Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... sides in the older States , but then rare in Kentucky . No public instruction was then available . For a time he and his sister walked a great distance to attend the school kept by a Catholic priest named Zachariah Riney - • possibly a ...
... sides in the older States , but then rare in Kentucky . No public instruction was then available . For a time he and his sister walked a great distance to attend the school kept by a Catholic priest named Zachariah Riney - • possibly a ...
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... side of the case he had seen excite his antipathy — when forced to an unwilling con- flict at Baton Rouge two years before . On his second trip he encountered enough of the worst visible features of slavery , beyond doubt , to excite a ...
... side of the case he had seen excite his antipathy — when forced to an unwilling con- flict at Baton Rouge two years before . On his second trip he encountered enough of the worst visible features of slavery , beyond doubt , to excite a ...
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... side of the river . These events happened while Lincoln was on his last flatboat expedition to New Orleans . He had scarcely returned from piloting " The Talis- man " back to Beardstown , in the spring of 1832 , when news came that ...
... side of the river . These events happened while Lincoln was on his last flatboat expedition to New Orleans . He had scarcely returned from piloting " The Talis- man " back to Beardstown , in the spring of 1832 , when news came that ...
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... side . Lincoln had over two hundred votes more than Stuart , and the two were the only Whigs elected . It may reasonably be imagined that a gentleman like Stuart more than once recalled , in the presence of his youthful colleague , what ...
... side . Lincoln had over two hundred votes more than Stuart , and the two were the only Whigs elected . It may reasonably be imagined that a gentleman like Stuart more than once recalled , in the presence of his youthful colleague , what ...
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... side . He unhesitatingly grappled with the stoutest arguments of the Democratic champions ; but a little by - play of less gravity probably gave more pleasure to the audience . One specimen will illustrate this feature of his speech ...
... side . He unhesitatingly grappled with the stoutest arguments of the Democratic champions ; but a little by - play of less gravity probably gave more pleasure to the audience . One specimen will illustrate this feature of his speech ...
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