. Ingersoll moved to suspend the rules , to allow Mr. Murphy and himself to vote . Disagreed to . The result was then announced , as follows : Yeas . - Messrs . Green ...
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... called on to go farther I do not feel the obligation to yield more . But our friends of the South say , ' You deprive us of all our rights ; we have fought for this territory , and you deny us participation in it . ' Let us consider ...
... called on to go farther I do not feel the obligation to yield more . But our friends of the South say , ' You deprive us of all our rights ; we have fought for this territory , and you deny us participation in it . ' Let us consider ...
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The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln D. W. (David W. ) Bartlett Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 153 - 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. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Página 122 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 221 - 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 190 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Página 92 - 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 234 - This they said and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 158 - James, for instance, — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house or a mill, all the tenons and mortices exactly fitting, and all the 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...
Página 221 - But in the right to eat the bread, without the leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man.
Página 309 - King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, was violated by Congress prohibiting slavery in federal territory; while Mr.
Página 315 - Government under which we live, understood this question just as well, and even better, than we do now," speak as they spoke, and act as they acted upon it. This is all Republicans ask— all Republicans desire— in relation to slavery. As those fathers marked it, so let it be again marked, as an evil not to be extended, but to be tolerated and protected only because of and so far as its actual presence among us makes that toleration and protection a necessity. Let all the guaranties those fathers...