Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseLommis National Library Association, 1888 - 842 pages Written in 1864 by a political contemporary, this is a work of nineteenth-century American biographic literature. It contains Lincoln's most masterful speeches and writings, along with a contemporary history of the Civil War. |
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... Judge Bates , as Attorney - General .-- Death of Chief Justice Taney . - Mr . Chase his Successor . - Our Relations with Canada . The Reciprocity Treaty to Terminate . - Call for 300,000 more Sol- diers . Amendment of the Constitution ...
... Judge Bates , as Attorney - General .-- Death of Chief Justice Taney . - Mr . Chase his Successor . - Our Relations with Canada . The Reciprocity Treaty to Terminate . - Call for 300,000 more Sol- diers . Amendment of the Constitution ...
Page 60
... judges , of whom Mr. Douglas was one , were added to the Supreme Court of the State . This is now gen- erally felt to be a measure conferring little credit upon those concerned in concocting the scheme , and was never heartily approved ...
... judges , of whom Mr. Douglas was one , were added to the Supreme Court of the State . This is now gen- erally felt to be a measure conferring little credit upon those concerned in concocting the scheme , and was never heartily approved ...
Page 107
... judge , not being learned myself , came down upon us astonishingly . He spoke in what the Baltimore American calls the " scathing and withering style . " At the end of his second severe flash I was struck blind , and found myself ...
... judge , not being learned myself , came down upon us astonishingly . He spoke in what the Baltimore American calls the " scathing and withering style . " At the end of his second severe flash I was struck blind , and found myself ...
Page 122
... judge how much this , to him , painful truth , had to do with the change of policy adopted by him , in opposing the Lecompton Constitution , the legitimate fruit of the Kansas - Nebraska bill , and substantially approved by him in ...
... judge how much this , to him , painful truth , had to do with the change of policy adopted by him , in opposing the Lecompton Constitution , the legitimate fruit of the Kansas - Nebraska bill , and substantially approved by him in ...
Page 127
... Judge Douglas inter- rupted me to say that the principle of the Nebraska bill was very old ; that it originated when God made man , and placed good and evil before him , allowing him to choose for himself , being responsible for the ...
... Judge Douglas inter- rupted me to say that the principle of the Nebraska bill was very old ; that it originated when God made man , and placed good and evil before him , allowing him to choose for himself , being responsible for the ...
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LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN Joseph H. (Joseph Hartwell) 18 Barrett,Making of America Project No preview available - 2016 |
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