Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings, Volume 1 |
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... Democratic notice . I now come to the proposition that it would be less secure than a national bank as a depository of the public money . The experience of the past , I think , proves the truth of this . And here , inasmuch as I rely ...
... Democratic notice . I now come to the proposition that it would be less secure than a national bank as a depository of the public money . The experience of the past , I think , proves the truth of this . And here , inasmuch as I rely ...
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... Democratic giant is here , but he is not now worth talking about . A. L. January 1 , 1840. - LETTER TO JOHN T. STUART . SPRINGFIELD , January 1 , 1840 . Dear Stuart : There is considerable disposition , on the part of both parties in ...
... Democratic giant is here , but he is not now worth talking about . A. L. January 1 , 1840. - LETTER TO JOHN T. STUART . SPRINGFIELD , January 1 , 1840 . Dear Stuart : There is considerable disposition , on the part of both parties in ...
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... Democratic party measure , because we have heretofore seen that party in full power , year after year , with many of their leaders making loud professions in favor of these projects , and yet doing nothing . What reason , then , is ...
... Democratic party measure , because we have heretofore seen that party in full power , year after year , with many of their leaders making loud professions in favor of these projects , and yet doing nothing . What reason , then , is ...
Page 77
... Democratic vote had not increased any . Beaten almost everywhere for members of the legislature , -Tazewell , with her four hundred Whig majority , sending a delegation half Democratic ; Vermillion , with her five hundred , doing the ...
... Democratic vote had not increased any . Beaten almost everywhere for members of the legislature , -Tazewell , with her four hundred Whig majority , sending a delegation half Democratic ; Vermillion , with her five hundred , doing the ...
Page 78
... Democratic votes than they did then , but by giving fewer Whig . Bouck , who was elected Demo- cratic governor of New York last fall by more than 15,000 majority , had not then as many votes as he had in 1840 , when he was beaten by ...
... Democratic votes than they did then , but by giving fewer Whig . Bouck , who was elected Demo- cratic governor of New York last fall by more than 15,000 majority , had not then as many votes as he had in 1840 , when he was beaten by ...
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