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 pages |
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... Nebraska bill had been passed on the previous twenty- second of May . Mr. Douglas had returned to Illinois to meet an outraged constituency . He had made a fragmentary speech in Chicago , the people filling up each hiatus in a peculiar ...
... Nebraska bill had been passed on the previous twenty- second of May . Mr. Douglas had returned to Illinois to meet an outraged constituency . He had made a fragmentary speech in Chicago , the people filling up each hiatus in a peculiar ...
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... Nebraska bill ! ' " Lincoln - Well , the priority of invention being settled , let us award all credit to Judge Douglas for being the first to discover it . ' " It would be impossible , in these limits , to give an idea of the strength ...
... Nebraska bill ! ' " Lincoln - Well , the priority of invention being settled , let us award all credit to Judge Douglas for being the first to discover it . ' " It would be impossible , in these limits , to give an idea of the strength ...
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... Nebraska act . The election came on , and a number of ballots were taken , the almost united oppo- sition voting steadily for Lincoln , but the anti - Nebras- ka Democrats for Trumbull . Mr. Lincoln became ap- prehensive that those men ...
... Nebraska act . The election came on , and a number of ballots were taken , the almost united oppo- sition voting steadily for Lincoln , but the anti - Nebras- ka Democrats for Trumbull . Mr. Lincoln became ap- prehensive that those men ...
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... Nebraska bill , then recently passed , was dissected in a manner such as has never been surpassed in the halls of Congress . Never since , in all the discus- sions , innumerable and interminable , of that subject in the intervening six ...
... Nebraska bill , then recently passed , was dissected in a manner such as has never been surpassed in the halls of Congress . Never since , in all the discus- sions , innumerable and interminable , of that subject in the intervening six ...
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... Nebraska bill , by forcing upon the people of Kansas , against their will , and in defiance of their known and earnestly - expressed wishes , a constitution recognizing slavery as one of their domestic institutions , it has forfeited ...
... Nebraska bill , by forcing upon the people of Kansas , against their will , and in defiance of their known and earnestly - expressed wishes , a constitution recognizing slavery as one of their domestic institutions , it has forfeited ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...