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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... Lives . He was assuming that Lincoln , like most boys in the West those days , had read Plutarch . When proofs of the book reached Lincoln , he sent for Scripps and said : " That paragraph wherein you state that I read Plu- tarch's Lives ...
... Lives . He was assuming that Lincoln , like most boys in the West those days , had read Plutarch . When proofs of the book reached Lincoln , he sent for Scripps and said : " That paragraph wherein you state that I read Plu- tarch's Lives ...
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... live , understood this question just as well , and even better , than we do now , " speak as they spoke , and act as they acted upon it . This is all Republicans ask - all Republicans desire — in re- lation to slavery . As those fathers ...
... live , understood this question just as well , and even better , than we do now , " speak as they spoke , and act as they acted upon it . This is all Republicans ask - all Republicans desire — in re- lation to slavery . As those fathers ...
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... live ; " while you with one accord reject , and scout , and spit upon that old policy , and insist upon substituting something new . True , you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be . You are divided on new ...
... live ; " while you with one accord reject , and scout , and spit upon that old policy , and insist upon substituting something new . True , you disagree among yourselves as to what that substitute shall be . You are divided on new ...
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