History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... course of a year or two a Mr. Crawford , one of the set- tlers , opened a school in his own cabin , and Abraham's father embraced the opportunity to send him , in order that he might add some knowledge of arithmetic to his reading and ...
... course of a year or two a Mr. Crawford , one of the set- tlers , opened a school in his own cabin , and Abraham's father embraced the opportunity to send him , in order that he might add some knowledge of arithmetic to his reading and ...
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... course , held the right side , voting repeatedly against laying on the table without consideration petitions in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia , and against the slave - trade.i On the question of ...
... course , held the right side , voting repeatedly against laying on the table without consideration petitions in favor of the abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia , and against the slave - trade.i On the question of ...
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... course of public events . He had fought Slavery often enough to know what it was , and what the animus of its supporters was . It is not , therefore , likely that he was taken very much by surprise when the Nebraska Bill was intro ...
... course of public events . He had fought Slavery often enough to know what it was , and what the animus of its supporters was . It is not , therefore , likely that he was taken very much by surprise when the Nebraska Bill was intro ...
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... course . Mr. Douglas had always claimed to have voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise because he sus- tained the “ great principle " of Popular Sovereignty , and desired that the inhabitants of Kansas and Ne- braska should ...
... course . Mr. Douglas had always claimed to have voted for the repeal of the Missouri Compromise because he sus- tained the “ great principle " of Popular Sovereignty , and desired that the inhabitants of Kansas and Ne- braska should ...
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... course , in such a posture of affairs , and Mr. Lincoln , in that spirit of patriotism which he has always shown , by his own personal exer- tions secured the votes of his friends for Judge Trum- bull , who was accordingly chosen ...
... course , in such a posture of affairs , and Mr. Lincoln , in that spirit of patriotism which he has always shown , by his own personal exer- tions secured the votes of his friends for Judge Trum- bull , who was accordingly chosen ...
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