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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... original Constitution ; and hence it is not recorded that the " thirty - nine , " or any of them , while engaged on that instrument , expressed any opinion of that precise question . In 1789 , by the first Congress which sat under the ...
... original Constitution ; and hence it is not recorded that the " thirty - nine , " or any of them , while engaged on that instrument , expressed any opinion of that precise question . In 1789 , by the first Congress which sat under the ...
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... original Con- stitution , North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee ; and a few years later Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama . In ...
... original Con- stitution , North Carolina ceded to the Federal Government the country now constituting the State of Tennessee ; and a few years later Georgia ceded that which now constitutes the States of Mississippi and Alabama . In ...
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... original Con- stitution ; and , for the same reason , I have also omitted whatever understanding may have been manifested by any of the " thirty - nine " even , on any other phase of the general question of slavery . If we should look ...
... original Con- stitution ; and , for the same reason , I have also omitted whatever understanding may have been manifested by any of the " thirty - nine " even , on any other phase of the general question of slavery . If we should look ...
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