Lincoln the Politician: How the Rail-splitter and Flatboatman Played the Great American Game |
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Page 94
... friends should begin to return to me from Trumbull . So I determined to strike at once , and accordingly advised my remaining friends to go for him , which they did and elected him on the tenth ballot . Such is the way the thing was ...
... friends should begin to return to me from Trumbull . So I determined to strike at once , and accordingly advised my remaining friends to go for him , which they did and elected him on the tenth ballot . Such is the way the thing was ...
Page 105
... friends at Washington going over to the President's side , and his friends here and south of here talking as if there had never been any serious difficulty ; while the President himself does nothing for his own peculiar friends here ...
... friends at Washington going over to the President's side , and his friends here and south of here talking as if there had never been any serious difficulty ; while the President himself does nothing for his own peculiar friends here ...
Page 154
... friends I had in the canvass last year , I do not suspect a single one of having acted treacherously to me , or our cause ; and there is not one of them in whose honor and integrity I have more confidence today than in that of Mr. Judd ...
... friends I had in the canvass last year , I do not suspect a single one of having acted treacherously to me , or our cause ; and there is not one of them in whose honor and integrity I have more confidence today than in that of Mr. Judd ...
Contents
Shaky | 186 |
Three to One You Dont Get | 192 |
The Inside Track | 208 |
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