Vulgar words in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 (Page 1)
This book at a glance
|
~ ~ ~ Sentence 750 ~ ~ ~
The driving a pirate from the track of commerce on the broad ocean, and the removing of a snag from its more narrow path in the Mississippi River, cannot, I think, be distinguished in principle.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,024 ~ ~ ~
[Applause:] But slavery will endure no test of reason or logic; and yet its advocates, like Douglas, use a sort of bastard logic, or noisy assumption it might better be termed, like the above, in order to prepare the mind for the gradual, but none the less certain, encroachments of the Moloch of slavery upon the fair domain of freedom.
~ ~ ~ Sentence 3,226 ~ ~ ~
And if you can do this in free Kansas, and it is allowed to stand, the next thing you will see is shiploads of negroes from Africa at the wharf at Charleston, for one thing is as truly lawful as the other; and these are the bastard notions we have got to stamp out, else they will stamp us out.