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Yesterday Douglas , having chosen to consider himself insulted by something in the " Journal , ” undertook to cane Francis in the street . Francis caught him 27 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Yesterday Douglas , having chosen to consider himself insulted by something in the " Journal , ” undertook to cane Francis in the street . Francis caught him 27 OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
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The whole affair was so ludicrous that Francis and everybody else ( Douglas excepted ) have been laughing about it ever since . You say my [ Letter to W. G. Anderson , Lawrenceville , Illinois , 31 October 1840. ] ...
The whole affair was so ludicrous that Francis and everybody else ( Douglas excepted ) have been laughing about it ever since . You say my [ Letter to W. G. Anderson , Lawrenceville , Illinois , 31 October 1840. ] ...
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[ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial governments ] on the judge's own ...
[ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial governments ] on the judge's own ...
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Judge Douglas frequently , with bitter irony and sarcasm , paraphrases our argument by saying : “ The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves , but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes !
Judge Douglas frequently , with bitter irony and sarcasm , paraphrases our argument by saying : “ The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves , but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes !
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Douglas introduced the Nebraska bill in January . In February afterward there was a called session of the Illinois legislature . Of the one hundred members composIt was 1 ing the two branches of that body ,. ness . was .
Douglas introduced the Nebraska bill in January . In February afterward there was a called session of the Illinois legislature . Of the one hundred members composIt was 1 ing the two branches of that body ,. ness . was .
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