Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-statesmanHoughton Mifflin, 1916 - 260 páginas |
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... error , vs. Cline , 3 Ill . 456. In this case Mr. Lincoln and another represented the defendant in error and claimed that the appeal from the justice of the peace to the Circuit Court should have been taken to the Cir- cuit Court of Jo ...
... error , vs. Cline , 3 Ill . 456. In this case Mr. Lincoln and another represented the defendant in error and claimed that the appeal from the justice of the peace to the Circuit Court should have been taken to the Cir- cuit Court of Jo ...
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... error and Jesse B. Thomas for the defendant in error . This suit was in assumpsit and involved a forged note . The conten- tion of Mr. Lincoln was approved and the judgment of the trial court reversed . Cited by the Supreme Court of ...
... error and Jesse B. Thomas for the defendant in error . This suit was in assumpsit and involved a forged note . The conten- tion of Mr. Lincoln was approved and the judgment of the trial court reversed . Cited by the Supreme Court of ...
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... error , vs. Frazier et al . , defend- ants in error , 5 Ill . 55. O. B. Ficklin appeared for the plaintiffs in error and Mr. Lincoln for the defendants in error . This was a bill in chancery and the decree of the trial court was ...
... error , vs. Frazier et al . , defend- ants in error , 5 Ill . 55. O. B. Ficklin appeared for the plaintiffs in error and Mr. Lincoln for the defendants in error . This was a bill in chancery and the decree of the trial court was ...
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... error , vs. Francis , 5 Ill . 421. This was a suit on a promissory note . Mr. Lincoln was associated with Stephen T. Logan for the defendant in error and the judgment of the Circuit Court was affirmed . This case in- volved several ...
... error , vs. Francis , 5 Ill . 421. This was a suit on a promissory note . Mr. Lincoln was associated with Stephen T. Logan for the defendant in error and the judgment of the Circuit Court was affirmed . This case in- volved several ...
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... error , Mr. Lincoln and Stephen T. Logan for the defendant in error . The case involved a question of practice and the decision of the Circuit Court was affirmed . 26. England , plaintiff in error , vs. Clark , 5 Ill . 486. Mr. Lincoln ...
... error , Mr. Lincoln and Stephen T. Logan for the defendant in error . The case involved a question of practice and the decision of the Circuit Court was affirmed . 26. England , plaintiff in error , vs. Clark , 5 Ill . 486. Mr. Lincoln ...
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Página 201 - Solon who had said that you can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Página 199 - Plainly the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Página 185 - Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia, and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest, with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force take a drink from the Ohio or make a track on the Blue Ridge in a trial of a thousand years.
Página 127 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known that any provision which may be adopted by such State government in relation to the freed people of such State which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be consistent as a temporary arrangement with their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the National Executive.
Página 192 - I just take up my pen to say that Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, a little, slim, pale-faced, consumptive man, with a voice like Logan's, has just concluded the very best speech of an hour's length I ever heard. My old, withered, dry eyes are full of tears yet.
Página 105 - American pledge his life, his property and his sacred honor — let every man remember that to violate the law is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the charter of his own and his children's liberty.
Página 200 - Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; is a positive good in the •world. That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise. Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Página 117 - I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality...
Página 161 - The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Página 129 - States after the rebellion shall have been suppressed, the executive deems it proper to say it will be his purpose then, as ever, to be guided by the Constitution and the laws ; and that he probably will have no different understanding of the powers and duties of the Federal Government relatively to the rights of the States and the people, under the Constitution, than that expressed in the inaugural address.