Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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James Creelman. As young Lincoln grew taller his skill and strength as a woodchopper and railsplitter , and his willingness to do any kind of work , however drudging or menial - in spite of a natural meditative indolence - made him ...
James Creelman. As young Lincoln grew taller his skill and strength as a woodchopper and railsplitter , and his willingness to do any kind of work , however drudging or menial - in spite of a natural meditative indolence - made him ...
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... woodchopper worked so bravely , contained the Declaration of Independence , the Con- stitution of the United States and the Ordi- nance of 1787 , and he bound them on his heart like a seal and wore them till the hour of his cruel death ...
... woodchopper worked so bravely , contained the Declaration of Independence , the Con- stitution of the United States and the Ordi- nance of 1787 , and he bound them on his heart like a seal and wore them till the hour of his cruel death ...
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... woodchopper had just passed his twenty - first birthday , and it was he , in buckskin breeches and coonskin cap , who goaded on the oxen hitched to the clumsy wagon that creaked and lurched through the March mud and partly frozen ...
... woodchopper had just passed his twenty - first birthday , and it was he , in buckskin breeches and coonskin cap , who goaded on the oxen hitched to the clumsy wagon that creaked and lurched through the March mud and partly frozen ...
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