Living Letters from American HistoryEdward Boykin |
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... Lincoln replies to Horace Greeley . 328 President Lincoln agrees to risk creating a dictator if General Hooker will win battles . 330 Lincoln writes to the workingmen of England 332 Stonewall Jackson writes his last message 334 " If it ...
... Lincoln replies to Horace Greeley . 328 President Lincoln agrees to risk creating a dictator if General Hooker will win battles . 330 Lincoln writes to the workingmen of England 332 Stonewall Jackson writes his last message 334 " If it ...
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... LINCOLN ACCEPTS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION Abraham Lincoln disapproved of John Brown's Raid . Said Lincoln , " It was so absurd that the slaves , with all their ignorance , saw plainly enough that it could not succeed . " With the ...
... LINCOLN ACCEPTS THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION Abraham Lincoln disapproved of John Brown's Raid . Said Lincoln , " It was so absurd that the slaves , with all their ignorance , saw plainly enough that it could not succeed . " With the ...
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... Lincoln for his delay in dealing with slavery . Greeley did not know it , but Lincoln had already prepared an Emancipation Proclamation which he had read to his Cabinet . Seward , Lincoln's Secretary of State , had advised delay . The ...
... Lincoln for his delay in dealing with slavery . Greeley did not know it , but Lincoln had already prepared an Emancipation Proclamation which he had read to his Cabinet . Seward , Lincoln's Secretary of State , had advised delay . The ...
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refuses to answer a letter and loses thirteen fine | 9 |
Benjamin Franklin makes a freak suggestion | 15 |
John Adams writes his wife news of the Declaration of Inde | 21 |
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