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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Page 54
... officers should be elected by the Legislature , in joint convention . Though he had been but a little more than a year in the State , and was scarcely to be regarded as an expert in the profession of the law , Mr. Douglas presented ...
... officers should be elected by the Legislature , in joint convention . Though he had been but a little more than a year in the State , and was scarcely to be regarded as an expert in the profession of the law , Mr. Douglas presented ...
Page 65
... officers of the court and the volunteer attorney sat at the tea - table of their hotel , a messen- gs : announced that the jury had returned to their seats . All repaired immediately to the court - house , and while the prisoner was ...
... officers of the court and the volunteer attorney sat at the tea - table of their hotel , a messen- gs : announced that the jury had returned to their seats . All repaired immediately to the court - house , and while the prisoner was ...
Page 87
... officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever before been thought that men could not do ; after all this , this same President gives us a long message without ...
... officers and privates , regulars and volunteers , doing all that men could do , and hundreds of things which it had ever before been thought that men could not do ; after all this , this same President gives us a long message without ...
Page 111
... officers and privates on that occasion , I doubt not the proportion was different . I wish to do justice to all . I think of all those brave men as Ameri- cans , in whose proud fame , as an American , I , too , have a share . Many of ...
... officers and privates on that occasion , I doubt not the proportion was different . I wish to do justice to all . I think of all those brave men as Ameri- cans , in whose proud fame , as an American , I , too , have a share . Many of ...
Page 124
... officer to be elected , was but imperfectly made . In some parts of the State , there was even no distribution of tickets containing the name of this candidate . The result , even under these unfavorable circum- stances , and in spite ...
... officer to be elected , was but imperfectly made . In some parts of the State , there was even no distribution of tickets containing the name of this candidate . The result , even under these unfavorable circum- stances , and in spite ...
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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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