The Life of Abraham Lincoln: Drawn from Original Sources and Containing Many Speeches, Letters, and Telegrams Hitherto Unpublished, and Illustrated with Many Reproductions from Original Paintings, Photographs, Etc, Volumen1Lincoln history society, 1900 |
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... to teach a few terms while he looked for an opening to something better . The terms were ir- regular , their length being decided by the time the settlers felt able to board the master and pay his small ORIGIN OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY 15.
... to teach a few terms while he looked for an opening to something better . The terms were ir- regular , their length being decided by the time the settlers felt able to board the master and pay his small ORIGIN OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY 15.
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... opening for light ; there was no pun- cheon covering on the ground . The furniture was of their own manufacture . The table and chairs were of the rudest sort - rough slabs of wood in which holes were bored and legs fitted in . Their ...
... opening for light ; there was no pun- cheon covering on the ground . The furniture was of their own manufacture . The table and chairs were of the rudest sort - rough slabs of wood in which holes were bored and legs fitted in . Their ...
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... opening of Denton Offutt's store is not known . We only know that on July 8 , 1831 , the County Commissioners ' Court of Sanga- mon County granted Offutt a license to retail merchandise at New Salern , for which he paid five dollars , a ...
... opening of Denton Offutt's store is not known . We only know that on July 8 , 1831 , the County Commissioners ' Court of Sanga- mon County granted Offutt a license to retail merchandise at New Salern , for which he paid five dollars , a ...
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... opening of canals and railroads , and the clearing out of the rivers . In the Sangamon country the population felt that a quick way of getting to Beardstown on the Illinois river , to which point the steamer came from the Mississippi ...
... opening of canals and railroads , and the clearing out of the rivers . In the Sangamon country the population felt that a quick way of getting to Beardstown on the Illinois river , to which point the steamer came from the Mississippi ...
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... opening of the Sangamon rose to a fever . The " Talisman " actually came up the river ; scores of men went to Beardstown to meet her , among them Lincoln , of course , and to him was given the honor of pilot- ing her an honor which made ...
... opening of the Sangamon rose to a fever . The " Talisman " actually came up the river ; scores of men went to Beardstown to meet her , among them Lincoln , of course , and to him was given the honor of pilot- ing her an honor which made ...
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Página 26 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 25 - ... to the rule of three." If a straggler supposed to understand Latin happened to sojourn in the neighborhood, he was looked upon as a wizard. There was absolutely nothing to excite ambition for education. Of course, when I came of age I did not know much. Still, somehow, I could read, write and cipher to the rule of three, but that was all.
Página 136 - Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than to abate its evils.
Página 119 - While acting as their representative, I shall be governed by their will on all subjects upon which I have the means of knowing what their will is; and upon all others I shall do what my own judgment teaches me will best advance their interests. Whether elected or not, I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States, to enable our State, in common with others, to dig canals and construct railroads without borrowing money and paying the interest on it. If alive...
Página 63 - Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.
Página 187 - ... wishes to hinder him. Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation. There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it.
Página 146 - And for the purpose of making the matter as plain as possible, I now say that you can now drop the subject, dismiss your thoughts (if you ever had any) from me forever, and leave this letter unanswered without calling forth one accusing murmur from me.
Página 173 - I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell ; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, as it appears to me.
Página 197 - I think annexation an evil. (I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free States, due to the Union of the States, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem), to let the slavery of the other States alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear that we should never knowingly lend ourselves, directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death — to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.
Página 174 - Speed, if you did not love her, although you might not wish her death, you would most certainly be resigned to it. Perhaps this point is no longer a question with you, and my pertinacious dwelling upon it is a rude intrusion upon your feelings. If so, you must pardon me. You know the hell I have suffered on that point, and how tender I am upon it. ... I am now fully convinced that you love her as ardently as you are capable of loving. Your ever being happy in her presence, and your intense anxiety...