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... and not having the express permission of anyone of them to do so , I have had some little difficulty in determining on which to inflict the task of reading what I now feel must be a most dull and silly letter ; but when I remembered ...
... and not having the express permission of anyone of them to do so , I have had some little difficulty in determining on which to inflict the task of reading what I now feel must be a most dull and silly letter ; but when I remembered ...
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It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first , else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation ? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like ...
It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first , else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation ? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like ...
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All decent slaveholders talk that way , and I do not doubt their candor . But they never vote that way . Al. though in a private letter or conversation you will express your preference that Kansas shall be free ...
All decent slaveholders talk that way , and I do not doubt their candor . But they never vote that way . Al. though in a private letter or conversation you will express your preference that Kansas shall be free ...
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Contents
POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To William H Herndon | 16 |
To John W Crisfield | 121 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln as Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 20 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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