Abraham Lincoln: A Biography, by Benjamin P. Thomas |
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Page 178
... Douglas and Seward had struck a bargain to re - elect Douglas to the Senate and make the shrewd New Yorker President in 1860. Republicans like Anson Burlingame and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts were reported to be courting Douglas ; and ...
... Douglas and Seward had struck a bargain to re - elect Douglas to the Senate and make the shrewd New Yorker President in 1860. Republicans like Anson Burlingame and Henry Wilson of Massachusetts were reported to be courting Douglas ; and ...
Page 188
... Douglas , with his doctrine of " don't care , ' was doing more than anyone else to prepare the public mind to accept such a decision . When it came , would Douglas acquiesce in it ? 99 Douglas regarded such a possibility as ridiculous ...
... Douglas , with his doctrine of " don't care , ' was doing more than anyone else to prepare the public mind to accept such a decision . When it came , would Douglas acquiesce in it ? 99 Douglas regarded such a possibility as ridiculous ...
Page 192
... Douglas's thinking , the accuracy of Lincoln's analysis becomes evident . Neither man favored Negro equality , though Lincoln was more liberal , as well as more uncertain , than Douglas on this point . Both deplored sectionalism . Both ...
... Douglas's thinking , the accuracy of Lincoln's analysis becomes evident . Neither man favored Negro equality , though Lincoln was more liberal , as well as more uncertain , than Douglas on this point . Both deplored sectionalism . Both ...
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The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor | 3 |
Young Man on His Own | 23 |
His Love Affairs | 44 |
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