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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... friend and foe knew exactly where to find them . Unskilled in the doublings of the mere politician or the trimmer , they have borne themselves straight forward to the points whither their judgment and conscience directed . Such men may ...
... friend and foe knew exactly where to find them . Unskilled in the doublings of the mere politician or the trimmer , they have borne themselves straight forward to the points whither their judgment and conscience directed . Such men may ...
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... friends may suppose there is of black - cockade Federalism about me , and , thereupon , they should take me up as their candidate for the Presidency , I protest they shall not make fun of me as they have of General Cass , by attempt ...
... friends may suppose there is of black - cockade Federalism about me , and , thereupon , they should take me up as their candidate for the Presidency , I protest they shall not make fun of me as they have of General Cass , by attempt ...
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... been established ; his native talent as an orator had been developed ; his earnest zeal for his party had brought around him troops of friends ; * A lawyer . Settles at Springfield . Marriage . 2 BOYHOOD AND EARLY MANHOOD . 17.
... been established ; his native talent as an orator had been developed ; his earnest zeal for his party had brought around him troops of friends ; * A lawyer . Settles at Springfield . Marriage . 2 BOYHOOD AND EARLY MANHOOD . 17.
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... friends to go over in a solid body to Mr. Trumbull , a man of Demo- cratic antecedents , who could command the full vote of the anti - Nebraska Democrats ; and the latter was consequently elected . Mr. Lincoln was subsequently offered ...
... friends to go over in a solid body to Mr. Trumbull , a man of Demo- cratic antecedents , who could command the full vote of the anti - Nebraska Democrats ; and the latter was consequently elected . Mr. Lincoln was subsequently offered ...
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... friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amend- ment . " While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by The Dred Scott Case . In the Supreme Court . IN ...
... friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amend- ment . " While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by The Dred Scott Case . In the Supreme Court . IN ...
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