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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... look . His gray eyes were sunk under an expansive brow . As Bowen took Lincoln's extended hand , he could not believe that his visitor was the Western politician , the prairie orator , who had entered the lists against the " Little ...
... look . His gray eyes were sunk under an expansive brow . As Bowen took Lincoln's extended hand , he could not believe that his visitor was the Western politician , the prairie orator , who had entered the lists against the " Little ...
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... look " of the speaker which , he said , " defy the reporter's skill . " Lincoln did not see the Evening Post that day because he left the city for New England before it appeared on the streets . It , too , had the speech in full under ...
... look " of the speaker which , he said , " defy the reporter's skill . " Lincoln did not see the Evening Post that day because he left the city for New England before it appeared on the streets . It , too , had the speech in full under ...
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... look into their acts and declarations on those other phases , as the foreign slave trade , and the morality and policy of slavery gen- erally , it would appear to us that on the direct question of federal control of slavery in federal ...
... look into their acts and declarations on those other phases , as the foreign slave trade , and the morality and policy of slavery gen- erally , it would appear to us that on the direct question of federal control of slavery in federal ...
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