Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... South Mountain- and Williams- burg , Virginia , to which the journey was compara- tively easy . On the west were the great Alleghanies , and a world unknown beyond . Here pioneer life was to begin anew , without advantage from nearness ...
... South Mountain- and Williams- burg , Virginia , to which the journey was compara- tively easy . On the west were the great Alleghanies , and a world unknown beyond . Here pioneer life was to begin anew , without advantage from nearness ...
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... South American Liberator , visited England and our Republic , intent upon political schemes which were to have fruit on his own continent and in Mexico . Henry Clay was just rising to high rank in the party called Repub- lican , whose ...
... South American Liberator , visited England and our Republic , intent upon political schemes which were to have fruit on his own continent and in Mexico . Henry Clay was just rising to high rank in the party called Repub- lican , whose ...
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... South Carolina applicant , who owned two slaves , until he emancipated them , " which required expense addi- tional to the loss of his slaves . " During the year 1808 he said " some feeling existed in the bounds of the Con- ference " in ...
... South Carolina applicant , who owned two slaves , until he emancipated them , " which required expense addi- tional to the loss of his slaves . " During the year 1808 he said " some feeling existed in the bounds of the Con- ference " in ...
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... south than Louisville or St. Louis . Around its site the newcomers found a rich soil and much green turf beneath the forest trees , with some- times a luxurious undergrowth , forming almost impen- etrable thickets . Ferocious beasts ...
... south than Louisville or St. Louis . Around its site the newcomers found a rich soil and much green turf beneath the forest trees , with some- times a luxurious undergrowth , forming almost impen- etrable thickets . Ferocious beasts ...
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... South to get the wild red man across the Mississippi . To do this , and to keep him there , counted for the time as an effectual riddance . Black Hawk , a chief of the Sacs and Foxes , had when young gone to Iowa with his tribe , under ...
... South to get the wild red man across the Mississippi . To do this , and to keep him there , counted for the time as an effectual riddance . Black Hawk , a chief of the Sacs and Foxes , had when young gone to Iowa with his tribe , under ...
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