Abraham Lincoln Goes to New YorkStory of the country lawyer's first trip to sophisticated New York, and full text of famous Cooper Union speech he delivered there February 27, 1860. |
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... Senate were the renowned Daniel Webster , of New Hampshire ; Simon Cameron , of Pennsylvania ; Reverdy Johnson , of ... Senator from Illinois . James K. Polk was President , and James Buchanan was Secretary of State . Washington had a ...
... Senate were the renowned Daniel Webster , of New Hampshire ; Simon Cameron , of Pennsylvania ; Reverdy Johnson , of ... Senator from Illinois . James K. Polk was President , and James Buchanan was Secretary of State . Washington had a ...
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... senator of Iowa , that called for the organization of the Nebraska Territory . It was a region between the Rocky Mountains and the western boundaries of Missouri , Iowa and Minnesota which , because it lay north of Latitude 36 degrees ...
... senator of Iowa , that called for the organization of the Nebraska Territory . It was a region between the Rocky Mountains and the western boundaries of Missouri , Iowa and Minnesota which , because it lay north of Latitude 36 degrees ...
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... Senator Seward , a rude backwoodsman , unskilled in handling the reins of government , unfamiliar with state- craft ... Senate and was defeated . He had been a member of Congress yet few remembered that he was there . He had some suc ...
... Senator Seward , a rude backwoodsman , unskilled in handling the reins of government , unfamiliar with state- craft ... Senate and was defeated . He had been a member of Congress yet few remembered that he was there . He had some suc ...
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