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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... later was to appoint Secretary of War , made no secret of his contempt for the “ long , lank creature from Illinois , " as he afterwards described him , " wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat , on the back of which perspiration had ...
... later was to appoint Secretary of War , made no secret of his contempt for the “ long , lank creature from Illinois , " as he afterwards described him , " wearing a dirty linen duster for a coat , on the back of which perspiration had ...
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... later Civil War general ] -the second will be in a few days by Mr. C. M. Clay [ Cassius Marcellus Clay , publisher of an abolitionist paper in Kentucky whom Lincoln later appointed Minister to Russia ] , and the third we would prefer to ...
... later Civil War general ] -the second will be in a few days by Mr. C. M. Clay [ Cassius Marcellus Clay , publisher of an abolitionist paper in Kentucky whom Lincoln later appointed Minister to Russia ] , and the third we would prefer to ...
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... later , Medill , its publisher , who was in Washington in his ca- pacity of secretary of the Illinois Republican State Com- mittee , sent the Tribune a dispatch that there was a mounting interest in Lincoln among Republican leaders at ...
... later , Medill , its publisher , who was in Washington in his ca- pacity of secretary of the Illinois Republican State Com- mittee , sent the Tribune a dispatch that there was a mounting interest in Lincoln among Republican leaders at ...
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