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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... friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , and begged him to come and preach a sermon over his mother's grave . Three months after , Parson Elkins came , and friends assembled , a year after her death , to pay a last tribute of ...
... friend of his mother's , a travelling preacher , and begged him to come and preach a sermon over his mother's grave . Three months after , Parson Elkins came , and friends assembled , a year after her death , to pay a last tribute of ...
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... friend and former colleague in the Legis- lature , Hon . John T. Stuart . Onc incident of his law practice we cannot refrain from narrating . When Lincoln first went out into the world to earn a living for himself , he worked for a Mr ...
... friend and former colleague in the Legis- lature , Hon . John T. Stuart . Onc incident of his law practice we cannot refrain from narrating . When Lincoln first went out into the world to earn a living for himself , he worked for a Mr ...
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... friend of Freedom for the Territories which he was afterwards during the heats of the Kan- sas struggle . Another instance in which the Slavery Question was before the House was in the famous Pacheco case . This was a bill to reimburse ...
... friend of Freedom for the Territories which he was afterwards during the heats of the Kan- sas struggle . Another instance in which the Slavery Question was before the House was in the famous Pacheco case . This was a bill to reimburse ...
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... friends of freedom gathered themselves together and rallied round her banner , to meet the con- flict which was plainly now closely impending , forced upon the people by the grasping ambition of the slave- holders . The political ...
... friends of freedom gathered themselves together and rallied round her banner , to meet the con- flict which was plainly now closely impending , forced upon the people by the grasping ambition of the slave- holders . The political ...
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... friend , " said he , " says it is an insult to the emigrants of Kansas and Nebraska to sup- pose that they are not able to govern themselves . We must not slur over an argument of this kind because it happens to tickle the ear . It must ...
... friend , " said he , " says it is an insult to the emigrants of Kansas and Nebraska to sup- pose that they are not able to govern themselves . We must not slur over an argument of this kind because it happens to tickle the ear . It must ...
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