1825–1860
Fragment on Slavery and Democracy
Source: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Lamb Publishing, 1906), 389. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be
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Source: The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 7, ed. Arthur Brooks Lapsley (New York: Lamb Publishing, 1906), 389. As I would not be a slave, so I would not be
Abraham Lincoln to James C. Conkling, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1, General Correspondence. Manuscript/Mixed Material, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mal2584600/ My dear Sir: Your letter inviting me to attend a mass
Abraham Lincoln to Erastus Corning and Others, June 1863, draft of reply to resolutions concerning military arrests and suspension of habeas corpus, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1, General Correspondence, Manuscript/Mixed
Source: Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, August 23, 1862, Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, DC, Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1858–1864, Manuscript/Mixed Material, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/item/mal4233400/. Dear Sir:
New Letters and Papers of Lincoln, comp. Paul M. Angle (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1930), 240–241, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ptid=miun.abj5413.0001.001&view=1up&seq=263&skin=2021&q1=fragment. All this is not the result of accident. It has a philosophical cause. Without the
Source: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-06-02-0135. Gentlemen: While I received with much satisfaction your address replete with expressions of esteem, I rejoice in the opportunity of assuring you that I shall always retain grateful
Source: Thomas Jefferson to W. H. Torrance, June 11, 1815, Library of Congress, Manuscript/Mixed Material, https://www.loc.gov/item/mtjbib022064/. . . .The . . . question, whether the judges are invested with exclusive
Thomas Jefferson to William Short, January 3, 1793, available at https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-25-02-0016. … The tone of your letters had for some time given me pain, on account of the extreme warmth
“To Thomas Jefferson from Timothy Pickering, 24 February 1806,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/99-01-02-3296. Accustomed to act as a sense of duty urges; as most would think, with too little
“From James Madison to Robert Smith, 17 July 1810,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-02-02-0530. … I think Govr. Holmes1 should be encouraged in keeping a wakeful eye to occurrences &