Life on the Circuit with Lincoln"Originally commenced as a pastime, and to please a circle of friends alone, success, in any degree, can only be hoped for, because of my vantage ground as an intimate and close friend of Mr. Lincoln, and because, by reason of such intimacy, of the novelty of some of the facts and deductions, and not, in any sense, by reason, but in spite of, its literary style or, rather, the lack thereof." -- preface |
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... Lecompton , " and the nether stone of Buchanan and his Lecompton constitution ; and the outlook was gloomy enough , for Douglas had just been officially endorsed by his own state ; had the support of the greatest Republican editor in ...
... Lecompton , " and the nether stone of Buchanan and his Lecompton constitution ; and the outlook was gloomy enough , for Douglas had just been officially endorsed by his own state ; had the support of the greatest Republican editor in ...
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... Lecompton Constitution . A reference to that joint debate will show the consterna- tion with which Douglas was paralyzed at this unexpected attack . Lincoln had become aroused and had taken the aggres- sive very decidedly ; and Douglas ...
... Lecompton Constitution . A reference to that joint debate will show the consterna- tion with which Douglas was paralyzed at this unexpected attack . Lincoln had become aroused and had taken the aggres- sive very decidedly ; and Douglas ...
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... Lecompton Constitution , toward Douglas ; he used to quote from the song ( then in common use ) , by Thomas H. Bayley , this verse : " Oh ! no , we never mention him ; His voice is never heard ; My lips are now forbid to speak That once ...
... Lecompton Constitution , toward Douglas ; he used to quote from the song ( then in common use ) , by Thomas H. Bayley , this verse : " Oh ! no , we never mention him ; His voice is never heard ; My lips are now forbid to speak That once ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 19 |
THE EMANCIPATOR IN EMBRYO | 33 |
ECCE HOMO | 48 |
Copyright | |
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