 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 173by Joseph Fort Newton - 1910 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Mayhew - Philosophy - 1997 - 180 pages
...the following passage from Lincoln's famous speech delivered June 16, 1858, at Springfield, 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... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - History - 2009 - 522 pages
...house. And so I told the Illinois Republican convention — and the country beyond — that June night: "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... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...made the entire quotation from that speech that I can make it from memory. I used this language : " 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.... | |
 | George Anastaplo - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 392 pages
...a national policy (pushed by Douglas) opening up all the Territories to slavery. Lincoln had 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... | |
 | Bertrand Russell - History - 2001 - 532 pages
...senatorial contest with Douglas. Speaking of the Nebraska policy, he said, on accepting nomination: We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated, * Nicolay and Hay, op. cit., I, pp. 391-2. with the avowed object and confident promise... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...friends behind closed doors to gauge their reaction, and its words were terse, precise, and cutting. 213 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... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 456 pages
...which I delivered at Springfield, which I believe I can quote correctly from memory. I said there that "we are now far into the fifth year since a policy was instituted for the avowed object, and with the confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation... | |
 | Thomas E. Schneider - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 241 pages
...Nebraska controversy at the start of his senatorial campaign against Douglas in 1858, Lincoln had 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 292 pages
...quote at length the whole paragraph in which the expressions which puzzle you occur. It is as follows: "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... | |
 | Philip L. Ostergard - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 293 pages
...augmenting the J £ O _T OJOO happiness and value of life to all people, of all colors, everywhere. . . . 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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