| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 444 pages
...objections to this. First, no party can command respect which sustains this year what it opposed last. Secondly, Douglas (who is the most dangerous enemy...respects as requested. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. *LETTER TO HAWKINS TAYLOR SPRINGFIELD, ILL., September 6, 1859. My dear Sir: Yours of the 3d is just... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 1080 pages
...the nation who gave us, in Illinois, their sympathy last year. I never saw him, but suppose him to bo able and right-minded ; but still he may not be the...respects as requested. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. September 16, 1859. — SPEECH AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. Fellow-citizens of the State of Ohio: I cannot fail... | |
| Charles Washington Moores - 1900 - 156 pages
...When an occasional suggestion of this sort reached him, Lincoln was entirely sincere in his answer, " I must say I do not think myself fit for the presidency " ; or, as he wrote to a Western judge, " It seems as if they ought to find somebody who knows more... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 pages
...objections to this. First, no party can command respect which sustains this year what it opposed last. Secondly, Douglas (who is the most dangerous enemy...with me, I shall look for your letters anxiously. [From a speech at Columbus, Ohio, 16 September 1859.] In that contest [with Douglas] I did not any... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 pages
...objections to this. First, no party can command respect which sustains this year what it opposed last. Secondly, Douglas (who is the most dangerous enemy...with me, I shall look for your letters anxiously. [From a speech at Columbus, Ohio, 16 September 1859.] In that contest [with Douglas]VI did not any... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1903 - 408 pages
...of the few distinguished men of the nation who gave us their sympathy last year. I never saw him — suppose him to be able and right-minded, but still...with me, I shall look for your letters anxiously. There was a lively canvass this year in Ohio, where Mr. Chase, near the close of his second term as... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 650 pages
...accepted by the public mind as a just principle, nationalizes slavery, and revives the African slave trade inevitably. Taking slaves into new Territories, and...respects as requested. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. TO HAWKINS TAYLOR. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Sept. 6, 1859. HAWKINS TAYLOR, Esq. of the US Court in your city... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 738 pages
...Kansas from having slaves, and when you have found it, it willb* an equally good one why Congress shoufd not hinder the people of Georgia from importing slaves...respects as requested. Yours very truly, A. LINCOLN. September 16, 1859. — SPEECH AT COLUMBUS, OHIO. Fellow-citizens of the State of Ohio: I cannot fail... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 404 pages
...which establishes one will establish the ether. Try a thousand years for a sound reason why COJQgress shall not hinder the people of Kansas from having...with me, I shall look for your letters anxiously. [From a speech at Columbus, Ohio, 16 September 1859.] In that contest [with Douglas] I did not any... | |
| Denton Jaques Snider - 1908 - 584 pages
...willingness. His statement in a letter to Galloway (July 28, 1859) cannot be set down to mere modesty: "I must say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency." Already farsighted men outside of Illinois had begun to see in him the coming man. At a later date... | |
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