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On the 7th of September , the very day of the election , I predicted the duel which took place on the 13th of the same month , and on the 16th my poor friend died from a wound received at the hands of the proslavery Democrat leader ...
On the 7th of September , the very day of the election , I predicted the duel which took place on the 13th of the same month , and on the 16th my poor friend died from a wound received at the hands of the proslavery Democrat leader ...
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His two inaugurations were accompanied by apprehensions of his assassination , and the second was followed in a little more than a month by his murder . At the inauguration of March 4 , 1861 , I was present as Clerk of the House .
His two inaugurations were accompanied by apprehensions of his assassination , and the second was followed in a little more than a month by his murder . At the inauguration of March 4 , 1861 , I was present as Clerk of the House .
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On the 14th of the succeeding month of April , the murder planned four years before , and baffled by superior foresight , was executed , and Abraham Lincoln was dying from the pistol - shot of Booth . [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX .
On the 14th of the succeeding month of April , the murder planned four years before , and baffled by superior foresight , was executed , and Abraham Lincoln was dying from the pistol - shot of Booth . [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX .
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He was the leader of the Democracy in that exciting month , and though he gave no sign of his intention to join the rebel army , nobody was surprised when he was reported at Richmond , Virginia . Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ...
He was the leader of the Democracy in that exciting month , and though he gave no sign of his intention to join the rebel army , nobody was surprised when he was reported at Richmond , Virginia . Perhaps the most dramatic scene that ...
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Fight twelve months longer , and the already opening differences that you see between New England and the great Northwest will develop themselves . You have two confederacies now . Fight twelve months , and you will have three ; twelve ...
Fight twelve months longer , and the already opening differences that you see between New England and the great Northwest will develop themselves . You have two confederacies now . Fight twelve months , and you will have three ; twelve ...
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| Title | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney Library of American civilization |
| Author | John Wien Forney |
| Publisher | Harper, 1873 |
| Original from | Pennsylvania State University |
| Digitized | 10 Feb 2014 |
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