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... of the succeeding month of April , the murder planned four years before , and baffled by superior foresight , was executed , and Abraham Lincoln was dying from the pistol - shot of Booth . [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX . CIRCUMSTANCE often ...
... of the succeeding month of April , the murder planned four years before , and baffled by superior foresight , was executed , and Abraham Lincoln was dying from the pistol - shot of Booth . [ March 5 , 1871. ] IX . CIRCUMSTANCE often ...
Page 62
... of ex- citement , when it fairly glowed . Had McDowell lived during the war he would undoubtedly have been a ... Abraham Lincoln , a little more than a twelvemonth . I knew him well . He was as gen- erous as he was brave ; as ...
... of ex- citement , when it fairly glowed . Had McDowell lived during the war he would undoubtedly have been a ... Abraham Lincoln , a little more than a twelvemonth . I knew him well . He was as gen- erous as he was brave ; as ...
Page 86
... Abraham Lincoln was a character by himself , incomparable and unique . He was among the saddest of humanity , and yet his sense of the ridiculous was so keen that it bore him up from difficulties that would have broken down almost any ...
... Abraham Lincoln was a character by himself , incomparable and unique . He was among the saddest of humanity , and yet his sense of the ridiculous was so keen that it bore him up from difficulties that would have broken down almost any ...
Page 92
... of the southern side of the Poto- mac , and seems to answer : " Ten years ago this day my owner had just tendered an unstained sword , with a troubled heart , to his country's foe . Ten years ago Abraham Lincoln , Stephen A. Douglas ...
... of the southern side of the Poto- mac , and seems to answer : " Ten years ago this day my owner had just tendered an unstained sword , with a troubled heart , to his country's foe . Ten years ago Abraham Lincoln , Stephen A. Douglas ...
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... of the whole pro- slavery plot . Of course , a statesman bold and brave enough to take issue with an Administration determined upon such a wrong could not expect to escape the persecutions of the South , and so , after Abraham Lincoln ...
... of the whole pro- slavery plot . Of course , a statesman bold and brave enough to take issue with an Administration determined upon such a wrong could not expect to escape the persecutions of the South , and so , after Abraham Lincoln ...
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