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Title: Abraham Lincoln's stories and speeches : including "early life stories" : "professional life stories" : "White House incidents" : "war reminiscences," etc., etc. : also his speeches, chronologically arranged, from Pappsville, Ill., 1832, to his last speech in Washington, April 11, 1865 : including his inaugurals, Emancipation proclamation, Gettysburg address, etc., etc., etc. : fully illustrated
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 McClure, J. B. (James Baird), 1832-1895
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Publisher: Chicago : Rhodes & McClure Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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ay for it. Hereafter, if any nice man shallowe a bill which he can not pay in any other way, he canjust board it out. Mr; Speaker, we have all heard of the animal standingin doubt between two stacks of hay, and starving todeath; the like of that would never happen to GeneralCass. Place the stacks a thousand miles apart, he wouldstand stock-still, midway between them, and eat both atonce; and the green grass along the line would be apt tosuffer some, too, at the same time. By all means, makehim President, gentlemen. He will feed you bounteously—if—if there is any left after he shall have helped himself. But as General Taylor, is, par excellence, the hero ofthe Mexican war; and, as you Democrats say we Whigshave always opposed the war, you think it must be veryawkward and embarrassing for us to go for GeneralTaylor. THE MEXICAN W^AR. The declaration that we have always opposed the waris true or false acco.ding as one may understand theterm opposing the war. If to say the war was un-
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GEN. TAVLorS army NEAR PC;\-«J.\ TAPTL, IN MiiXICQ. (341) 342 Lincolns stories and speeches. necessarily and unconstitutionally commenced by thePresident, be opposing the war, then the Whigs have verygenerally opposed it. Whenever they have spoken at allthey have said this; and they have said it on what hasappeared good reason to them: The marching of anarmy into the midst of a peaceful Mexican settlement,frightning the inhabitants away, leaving their growingcrops and other property to destruction, to you may ap-pear a perfectly amiable, peaceful, unprovoking proced-ure; but it does not appear so to us. So to call such anact, to us appears no other than a naked, impudent ab-surdity, and we speak of it accordingly. But if, whenthe war had begun, and become the cause of the coun-try, the giving of our money and our blood, in com-mon with 3ours, was support of the war, then it is nottrue that we have always opposed the war. With fewindividual exceptions, you have constantly had our vote

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