Letter from Abraham Lincoln to Williamson Durley (1845)
Friend Durley: When I saw you at home, it was agreed that I should write to you and your brother Madison. Until I then saw you, I was not aware
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Friend Durley: When I saw you at home, it was agreed that I should write to you and your brother Madison. Until I then saw you, I was not aware
Hon. J. N. Brown My dear Sir I do not perceive how I can express myself, more plainly, than I have done in the foregoing extracts. In four of them
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Suppose it is true, that the negro is inferior to the white, in the gifts of nature; is it not the exact reverse justice that the white should, for that
Mr. Ford:— I see in your paper of the 8th inst. a communication in relation to myself, of which it is perhaps expected of me to take some notice. Shortly
Fellow-citizens: Another election which is deemed an important one is approaching, and, as I suppose, the Republican party will without much difficulty elect their State ticket. But in regard to
MY FRIENDS: I am informed that you have assembled here this afternoon under the impression that I had made an appointment to speak at this time. This is a
Having served four years in the depths of a great, and yet unended national peril, I can view this call to a second term, in nowise more flatteringly to
On the fourth day of July, 1776, the people of a few feeble and oppressed colonies of Great Britain, inhabiting a portion of the Atlantic coast of North America, publicly
My dear Sir: Your letter, mentioned in your two telegrams, has not reached me; so that I am without knowledge of its particulars. I beg you to pardon me for