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Common terms and phrases50 cents Abolitionists Abraham Lincoln answer argument asked Baker Beardstown believe campaign canvass Chicago circuit client cloth coln Congress contest court David Davis Davis defeat defendant Democratic Douglas Edwards election facts feeling felt Fillmore friends Greeley hand Hardin heard Herndon honor Horace Greeley Illinois Illinois Central Railroad interest James Shields Jeff Joshua F Judge Judge Logan jury Kentucky knew lady lawyer Legislature letter Lincoln Logan Lost Townships Lyman Trumbull married Mary Todd matter meeting ment Merryman Miss Todd never nomination paper cover party political President question relation reply Republican Sangamon Journal seemed Senate sent Shields slavery speech Speed Springfield story Swett Tazewell county tell thing thought tion told took Tremont trial Trumbull truth United States Senate vote Whig Whiteside woman write wrote young Popular passagesPage 410 - I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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... Page 365 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States... Page 410 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the " divine right of kings." It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, " You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it. Page 280 - By general law, life and limb must be protected, yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life; but a life is never wisely given to save a limb. I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution, through the preservation of the nation. Page 215 - 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 the 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, it appears to me. Page 410 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings. Page 321 - Tell me, ye winged winds, That round my pathway roar, Do ye not know some spot Where mortals weep no more ? Some lone and pleasant dell, Some valley in the west, Where, free from toil and pain, The weary soul may rest ? The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low, And sighed for pity as it answered,— Page 278 - And if, so answering, he can show that the soil was ours where the first blood of the war was shed — that it was not within an inhabited country, or, if within such, that the inhabitants had submitted themselves to the civil authority of Texas, or of the United States, and that the same is true of the site of Fort Brown — then I am with him for his justification. Page 278 - I will not stop now to give my opinion concerning — to involve the two countries in a war, and trusting to escape scrutiny by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of military glory, — that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood, that serpent's eye that charms to destroy... Page 425 - This preservation photocopy was made and hand bound at BookLab, Inc. in compliance with copyright law. The paper, Weyerhaeuser Cougar Opaque Natural, meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). References from web pagesHerndon's Lincoln Interview with Rodney O. Davis and Douglas L. Wilson William H. Herndon and Jesse W. Weik / Herndon's Lincoln HERNDON'S INFORMANTS: Letters, Interviews, and Statements about ... John Hoffmann | Review Essay | Journal of the Abraham Lincoln ... ingentaconnect Herndon's Lincoln: William H. Herndon and Jesse W ... The Herndon-Weik Collection of Lincolniana: A Register of the ... Research and Publication - Knox College Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Herndon's Lincoln, by William H ... The Lincoln Bookshelf The Herndon Life of Lincoln Bibliographic information
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