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... He saw the peculiar disadvan- tages of life for poor whites in a land where labor was degraded by slavery ; and he resolved that his children should be relieved from his own unsatisfactory lot of hopeless EARLY DAYS IN OBSCURITY . 11.
... He saw the peculiar disadvan- tages of life for poor whites in a land where labor was degraded by slavery ; and he resolved that his children should be relieved from his own unsatisfactory lot of hopeless EARLY DAYS IN OBSCURITY . 11.
Page 13
... slavery ; Mrs. Lincoln and her daughter riding one horse , Abe another , and the father a third . After a seven - days ' journey through an uninhabited country , their resting - place at night being a blanket spread upon the ground ...
... slavery ; Mrs. Lincoln and her daughter riding one horse , Abe another , and the father a third . After a seven - days ' journey through an uninhabited country , their resting - place at night being a blanket spread upon the ground ...
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... slavery . " The newspaper report of the first public men- tion of Abraham Lincoln as a rail - splitter is as follows : " During the sitting of the Republican State Convention at Decatur , a banner attached to two of these rails , and ...
... slavery . " The newspaper report of the first public men- tion of Abraham Lincoln as a rail - splitter is as follows : " During the sitting of the Republican State Convention at Decatur , a banner attached to two of these rails , and ...
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... slavery ; and he was now the citizen of a free State , where free labor had been placed under the safeguard of irreversi ble compact and fundamental law . And thus closed the youth of the future President , happy at least that he could ...
... slavery ; and he was now the citizen of a free State , where free labor had been placed under the safeguard of irreversi ble compact and fundamental law . And thus closed the youth of the future President , happy at least that he could ...
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... slavery - cursed people ; and the de- spairing cry of agony went up to heaven , in the tears and groans and prayers of long , long years , for a de- * Rev . A. Caldwell's Address . liverer . God heard those prayers ; and slowly to 28 ...
... slavery - cursed people ; and the de- spairing cry of agony went up to heaven , in the tears and groans and prayers of long , long years , for a de- * Rev . A. Caldwell's Address . liverer . God heard those prayers ; and slowly to 28 ...
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