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... questions at considerable length and with great skill . Then he leveled his own questions at Douglas , who sat on the tiny platform nonchalantly puffing a cigar . Loud applause surged up as he read out each question . After an extended ...
... questions at considerable length and with great skill . Then he leveled his own questions at Douglas , who sat on the tiny platform nonchalantly puffing a cigar . Loud applause surged up as he read out each question . After an extended ...
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... question that I was going to ask Judge Douglas about the power of squatters to exclude slavery from territories ? " And I replied that I recollected it very well . " Now , " said he , " don't you think I was right in putting that question ...
... question that I was going to ask Judge Douglas about the power of squatters to exclude slavery from territories ? " And I replied that I recollected it very well . " Now , " said he , " don't you think I was right in putting that question ...
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... question in this country , should so entirely ignore the whole of that portion of our history— the most important of all . Is it not a most extraordinary spectacle that a man should stand up and ask for any confidence in his statements ...
... question in this country , should so entirely ignore the whole of that portion of our history— the most important of all . Is it not a most extraordinary spectacle that a man should stand up and ask for any confidence in his statements ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Lincoln's Rise to Power: With Illustrations |
| Author | William Eldon Baringer |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company, 1937 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Jun 2008 |
| Length | 373 pages |
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