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Title: Complete works of Abraham Lincoln
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Nicolay, John G. (John George), 1832-1901, ed Hay, John, 1838-1905, joint ed Gilder, Richard Watson, 1844-1909 Fish, Daniel, 1848-1924
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: New York : F.D. Tandy Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
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eble nation, themost powerful on the face of the earth, and ifwe only adhere to that principle, we can goforward increasing in territory, in power, instrength, and in glory until the Republic ofAmerica shall be the north star that shall guidethe friend of freedom throughout the civilizedworld. And why can we not adhere to the greatprinciple of self-government upon which our in-stitutions were originally based? I believe thatthis new doctrine preached by Mr. Lincoln andhis party will dissolve the Union if it succeeds.They are trying to array all the Northern Statesin one body against the South, to excite a sec-tional war between the free States and the slaveStates, in order that the one or the other maybe driven to the wall. I am told that my time is out. Mr. Lincolnwill now address you for an hour and a half, andI will then occupy a half hour in replying tohim. Statue of Lincoln in Florence, Italy Reproduced from a Photograph by L. Powers ofthe Original Sculpture by PI. Ball, in 1866.
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1858) Reply at Ottawa 223 Mr. Lincolns Reply in the Ottawa JointDebate. MY FELLOW-CITIZENS: When aman hears himself somewhat misrep-resented, it provokes him—at least, Ifind it so with myself; but when misrepresenta-tion becomes very gross and palpable, it is moreapt to amuse him. The first thing I see fit tonotice is the fact that Judge Douglas alleges,after running through the history of the oldDemocratic and the old Whig parties, thatJudge Trumbull and myself made an arrange-ment in 1854 by which I was to have the placeof General Shields in the United States Senate,and Judge Trumbull was to have the place ofJudge Douglas. Now all I have to say uponthat subject is that I think no man—not evenJudge Douglas—can prove it, because it is nottrue. I have no doubt he is conscientious insaying it. As to those resolutions that he tooksuch a length of time to read, as being the plat-form of the Republican party in 1854, I say Inever had anything to do with them, and I thinkTrumbull neve

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