Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... principles of Henry Clay , and enlarging especially on the feasibility and great advantage of making the San- gamon River navigable by steamboats to the vicinity of Springfield . Stress was also laid upon education under a public school ...
... principles of Henry Clay , and enlarging especially on the feasibility and great advantage of making the San- gamon River navigable by steamboats to the vicinity of Springfield . Stress was also laid upon education under a public school ...
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... principle , and , the better to impress this proposition , he uses a figurative ex- pression in these words : " The Democrats are vulnerable in the heel , but they are sound in the heart and head . " The first branch of the figure ...
... principle , and , the better to impress this proposition , he uses a figurative ex- pression in these words : " The Democrats are vulnerable in the heel , but they are sound in the heart and head . " The first branch of the figure ...
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... principles and habits of Lincoln to those of Douglas , as she avowed afterward ; and if she was also influenced by ambition , her political intuition - famous in later life — was not now at fault . To a friend of her girlhood she wrote ...
... principles and habits of Lincoln to those of Douglas , as she avowed afterward ; and if she was also influenced by ambition , her political intuition - famous in later life — was not now at fault . To a friend of her girlhood she wrote ...
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... had been positively acquired under the ratified treaty with Mexico . In whatever form the principle came before the House for action while he was a member , it was sustained by the vote of Abraham 92 LINCOLN AND HIS PRESIDENCY .
... had been positively acquired under the ratified treaty with Mexico . In whatever form the principle came before the House for action while he was a member , it was sustained by the vote of Abraham 92 LINCOLN AND HIS PRESIDENCY .
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... principle of the new Republican party , as yet neither formed nor foreseen . After saying he did not certainly know what General Taylor " would do as to the Wilmot Proviso , " he added : " I am a North- ern man , or , rather , a Western ...
... principle of the new Republican party , as yet neither formed nor foreseen . After saying he did not certainly know what General Taylor " would do as to the Wilmot Proviso , " he added : " I am a North- ern man , or , rather , a Western ...
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