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... Majority - His fitness for the Position - The old Wrig Party and the Mexican War - Mr . Lincoln's Resolutions - Mr . Hudson's Resolution - Mr . Lincoln's Speech , January 12th , 1848 - Defense of the Postmaster - general - Mr . Lincoln ...
... Majority - His fitness for the Position - The old Wrig Party and the Mexican War - Mr . Lincoln's Resolutions - Mr . Hudson's Resolution - Mr . Lincoln's Speech , January 12th , 1848 - Defense of the Postmaster - general - Mr . Lincoln ...
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... Majority of Congress sustain the Government- Mr. Crittenden's Resolution - Effect of the President's Inaugural and Message - Ap- pointment of General McClellan to the Command of the Army of the Potomac , 305 CHAPTER XX . FOREIGN ...
... Majority of Congress sustain the Government- Mr. Crittenden's Resolution - Effect of the President's Inaugural and Message - Ap- pointment of General McClellan to the Command of the Army of the Potomac , 305 CHAPTER XX . FOREIGN ...
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... majority of his neighbors . He de- termined , at any , possible sacrifice , to give his children the best education that the schools of the locality afforded . Mrs. Lincoln , the mother , was evidently a woman out of place among those ...
... majority of his neighbors . He de- termined , at any , possible sacrifice , to give his children the best education that the schools of the locality afforded . Mrs. Lincoln , the mother , was evidently a woman out of place among those ...
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... majority of the settlers around him were entirely illiterate , and when it became known that Mr. Lin- coln's boy could write , his services were in frequent request by them in sending epistolary messages to their friends . In the ...
... majority of the settlers around him were entirely illiterate , and when it became known that Mr. Lin- coln's boy could write , his services were in frequent request by them in sending epistolary messages to their friends . In the ...
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... majority . The most that could be said of his education was that he could " read , write and cipher . " He knew nothing of English grammar . He could not read a sentence in any tongue but his own ; but all that he knew , he knew ...
... majority . The most that could be said of his education was that he could " read , write and cipher . " He knew nothing of English grammar . He could not read a sentence in any tongue but his own ; but all that he knew , he knew ...
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