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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... votes were taken , by yeas and nays , in both branches of Congress , upon the various phases of the general ques- tion . Two of the " thirty - nine " -Rufus King and Charles Pinckney - were members of that Congress . Mr. King steadily voted ...
... votes were taken , by yeas and nays , in both branches of Congress , upon the various phases of the general ques- tion . Two of the " thirty - nine " -Rufus King and Charles Pinckney - were members of that Congress . Mr. King steadily voted ...
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... voted against Congressional prohibition of slavery in the federal territories , in the in- stances in which they acted upon the question . But for what reasons they so voted is not known . They may have done so because they thought a ...
... voted against Congressional prohibition of slavery in the federal territories , in the in- stances in which they acted upon the question . But for what reasons they so voted is not known . They may have done so because they thought a ...
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... votes in your section this very year . You will then begin to discover , as the truth plainly is , that your proof does not touch the issue . The fact that we get no votes in your section , is a fact of your making , and not of ours ...
... votes in your section this very year . You will then begin to discover , as the truth plainly is , that your proof does not touch the issue . The fact that we get no votes in your section , is a fact of your making , and not of ours ...
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