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Page 11
... Question - He seeks for the Posi- tion of Commissioner of the General Land Office , but fails , CHAPTER X. ..99 RETURN TO PRIVATE LIFE . - REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE . Mr. Lincoln returns to the Practice of his Profession - His ...
... Question - He seeks for the Posi- tion of Commissioner of the General Land Office , but fails , CHAPTER X. ..99 RETURN TO PRIVATE LIFE . - REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE . Mr. Lincoln returns to the Practice of his Profession - His ...
Page 13
... Question of Slavery - Mr . Lincoln's Regard for the Constitution and the Laws - He Recommends Gradual Emancipation - Conference with Members of Congress from the Border States - Address of the President - The Confiscation Act -Abolition ...
... Question of Slavery - Mr . Lincoln's Regard for the Constitution and the Laws - He Recommends Gradual Emancipation - Conference with Members of Congress from the Border States - Address of the President - The Confiscation Act -Abolition ...
Page 57
... question . One inter- ruption must have occurred in his work , though it was brief . His compass and chain were attached and sold to pay a debt of Berry's , for which he was surety , but they were bought by a man named James Short , who ...
... question . One inter- ruption must have occurred in his work , though it was brief . His compass and chain were attached and sold to pay a debt of Berry's , for which he was surety , but they were bought by a man named James Short , who ...
Page 59
... question ; and with this fact in mind we can measure the sacrifice which adherence to his convictions cost him . early love of Henry Clay has already been noticed ; and this love for the great Kentuckian , though circumstances modified ...
... question ; and with this fact in mind we can measure the sacrifice which adherence to his convictions cost him . early love of Henry Clay has already been noticed ; and this love for the great Kentuckian , though circumstances modified ...
Page 69
... their professed regard for the Constitution , and neither party doubted that the Constitution protected the institution of American Slavery . The agitation of the slavery question was just beginning to LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 69.
... their professed regard for the Constitution , and neither party doubted that the Constitution protected the institution of American Slavery . The agitation of the slavery question was just beginning to LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 69.
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