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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... Position on the Slavery Question in 1837 Removes to Springfield , and opens a Law Office . His Labors in the Field of Politics .. 21 • • 22 22 23 24 24 24 • • 26 PART SECOND . IN CONGRESS , Elected to Congress in 1846 ...
... Position on the Slavery Question in 1837 Removes to Springfield , and opens a Law Office . His Labors in the Field of Politics .. 21 • • 22 22 23 24 24 24 • • 26 PART SECOND . IN CONGRESS , Elected to Congress in 1846 ...
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... position on the slavery question , as follows . We quote from the State Jour- nal : " In 1836-7 , Mr. Lincoln was one of the represen- tatives in the Legislature from Sangamon county , and during the session , as usual , resolutions ...
... position on the slavery question , as follows . We quote from the State Jour- nal : " In 1836-7 , Mr. Lincoln was one of the represen- tatives in the Legislature from Sangamon county , and during the session , as usual , resolutions ...
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... Mr. Lincoln's political opponents is , that he voted against the supplies to the army . He was a Whig , and took the position of the Whigs of his day , many eminent Southern men included , which was opposition to the ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 31.
... Mr. Lincoln's political opponents is , that he voted against the supplies to the army . He was a Whig , and took the position of the Whigs of his day , many eminent Southern men included , which was opposition to the ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 31.
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... position , in regard to this case - and I beg it to be understood that I am speaking for no other than myself - and while I am willing to present this to the whole world as my own justification , I rest on these propositions : 1st ...
... position , in regard to this case - and I beg it to be understood that I am speaking for no other than myself - and while I am willing to present this to the whole world as my own justification , I rest on these propositions : 1st ...
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... position that slaves are regarded by the Federal Constitution as property , and that this government and the people of the free States are bound to regard them as prop- erty , and to pay for them as we would for so many mules or oxen ...
... position that slaves are regarded by the Federal Constitution as property , and that this government and the people of the free States are bound to regard them as prop- erty , and to pay for them as we would for so many mules or oxen ...
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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...