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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... deliver -what I may term - a political lecture [ italics in origi- nal ] during the ensuing month . The peculiarities of the case are these - A series of lectures has been deter- mined upon - The First was delivered by Mr. Blair of St ...
... deliver -what I may term - a political lecture [ italics in origi- nal ] during the ensuing month . The peculiarities of the case are these - A series of lectures has been deter- mined upon - The First was delivered by Mr. Blair of St ...
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... deliver it . " A trip over that same route in 1864 was described by a British traveler as follows : 66 " ... This is one of the best roads in the United States and one of the speediest and most direct between the East and the West . It ...
... deliver it . " A trip over that same route in 1864 was described by a British traveler as follows : 66 " ... This is one of the best roads in the United States and one of the speediest and most direct between the East and the West . It ...
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... delivered to them in advance . But Lincoln had only one copy . What should he do ? The practice , McCormick told him ... deliver it . " He seemed wholly ignorant of the custom of supplying slips to the different journals from the office ...
... delivered to them in advance . But Lincoln had only one copy . What should he do ? The practice , McCormick told him ... deliver it . " He seemed wholly ignorant of the custom of supplying slips to the different journals from the office ...
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