Abraham LincolnThis volume presents nearly 250 of Lincoln's most important speeches, state papers and letters in their entirety. Here are not only the masterpieces- the Gettysburg Address, the Inaugural Addresses, the 1858 Republican State Convention Speech and the Emancipation Proclamation - but hundreds of lesser-known ones, including excerpts from the Lincoln-Douglas debates, letters to Grant, McClellan, Stanton and his wife, and various meditations, verses and fragments. |
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... Washington act . If it was intended to be modelled after the Utah and New Mexico acts , as Judge Doug- las insists , why was it not inserted in it , as in them , that Wash- ington was to come in with or without slavery as she may choose ...
... Washington act . If it was intended to be modelled after the Utah and New Mexico acts , as Judge Doug- las insists , why was it not inserted in it , as in them , that Wash- ington was to come in with or without slavery as she may choose ...
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... Washington , April 9. 1862 Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sus- tained , while they do not offend me , do pain me very much . Blencker's [ sic ] Division was withdrawn from you before you left here ; and you knew ...
... Washington , April 9. 1862 Your despatches complaining that you are not properly sus- tained , while they do not offend me , do pain me very much . Blencker's [ sic ] Division was withdrawn from you before you left here ; and you knew ...
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... Washington , January. Van Hoesen , H. B. , The Humor of Lincoln and the Seriousness of His Biographers , 17 , 57n ... Washington Daily Chronicle , 773n . Washington , D. C. , 64 , 246 , 266 , 297 , 560n . , 589n . , 592n . , 638 , 644 ...
... Washington , January. Van Hoesen , H. B. , The Humor of Lincoln and the Seriousness of His Biographers , 17 , 57n ... Washington Daily Chronicle , 773n . Washington , D. C. , 64 , 246 , 266 , 297 , 560n . , 589n . , 592n . , 638 , 644 ...
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Speech in the United States House | 27 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
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