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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... things had come , before Thomas arrived at maturity ; but in his boy- hood and youth , he must have known whatever was worst in the trials and penury of the first generation of Kentucky frontiersmen , with few other enjoyments than an ...
... things had come , before Thomas arrived at maturity ; but in his boy- hood and youth , he must have known whatever was worst in the trials and penury of the first generation of Kentucky frontiersmen , with few other enjoyments than an ...
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... thing was true of Illinois . organized in the same year with the birth of Abraham Lin- coln - 1809 . The next year's census showed its entire white population to be only 11,501 . These were almost exclusively located south of the ...
... thing was true of Illinois . organized in the same year with the birth of Abraham Lin- coln - 1809 . The next year's census showed its entire white population to be only 11,501 . These were almost exclusively located south of the ...
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... thing , which : the President calls by that big name , he can have it by turning to Niles ' Register , volume 50 , page 336. And if any one should suppose that Niles ' Register is a curious repository of so mighty a document as a solemn ...
... thing , which : the President calls by that big name , he can have it by turning to Niles ' Register , volume 50 , page 336. And if any one should suppose that Niles ' Register is a curious repository of so mighty a document as a solemn ...
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... thing but territorial indemnity , may be considered the no purposes and indefinite objects of the war ! But having it now settled that territorial indemnity is the only object , we are urged to seize by legislation here , all that he ...
... thing but territorial indemnity , may be considered the no purposes and indefinite objects of the war ! But having it now settled that territorial indemnity is the only object , we are urged to seize by legislation here , all that he ...
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... thing out of these lands with this incumbrance on them , or how remove the incumbrance ? I suppose no one will say we should kill the people , or drive them out , or make slaves of them , or even confiscate their property ! How , then ...
... thing out of these lands with this incumbrance on them , or how remove the incumbrance ? I suppose no one will say we should kill the people , or drive them out , or make slaves of them , or even confiscate their property ! How , then ...
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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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