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... United States Senate , 124 CHAPTER XI . ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY . Affairs in Kansas - Border Ruffians - Letter of Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Speed - State of the Slavery Question - Mr . Lincoln attends a State Convention at ...
... United States Senate , 124 CHAPTER XI . ORGANIZATION OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY . Affairs in Kansas - Border Ruffians - Letter of Mr. Lincoln to Mr. Speed - State of the Slavery Question - Mr . Lincoln attends a State Convention at ...
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... united them was physical courage and prowess . These fel- lows , although they embraced in their number many men who have since become respectable and influential , were wild and rough beyond toleration in any community not made up like ...
... united them was physical courage and prowess . These fel- lows , although they embraced in their number many men who have since become respectable and influential , were wild and rough beyond toleration in any community not made up like ...
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... United States troops on Rock Island , he returned a defiant message , and kept on . In this threatening aspect of affairs , Governor Reynolds issued a call for volunteers , and among the companies that immediately responded was one from ...
... United States troops on Rock Island , he returned a defiant message , and kept on . In this threatening aspect of affairs , Governor Reynolds issued a call for volunteers , and among the companies that immediately responded was one from ...
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... United States , viz : General ( then Colonel ) Zachary Taylor , and Abraham Lincoln . Mr. Lincoln never spoke of it as anything more than an interesting episode in his life , except upon one occasion when he used it as an instrument for ...
... United States , viz : General ( then Colonel ) Zachary Taylor , and Abraham Lincoln . Mr. Lincoln never spoke of it as anything more than an interesting episode in his life , except upon one occasion when he used it as an instrument for ...
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... United States . The Governor of Indiana , one of Offutt's acquaintances , said , after having a conversation with Lincoln , that the young man " had talent enough in him to make a President . " In every circle in which he found himself ...
... United States . The Governor of Indiana , one of Offutt's acquaintances , said , after having a conversation with Lincoln , that the young man " had talent enough in him to make a President . " In every circle in which he found himself ...
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