Lives and Speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal HamlinW. A. Townsend & Company, 1860 - 390 páginas |
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... Position twenty Years ago - Practice of the Law - Characteristics as a Lawyer - Marriage - Cam- paign of 1844 - Election to Congress ... .... 50 CHAPTER VI . Lincoln in Congress - The Mexican War - Opposition to it- Speech and ...
... Position twenty Years ago - Practice of the Law - Characteristics as a Lawyer - Marriage - Cam- paign of 1844 - Election to Congress ... .... 50 CHAPTER VI . Lincoln in Congress - The Mexican War - Opposition to it- Speech and ...
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... position as the sun rose and sank , so as to keep in the shade , and utterly unconscious of everything but the principles of common law . People went by , and he took no account of them ; the saluta- tions of acquaintances were returned ...
... position as the sun rose and sank , so as to keep in the shade , and utterly unconscious of everything but the principles of common law . People went by , and he took no account of them ; the saluta- tions of acquaintances were returned ...
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... position among the first lawyers of the place . In the midst of affairs , however , he never relaxed his habits of study ; taking up , one by one , the natural sciences , and thoroughly acquainting himself with the abstrusest ...
... position among the first lawyers of the place . In the midst of affairs , however , he never relaxed his habits of study ; taking up , one by one , the natural sciences , and thoroughly acquainting himself with the abstrusest ...
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William Dean Howells. ' The sum , " said Lincoln , " of these positions is , Do nothing at all , lest you do something wrong . " He then proceeded to assail each of the positions , demolishing them one after another . That admirable ...
William Dean Howells. ' The sum , " said Lincoln , " of these positions is , Do nothing at all , lest you do something wrong . " He then proceeded to assail each of the positions , demolishing them one after another . That admirable ...
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... position which he maintained in the House of Representatives was eminently respectable . His name appears oftener in the ayes and noes , than in the de- bates ; he spoke therefore with the more force and effect when he felt called upon ...
... position which he maintained in the House of Representatives was eminently respectable . His name appears oftener in the ayes and noes , than in the de- bates ; he spoke therefore with the more force and effect when he felt called upon ...
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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...