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... PERIOD THEIR EXCELLENCE AS ORATORS A PARTY LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . T ― - HENRY CLAY AS LINCOLN'S - - THE WRITER'S HE period extending from my first election to ...
... PERIOD THEIR EXCELLENCE AS ORATORS A PARTY LEADER EULOGIUMS ON LAWYERS ADMIRATION FOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT ADDRESS ON THE LAW AND LAWYERS . T ― - HENRY CLAY AS LINCOLN'S - - THE WRITER'S HE period extending from my first election to ...
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... period of excitement such as we shall probably not see again . Slavery in all its phases was the one topic of earnest discussion , both upon the hustings and at the fireside . There was little talk now of compromise . The old - time ...
... period of excitement such as we shall probably not see again . Slavery in all its phases was the one topic of earnest discussion , both upon the hustings and at the fireside . There was little talk now of compromise . The old - time ...
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... period that the late Governor Ford , speaking of Judge Young , whose district extended from Quincy , upon the Mississippi River to Chi- cago , - said : " He possesses in rare degree one of the high- est requisites for a good circuit ...
... period that the late Governor Ford , speaking of Judge Young , whose district extended from Quincy , upon the Mississippi River to Chi- cago , - said : " He possesses in rare degree one of the high- est requisites for a good circuit ...
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... period mentioned there were few law - books in the State . The monster libraries of later days had not yet ar- rived . The half - dozen volumes of State Reports , together with the Statutes and a few leading text - books , constituted ...
... period mentioned there were few law - books in the State . The monster libraries of later days had not yet ar- rived . The half - dozen volumes of State Reports , together with the Statutes and a few leading text - books , constituted ...
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... period . As late even as 1858 , when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate , when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate , and the excitement was for many months intense , there was never ...
... period . As late even as 1858 , when Lincoln and Douglas were rival aspirants to the Senate , when every voter in the State was a partisan of one or the other candidate , and the excitement was for many months intense , there was never ...
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