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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... party . The prisoner , overwhelmed by the circumstances under which he found himself placed , fell into a melancholy condition bordering on despair , and the widowed mother , looking through her tears , saw no cause for hope from ...
... party . The prisoner , overwhelmed by the circumstances under which he found himself placed , fell into a melancholy condition bordering on despair , and the widowed mother , looking through her tears , saw no cause for hope from ...
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... party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President , I would not do it . But whenever they asked for any money or land - warrants or any thing to pay the soldiers there , during all that time I gave ...
... party tried to get me to vote that the war had been righteously begun by the President , I would not do it . But whenever they asked for any money or land - warrants or any thing to pay the soldiers there , during all that time I gave ...
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... party . He believed in the right of Congress to make appropriations for the improvement of rivers and harbors . He was in favor of giving the public lands , not to speculators , but to actual occupants and cultivators , at as low rates ...
... party . He believed in the right of Congress to make appropriations for the improvement of rivers and harbors . He was in favor of giving the public lands , not to speculators , but to actual occupants and cultivators , at as low rates ...
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... party - though they still called themselves Free Demo- crats . There was danger , of 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 ...
... party - though they still called themselves Free Demo- crats . There was danger , of 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 ...
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... They knew the man . They knew that on the cardinal principle of the Republican party , opposition to the spread of Slavery into the Territories , he was not with LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 3833 them ; for he 32 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... They knew the man . They knew that on the cardinal principle of the Republican party , opposition to the spread of Slavery into the Territories , he was not with LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 3833 them ; for he 32 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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