Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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Page 27
... Illinois , where rich lands were to be had cheap . Dennis Hanks and Levi Hall ac- companied the Lincoln family . The tall young woodchopper had just passed his twenty - first birthday , and it was he , in buckskin breeches and coonskin ...
... Illinois , where rich lands were to be had cheap . Dennis Hanks and Levi Hall ac- companied the Lincoln family . The tall young woodchopper had just passed his twenty - first birthday , and it was he , in buckskin breeches and coonskin ...
Page 73
... Illinois , who was arousing the West for slavery , he lashed and trampled upon the attempt to make Kansas a slave State . While trying to obtain the release of a free - born Illinois negro boy held by the au- thorities of Louisiana ...
... Illinois , who was arousing the West for slavery , he lashed and trampled upon the attempt to make Kansas a slave State . While trying to obtain the release of a free - born Illinois negro boy held by the au- thorities of Louisiana ...
Page 135
... Illinois Central Railway , had once deeply wounded him by declining to pay his lawyer's bill ; and that , in 1858 , while the Illinois Central refused Lincoln the most common courtesy , McClellan was accom- panying his rival , Douglas ...
... Illinois Central Railway , had once deeply wounded him by declining to pay his lawyer's bill ; and that , in 1858 , while the Illinois Central refused Lincoln the most common courtesy , McClellan was accom- panying his rival , Douglas ...
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