Lincoln, His Life and Time: Being the Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States, Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages and Proclamations and Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and Death, Volume 1Thompson & Thomas, 1891 - 808 pages |
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... nation years after- ward . Yet so it proved to be . A writer , describing one of the incidents in the earlier political career of the late President , says : - During the sitting of the Republican State Convention , at Decatur , a ...
... nation years after- ward . Yet so it proved to be . A writer , describing one of the incidents in the earlier political career of the late President , says : - During the sitting of the Republican State Convention , at Decatur , a ...
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... nation which has been plunged into mourning by his sudden and violent death , would now regard as gratuitous and puerile any argument , the purpose of which should be to prove that Mr. Lincoln's action upon this Mexican question was ...
... nation which has been plunged into mourning by his sudden and violent death , would now regard as gratuitous and puerile any argument , the purpose of which should be to prove that Mr. Lincoln's action upon this Mexican question was ...
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... Nation and the States . In this way , and by these means , let the Nation take hold of the larger works , and the States the smaller ones ; and thus , working in a meeting direction , discreetly , but steadily and firmly , what is made ...
... Nation and the States . In this way , and by these means , let the Nation take hold of the larger works , and the States the smaller ones ; and thus , working in a meeting direction , discreetly , but steadily and firmly , what is made ...
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... nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong . We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger , with every external circumstance against us . Of strange , discordant , and even hostile elements , we ...
... nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong . We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger , with every external circumstance against us . Of strange , discordant , and even hostile elements , we ...
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... nation - such right to govern them . selves was called " Squatter Sovereignty . " Now I wish you to mark . What has become of that Squatter Sover- vignty ? What has become of it ? Can you get anybody to tell you now that the people of a ...
... nation - such right to govern them . selves was called " Squatter Sovereignty . " Now I wish you to mark . What has become of that Squatter Sover- vignty ? What has become of it ? Can you get anybody to tell you now that the people of a ...
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