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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... hands they had hewed their way to the positions for which their individual talents and peculiarities stamped them as best fitted . Children of nature , rather than of art , they have ever in their later years - amid scenes and associa ...
... hands they had hewed their way to the positions for which their individual talents and peculiarities stamped them as best fitted . Children of nature , rather than of art , they have ever in their later years - amid scenes and associa ...
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... hands , a successful trip to New Orleans and back was made . This city - then the El Dorado of the Western frontiersman - had been visited by the young man , in the same capacity , when he was nineteen years of age . Returning from this ...
... hands , a successful trip to New Orleans and back was made . This city - then the El Dorado of the Western frontiersman - had been visited by the young man , in the same capacity , when he was nineteen years of age . Returning from this ...
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... hand in hand with it , the Nebraska doctrine , or what is left of it , is to educate and mould public opinion , at least Northern public opinion , not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up . " This shows exactly where we now ...
... hand in hand with it , the Nebraska doctrine , or what is left of it , is to educate and mould public opinion , at least Northern public opinion , not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up . " This shows exactly where we now ...
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... of us . You will never make much of a hand at whipping us . If we were fewer in numbers than you , I think that you could whip us ; if we were equal it would His Cincinnati Speech . Visits the East . Cooper Institute BEFORE THE NATION . 35.
... of us . You will never make much of a hand at whipping us . If we were fewer in numbers than you , I think that you could whip us ; if we were equal it would His Cincinnati Speech . Visits the East . Cooper Institute BEFORE THE NATION . 35.
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... hands against us , or in our hands against you ? Could Washington himself speak , would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us , who sustain his policy , or upon you , who repudiate it ? We respect that warning of Wash- ington ...
... hands against us , or in our hands against you ? Could Washington himself speak , would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us , who sustain his policy , or upon you , who repudiate it ? We respect that warning of Wash- ington ...
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