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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... candidate who might lead the Republican forces to victory in the presidential election that would be held in November ? Lincoln was not New York's conception of how a statesman should look . " Mr. Bowen , I'm just in from Springfield ...
... candidate who might lead the Republican forces to victory in the presidential election that would be held in November ? Lincoln was not New York's conception of how a statesman should look . " Mr. Bowen , I'm just in from Springfield ...
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... candidate , Lincoln wrote him : " ... I must , in candor , say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency . " At a meeting later that year in the State House at Springfield , Norman B. Judd , chairman of the Republican State Committee ...
... candidate , Lincoln wrote him : " ... I must , in candor , say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency . " At a meeting later that year in the State House at Springfield , Norman B. Judd , chairman of the Republican State Committee ...
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... candidate for the United States Senate and was defeated . He had been a member of Congress yet few remembered that ... Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 , published in New York toward the end of 1859 by D. W. Bartlett . Nor was it ...
... candidate for the United States Senate and was defeated . He had been a member of Congress yet few remembered that ... Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 , published in New York toward the end of 1859 by D. W. Bartlett . Nor was it ...
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