The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death |
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... guarded and eagerly devoured . Among the volumes in Mr. Crawford's scanty library was a copy of Ramsay's Life of Washington , which Abraham secured permission upon one occasion , to take home with him . STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 21.
... guarded and eagerly devoured . Among the volumes in Mr. Crawford's scanty library was a copy of Ramsay's Life of Washington , which Abraham secured permission upon one occasion , to take home with him . STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 21.
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... occasion , to take home with him . During a severe storm he improved his leisure by reading his book . One night he laid it down carefully , as he thought , and the next morning he found it soaked through ! The wind had changed , the ...
... occasion , to take home with him . During a severe storm he improved his leisure by reading his book . One night he laid it down carefully , as he thought , and the next morning he found it soaked through ! The wind had changed , the ...
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... occasion . If Cass broke his sword , the idea is , he broke it in desperation . I bent the musket by accident . If General Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries , I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions ...
... occasion . If Cass broke his sword , the idea is , he broke it in desperation . I bent the musket by accident . If General Cass went in advance of me in picking whortleberries , I guess I surpassed him in charges upon the wild onions ...
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... occasion for lugging it in from the opposition to the Dred Scott decision . He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declaration of Inpependence includes ALL men , black as well as white , and forthwith he boldly denies that it ...
... occasion for lugging it in from the opposition to the Dred Scott decision . He finds the Republicans insisting that the Declaration of Inpependence includes ALL men , black as well as white , and forthwith he boldly denies that it ...
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... occasion to make a speech at this capital , indorsing the Dred Scott decision , and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it . The new president , too , seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to indorse and strongly construe ...
... occasion to make a speech at this capital , indorsing the Dred Scott decision , and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it . The new president , too , seizes the early occasion of the Silliman letter to indorse and strongly construe ...
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