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" We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. "
Lincoln and Herndon - Page 173
by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pages
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Readings in the History of the American Nation

Andrew Cunningham McLaughlin - United States - 1914 - 476 pages
...first know where we are and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to doit. We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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Political History of Secession to the Beginning of the American Civil War

Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 718 pages
...Senator. In this he sounded the keynote, not only of that but of the next presidential campaign. He said: "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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The Theory and Practice of Argumentation and Debate

Victor Alvin Ketcham - Debates and debating - 1914 - 400 pages
...quoted above touches lightly upon the origin and history of the question with the simple statement: "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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Official Report of the Proceedings of the Sixteenth Republican National ...

George Luzerne Hart - Campaign literature - 1916 - 398 pages
...walked out to the edge of the platform a man, tall and lean and angular, and this is what he said : "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. (Applause.)...
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Stephen A. Douglas

Louis Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1920 - 402 pages
...when he said in his speech accepting the Republican nomination for the senatorship, on June 16, 1858: "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise of putting an end to the slavery agitation....
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The Irresistible Movement of Democracy

John Simpson Penman - Democracy - 1923 - 754 pages
...movement. In the course of the debate, he had given expression to views which afterwards became famous. "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to Slavery agitation. Under...
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Parties and Party Leaders

Anson Daniel Morse - Political parties - 1923 - 320 pages
...quoted opening paragraph of Mr. Lincoln's speech before the Republican State Convention of Illinois: "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society

Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1924 - 574 pages
...before the Republican Convention of that state, Abraham Lincoln broke the silence with these words: We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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Ohio Archæological and Historical Quarterly, Volume 32

Ohio - 1924 - 770 pages
...new, north as. well as south." That was my sentiment at that time. In connection with it, I said : "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was inaugurated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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The Magazine of History: With Notes and Queries. Extra numbers

1924 - 616 pages
...as they soon furnished the text for his severe arraignment by Mr. Douglas in debate. The words are: "We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under...
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