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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... Issue of the Campaign - Unfortunate Circumstances - President's Speech at Union Meeting Comments - Operations in Virginia and Maryland - In the West and South- west ............... CHAPTER XIII . FREEDOM TO MILLIONS . Tribune Editorial ...
... Issue of the Campaign - Unfortunate Circumstances - President's Speech at Union Meeting Comments - Operations in Virginia and Maryland - In the West and South- west ............... CHAPTER XIII . FREEDOM TO MILLIONS . Tribune Editorial ...
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... issue of this contest with Douglas , seemingly a defeat , was destined in due time to prove a decisive triumph . Mr. Lincoln's reputation as a skillful debater and master of polit- ical fence was secure , and admitted throughout the ...
... issue of this contest with Douglas , seemingly a defeat , was destined in due time to prove a decisive triumph . Mr. Lincoln's reputation as a skillful debater and master of polit- ical fence was secure , and admitted throughout the ...
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... issue ; and this issue this question - is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood better than we . " Let us now inquire whether the ' thirty - nine , ' or any of them , ever acted upon this question ; and if they did ...
... issue ; and this issue this question - is precisely what the text declares our fathers understood better than we . " Let us now inquire whether the ' thirty - nine , ' or any of them , ever acted upon this question ; and if they did ...
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... issue , which I have been able to discover . " To enumerate the persons who thus acted , as being four in 1784 , three in 1787 , seventeen in 1789 , three in 1798 , two in 1804 , and two in 1819-20 - there would be thirty - one of them ...
... issue , which I have been able to discover . " To enumerate the persons who thus acted , as being four in 1784 , three in 1787 , seventeen in 1789 , three in 1798 , two in 1804 , and two in 1819-20 - there would be thirty - one of them ...
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... issue ; and the burden of proof is upon you . You produce your proof ; and what is it ? Why , that our party has no existence in your section - gets no votes in your section . The fact is substantially true ; but does it prove the issue ...
... issue ; and the burden of proof is upon you . You produce your proof ; and what is it ? Why , that our party has no existence in your section - gets no votes in your section . The fact is substantially true ; but does it prove the issue ...
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