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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... practice in 1836 , admitted to the bar in 1837 and , in April of that year , moved to Springfield , which had just been made the state's capital , to become Stuart's law partner . He practiced with increasing success and served a sec ...
... practice in 1836 , admitted to the bar in 1837 and , in April of that year , moved to Springfield , which had just been made the state's capital , to become Stuart's law partner . He practiced with increasing success and served a sec ...
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... practice , McCormick told him , was to give the speech to a friendly newspaper which would put it in type and send proofs , or slips , as they were known at that time , to the other papers and thus enable all of them to have it before ...
... practice , McCormick told him , was to give the speech to a friendly newspaper which would put it in type and send proofs , or slips , as they were known at that time , to the other papers and thus enable all of them to have it before ...
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... practice . If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice , the fault is ours ; but this brings you to where you ought to have started - to a discussion of the right or wrong of our princi- ple . If our principle , put in practice ...
... practice . If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice , the fault is ours ; but this brings you to where you ought to have started - to a discussion of the right or wrong of our princi- ple . If our principle , put in practice ...
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