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CONTENTS:

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 1 [Etext #2653] 1linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 2 [Etext #2654] 2linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 3 [Etext #2655] 3linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 4 [Etext #2656] 4linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 5 [Etext #2657] 5linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 6 [Etext #2658] 6linc10.txt

The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Vol 7 [Etext #2659] 7linc10.txt

The Entire Writings of Lincoln, [Etext #3253] lnent10.txt

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THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 1
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Abolition
Advice to Youth
Affected Contempt of Refinement
Always Inclined to Idealize That Which We Love
Attempt to Beguile You from Your Grief
Avoid Being Idle
Bad Laws
Bad Bargain
Beauty and Strength of Simplicity.
Could Not Afford to Make Money
Direct While Appearing to Obey
Education
Endeavoring to Blow up a Storm That He May Ride upon
Events Control Me; I Cannot Control Events
Falsehood
Farce
Father Abraham
Favor to Me Would Be Injustice to the Public
Fees We Earn at a Distance
Gals, Tied as Tight in the Middle
General Grant
Good, Bright, Passable Lie
His Parts Seemed to Be Raised by the Demands of Great Station
House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
I Can't Spare That Man, He Fights!
Idealization Which So Easily Runs into the Commonplace
If Slavery Is Not Wrong, Nothing Is Wrong
Ignored the Insult, but Firmly Established His Superiority
Inability to Say "No" as a Positive Weakness
Leave Us to Take Care of Ourselves
Let Us to the End Dare to Do Our Duty as We Understand It
Lincoln-Shields Duel
Lost Townships
Manifested His Courage to Stand Alone
Marriage,
Murder Case
National Bank
No Hanging after all
Not Meddling
Not One Slave or One Drunkard
Not Seldom Ragged, Usually Patched, and Always Shabby.
Not Appearing on the Appointed Wedding Day
One Long Step Removed from Honest Men
Patronizing If Not Contemptuous Condescension
Pay the Fiddler
Peace at Any Price Rose on All Sides
People Became Bound by a Genuine Sentimental Attachment
Plain People, Had to Furnish the Men for the Fighting
Political Smear
Posterity Has Done Nothing
President Polk
Professions Instead of Their Practices
Reorganization of the Judiciary
Revolutions Never Go Backward
Right Makes Might
Sale of Public Lands
Shift His Ground
Shortly You Are to Feel Well Again
Shut in with a Few Books and to Master Them Thoroughly
Silence Might Be Construed into a Confession
Silent Artillery of Time
Slavery
Sympathy Was the Strongest Element in His Nature
Take Advice with Candid Readiness
Taking Care to Cut His Expressions Close
Thought of Their Mind—articulated in His Tongue
Too Silly to Require Any Sort of Notice
Uncommon Power of Clear and Compact Statement
Voice Shrill and Piercing
Wear the Sweetest Idea Threadbare
Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy They First Make Mad
Widow v.s. Gen. Adams
You Work and Toil and Earn Bread and I'll Eat It

THE WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VOL 2
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Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia
Abolition Movement
Abolition Societies as Far South as Virginia
All Agreed on this Except South Carolina and Georgia
Allowing the People to Do as They Please
Amalgamation
Apportionment
Argument of "Necessity"
Autobiography
Benefit Only a Portion of Them
Benefits of That Double Position
Bill Granting Lands to the States
Blood Will Flow on Account of Nebraska
British
Brother's Hands Will Be Raised Against Brother!
Compromise Whenever You Can
Compromises
Continental Congress
Counterfeit Logic
Crime to Tell Him That He Is Free!
Danger of Third-parties
Declaration of Independence
Declaring the African Slave Trade Piracy
Dirge of One Who Has No Title to Himself
Disunionists
Dred Scott
Equality
Evasive with His Wife
Execrable Commerce
Father's Request for Money
Free All the Slaves, and Send Them to Liberia
Fugitive Slave Law
General of Splendidly Successful Charges
Government Was Made for the White People
Henry Clay
Hypocracy
Improvements
Inform a Negro of His Legal Rights
Interested Faultfinders
Just Leave Her Alone
Kings
Let the Slavery of the Other States Alone
Letters to Family Members
Locos
Loss of Primary for Senator
Mexico
Missouri Compromise
Mixing of Blood by the White and Black Races
Moderation
Mulattoes
National Bank
Nebraska Measure
Need Not Have Her for Either—I Can Just Leave Her Alone
Never Stir up Litigation
No Law, Is Free Law!
No Man can be Silent if He Would
Only One Vote, and That from New York, Was Against it
Opportunities for Young Politicians
Out-of-state Campaigners
Peoria Speech
Political Appointments
Political Jealousy
Politically and Socially Our Equals
Proneness of Prosperity to Breed Tyrants
Refund of Legal Charges
Repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Republican Position
Request for a Patent
Request for a Railway Pass
Request for General Land-Office Appointment
Response to a Pro-slavery Friend
Return to Law Profession
Revolutions Do Not Go Backward
Sacred Right of Self-government
Second Child
Should Be Permitted to Keep the Little He