Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volumen1Century Company, 1907 |
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... authority to obtain for your- selves such protection by copyright , or otherwise , in respect to the whole or any part of such a collection , as I might for any reason be entitled to have . Believe me , very sincerely yours , " JOHN G ...
... authority to obtain for your- selves such protection by copyright , or otherwise , in respect to the whole or any part of such a collection , as I might for any reason be entitled to have . Believe me , very sincerely yours , " JOHN G ...
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... authority in the Constitution to establish a bank , and therefore , a bank is uncon- stitutional ; but we with equal truth may say there is no express authority in the Constitution to establish a subtreasury , and there- fore a ...
... authority in the Constitution to establish a bank , and therefore , a bank is uncon- stitutional ; but we with equal truth may say there is no express authority in the Constitution to establish a subtreasury , and there- fore a ...
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... authority , for a week or two . We thought that to appear too keen about it might spur our opponents on about their general ticket project . Upon the whole , I think I may say with certainty that your reëlection is sure , if it be in ...
... authority , for a week or two . We thought that to appear too keen about it might spur our opponents on about their general ticket project . Upon the whole , I think I may say with certainty that your reëlection is sure , if it be in ...
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... authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee . March 4 , 1843. - CIRCULAR FROM WHIG COMMITTEE . Address to the People of Illinois . Fellow - citizens : By a resolution of a meeting of such of the Whigs of the State as ...
... authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee . March 4 , 1843. - CIRCULAR FROM WHIG COMMITTEE . Address to the People of Illinois . Fellow - citizens : By a resolution of a meeting of such of the Whigs of the State as ...
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... authority of Texas or of the United States , and that there and thereby the first blood of the war was shed , there is not one word in all the President has said which would either admit or deny the declaration . This strange omission ...
... authority of Texas or of the United States , and that there and thereby the first blood of the war was shed , there is not one word in all the President has said which would either admit or deny the declaration . This strange omission ...
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Página 265 - 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 625 - Washington, imploring men to unsay what Washington did. Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Página 532 - 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 539 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Página 446 - 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 421 - 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 615 - ... free states? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty, fearlessly and effectively. Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances wherewith we are so industriously plied and belabored...
Página 249 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. '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.
Página 658 - My Friends : No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of these people, I owe everything. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when or whether ever I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington.
Página 178 - The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do. for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities.