Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal HamlinW. A. Townsend & Company, 1860 - 390 páginas |
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... but his record on this subject is of little interest to the general reader . Lincoln's voice was ever for measures that relieved the struggling poor man from pecuniary or political difficulties ; LIFE AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 45.
... but his record on this subject is of little interest to the general reader . Lincoln's voice was ever for measures that relieved the struggling poor man from pecuniary or political difficulties ; LIFE AND SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 45.
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... measure permit- ting Revolutionary pensioners to loan their pension money without taxation . He advocated a bill exempting from execution Bibles , school - books , and mechanics ' tools . His first recorded vote against Stephen A ...
... measure permit- ting Revolutionary pensioners to loan their pension money without taxation . He advocated a bill exempting from execution Bibles , school - books , and mechanics ' tools . His first recorded vote against Stephen A ...
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... measure Lincoln was opposed , in proportion as he loved and honored Henry Clay . It has been said that no man ever had such friends as Clay possessed . It may be said that he never possessed a friend more ardent , attached , and ...
... measure Lincoln was opposed , in proportion as he loved and honored Henry Clay . It has been said that no man ever had such friends as Clay possessed . It may be said that he never possessed a friend more ardent , attached , and ...
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... measure to give bounty lands to the surviving volun- teer soldiers of the war of 1812 , and arguing the pro- priety of permitting all soldiers holding land warrants , to locate their lands in different parcels , instead of re- quiring ...
... measure to give bounty lands to the surviving volun- teer soldiers of the war of 1812 , and arguing the pro- priety of permitting all soldiers holding land warrants , to locate their lands in different parcels , instead of re- quiring ...
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... measure which commended itself at once to the heart and the pocket of the West . As the representative of a State with many hundred miles of Mississippi river , and vast river interests , he argued to show that an enlight- ened system ...
... measure which commended itself at once to the heart and the pocket of the West . As the representative of a State with many hundred miles of Mississippi river , and vast river interests , he argued to show that an enlight- ened system ...
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Página 347 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers.
Página 100 - 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 239 - 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 243 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Página 216 - 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 217 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Página 181 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 202 - But you say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the government under which we live...
Página 189 - It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative.
Página 194 - ... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine...