Lincoln the Politician: How the Rail-splitter and Flatboatman Played the Great American Game |
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... thought that the true policy , but I have never said an unkind word of any one entertaining that opinion . I believe most of them were as sincerely the friends of our cause as I claim to be myself ; yet I thought they were mistaken ...
... thought that the true policy , but I have never said an unkind word of any one entertaining that opinion . I believe most of them were as sincerely the friends of our cause as I claim to be myself ; yet I thought they were mistaken ...
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... thought slavery right ; all we ask they could as readily grant , if they thought it wrong . Their thinking it right and their thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole contro- versy . Thinking it right as they ...
... thought slavery right ; all we ask they could as readily grant , if they thought it wrong . Their thinking it right and their thinking it wrong is the precise fact upon which depends the whole contro- versy . Thinking it right as they ...
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... thought , called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject . . . . All were present excepting Mr. Blair , the Postmaster - General , who was absent at the opening of the discussions , but came in subsequently . I said to the Cabinet that I had ...
... thought , called a Cabinet meeting upon the subject . . . . All were present excepting Mr. Blair , the Postmaster - General , who was absent at the opening of the discussions , but came in subsequently . I said to the Cabinet that I had ...
Contents
Shaky | 186 |
Three to One You Dont Get | 192 |
The Inside Track | 208 |
Copyright | |
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