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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... true when you wrote it , for up to that moment in my life I had never seen that early con- tribution to human history ; but I want your book , even if it is nothing more than a campaign sketch , to be faith- ful to the facts ; and in ...
... true when you wrote it , for up to that moment in my life I had never seen that early con- tribution to human history ; but I want your book , even if it is nothing more than a campaign sketch , to be faith- ful to the facts ; and in ...
Page 116
... true of Douglas , and is not true of “ Demo- crats " generally ; so that the proposed substitution would be a very considerable blunder . Your proposed insertion of " residences " though it would do little or no harm , is not at all ...
... true of Douglas , and is not true of “ Demo- crats " generally ; so that the proposed substitution would be a very considerable blunder . Your proposed insertion of " residences " though it would do little or no harm , is not at all ...
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... true men do care - such as Union appeals beseeching true Union men to yield to Disunion- ists , reversing the divine rule , and calling , not the sinners , but the righteous to repentance - such as invocations to Washington , imploring ...
... true men do care - such as Union appeals beseeching true Union men to yield to Disunion- ists , reversing the divine rule , and calling , not the sinners , but the righteous to repentance - such as invocations to Washington , imploring ...
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