Lincoln, His Life and Time (Volume 1); Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with ... and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connect baixar o livro de graça

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: here you threw up your hats and hurrahed for Democracy. More than that; tai: e all the arguments made in favor of the system you have proposed, and it carefully excludes the idea that there is any thintr wrong in the institution of slavery. The arguments to sustain that policy carefully excluded it. Even here to-day you heard Judge Douglas quarrel with roe because I uttered a wish that it might sometime come to an end. Although Henry Olay could say he wished every slave in the United State was in the country of his ancestors, I am denounced hy those pretendh.'g to respect Henry Clay for uttering a wish that it might sometime, in some peaceful way, come to an end. The Democratic policy in regard to that institution will not tolerate the merest breath, the slightest hint, of the least degree of wrong about it. Besides the speeches made in the course of these seven joit debates, Mr. Lincoln delivered at least fifty other addresses to the people, in all parts of the State, during the canvass, everywhere expounding his views and declaring his sentiments with the same frankness and manliness. The chief interest of the contest, however, centred in their joint debates, and with every succeeding encounter the feeling in the State, and throughout the country, became more intense. As the day for final decision approached, Illinois fairly blazed -with the excitement. While Mr. Douglas fully sustained his previous reputation, and justified the estimate his friends had placed upon his abilities, he labored under the comparative disadvantage of being much better known to the country at large than was his antagonist During his long public career, people had become par tially accustomed to his manner of presenting arguments and enforcing them. The novelty and freshness of Mr. Lincoln's addresses..