Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... Louisiana country . Our former territorial acquisitions came from certain of our own States ; but this Louisiana country was acquired from a foreign nation . In 1804 , Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which ...
... Louisiana country . Our former territorial acquisitions came from certain of our own States ; but this Louisiana country was acquired from a foreign nation . In 1804 , Congress gave a territorial organization to that part of it which ...
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... Louisiana . The Missouri Question . but they did interfere with it - take control of it - in a more marked and extensive way than they did in the case of Mis- sissippi . The substance of the provision therein made , in relation to ...
... Louisiana . The Missouri Question . but they did interfere with it - take control of it - in a more marked and extensive way than they did in the case of Mis- sissippi . The substance of the provision therein made , in relation to ...
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... Louisiana , Mississippi , Arkansas , and Texas , 72 in all ; and Bell , 590,631 , and the votes of Virginia , Kentucky , and Tennessee , 39 in all . And now was to be tested whether words were to ripen into deeds - whether threats would ...
... Louisiana , Mississippi , Arkansas , and Texas , 72 in all ; and Bell , 590,631 , and the votes of Virginia , Kentucky , and Tennessee , 39 in all . And now was to be tested whether words were to ripen into deeds - whether threats would ...
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... Louisiana found wanting . Cabinet officers from the slave States either resigned , after having aided the fell work to their utmost , or remained only to hasten its consummation . A new constitu- tion , " temporary " in its nature , was ...
... Louisiana found wanting . Cabinet officers from the slave States either resigned , after having aided the fell work to their utmost , or remained only to hasten its consummation . A new constitu- tion , " temporary " in its nature , was ...
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... Louisiana , and Texas , by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary * course of judicial proceedings , or by the powers vested in the marshals by law ; now , therefore , 1 , ABRAHAM LINCOLN , Call for Troops . First ...
... Louisiana , and Texas , by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary * course of judicial proceedings , or by the powers vested in the marshals by law ; now , therefore , 1 , ABRAHAM LINCOLN , Call for Troops . First ...
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