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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... wrote : " My parents were both born ... of undistinguished fam- ilies - second families , perhaps , I should say ... " " The state of society in which Abraham Lincoln was born and grew up , " wrote Charles G. Leland , one of Lincoln's ...
... wrote : " My parents were both born ... of undistinguished fam- ilies - second families , perhaps , I should say ... " " The state of society in which Abraham Lincoln was born and grew up , " wrote Charles G. Leland , one of Lincoln's ...
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... wrote to Cornelius F. McNeill on April 6 , 1860 , told what his answer was . Part of the letter read : 66 " ... I wrote that I could do it in February , provided they would take a political speech , if I could find time to get up no ...
... wrote to Cornelius F. McNeill on April 6 , 1860 , told what his answer was . Part of the letter read : 66 " ... I wrote that I could do it in February , provided they would take a political speech , if I could find time to get up no ...
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... wrote : " It is difficult for younger generations of Americans to believe that three months before Mr. Lincoln was nomi- nated for the presidency , he was neither appreciated nor known in New York . " ( Putnam's Abraham Lincoln , page ...
... wrote : " It is difficult for younger generations of Americans to believe that three months before Mr. Lincoln was nomi- nated for the presidency , he was neither appreciated nor known in New York . " ( Putnam's Abraham Lincoln , page ...
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