 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pagini
...and the Dred Scott decision by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, as resembling the frame of a house: " When we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions...out at different times and places and by different wormmen, — Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance, — and we see these timbers joined... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1977 - 292 pagini
...fall. And why the hasty after indorsements of the decision by the President and others? We can not absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are...workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 1979 - 414 pagini
...Whigs had previously supposed. Lincoln employed the conspiracy paradigm in his House Divided speech: When we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions...workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of... | |
 | Gabor S. Boritt, Norman O. Forness - 1996 - 486 pagini
...Kansas-Nebraska bill, the Dred Scott decision, and the Lecompton fraud are the results of "preconcert," he said: "But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different...workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see that they exactly make the frame... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 pagini
...of a conspiracy to expand slavery, conceded Lincoln. "But when we see a lot of framed timbers . . . which we know have been gotten out at different times and places by different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1989 - 946 pagini
...fall. And why the hasty after indorsements of the decision by the President and others? We can not absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are...workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - 1991 - 474 pagini
...fall. And why the hasty after-indorsements of the decision by the President and others? We can not absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are...different workmen— Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James,2 for instance— and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the... | |
 | Garry Wills - 1992 - 324 pagini
...the separate acts of Stephen [Douglas] and Franklin [Pierce] and Roger [Taney] and James [Buchanan] : But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different...workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger, and James, for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of... | |
 | Priscilla Wald - 1995 - 418 pagini
...conspirators architects rather than authors, and their conspiracy is the framing of an alternative house: We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations...workmen— Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James, for instance— and we see these timbers joined together, and see they exactly make the frame of a house... | |
 | David Herbert Donald - 1995 - 724 pagini
...conspiracy. "But," he said, using an image familiar to every Illinois farmer who had ever raised a barn, "when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions...different workmen — Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James [ie, Douglas, Pierce, Taney, and Buchanan], for instance — and when we see these timbers joined together,... | |
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We cannot absolutely know that all these exact adaptations are the result of preconcert. But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places, and by different workmen — Stephen,... 
