Abraham Lincoln; a History, by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Volume 1Century Company, 1890 - United States |
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... passed a law for the incorporation of the town of Louisville , then containing some six hundred inhabitants . At the same session a law was passed confiscating the property of certain British subjects for the endowment of an institu ...
... passed a law for the incorporation of the town of Louisville , then containing some six hundred inhabitants . At the same session a law was passed confiscating the property of certain British subjects for the endowment of an institu ...
Page 150
... passed , in the Senate , unanimously , in the House with none but Lincoln and five others in the negative.1 No report remains of the many speeches which prolonged the debate ; they have gone the way of all buncombe ; the sound and fury ...
... passed , in the Senate , unanimously , in the House with none but Lincoln and five others in the negative.1 No report remains of the many speeches which prolonged the debate ; they have gone the way of all buncombe ; the sound and fury ...
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... passed , and the Senate had to face the many - pronged dilemma , either to defeat the Appropriation Bill , or to consent that the territories should be organized as free communities , or to swallow their protesta- tions that the ...
... passed , and the Senate had to face the many - pronged dilemma , either to defeat the Appropriation Bill , or to consent that the territories should be organized as free communities , or to swallow their protesta- tions that the ...
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