The Struggle Of'72: The Issues and Candidates of the Present Political Campaign: Containing Biographical Sketches of All the Candidates for President and Vice-president; History and Platforms of the Great Political Parties; Facts about Public Men and Measures; Review of Grant's Administration; the Queer Record of Horace Greeley |
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... divisions , who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Comprom- ise , to the policy of the present Administration , to the extension of slavery into free territory ; in favor of admitting Kansas as a free State , of restoring the ...
... divisions , who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Comprom- ise , to the policy of the present Administration , to the extension of slavery into free territory ; in favor of admitting Kansas as a free State , of restoring the ...
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... division in the Democratic party which continued through the following presiden- tial campaign ; and , secondly , it was the indirect cause of that remarkable series of debates between Senator Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in 1858 ...
... division in the Democratic party which continued through the following presiden- tial campaign ; and , secondly , it was the indirect cause of that remarkable series of debates between Senator Douglas and Abraham Lincoln in 1858 ...
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... division , and which went to Mexico five hundred and eleven strong , one hundred and ninety perished in the campaign . In such a campaign it is obvious that a young officer need not lack opportunities to dis- tinguish himself . TWICE ...
... division , and which went to Mexico five hundred and eleven strong , one hundred and ninety perished in the campaign . In such a campaign it is obvious that a young officer need not lack opportunities to dis- tinguish himself . TWICE ...
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... divisions of the two great hostile hosts either of which swallowed up scores of armies , like that which we sent to Mexico . The campaigns of Scott and Taylor were thought to be very import- ant in their immediate political consequences ...
... divisions of the two great hostile hosts either of which swallowed up scores of armies , like that which we sent to Mexico . The campaigns of Scott and Taylor were thought to be very import- ant in their immediate political consequences ...
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... divisions of Gen- erals McClernand , C. F. Smith , and Lew . Wallace . The first of these was furiously attacked by a force of 10,000 rebels , hurled suddenly against them at day break . The engagement thus inaugurated was con- tinued ...
... divisions of Gen- erals McClernand , C. F. Smith , and Lew . Wallace . The first of these was furiously attacked by a force of 10,000 rebels , hurled suddenly against them at day break . The engagement thus inaugurated was con- tinued ...
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