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 DeathIncludes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... South Carolina . - Formation of the Rebel Confederacy . - The Objects of Secession . - Secession Movements in Washington . - Debates in Congress . - The Crittenden Resolutions . - Con- ciliatory Action of Congress . - The Peace ...
... South Carolina . - Formation of the Rebel Confederacy . - The Objects of Secession . - Secession Movements in Washington . - Debates in Congress . - The Crittenden Resolutions . - Con- ciliatory Action of Congress . - The Peace ...
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... south and west , and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east . 5th . Whether the people of that settlement , or a majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the ...
... south and west , and by wide uninhabited regions on the north and east . 5th . Whether the people of that settlement , or a majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the ...
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... South , which he has since been chiefly instrumental in humbling to the dust . He said : How to do something , and still not to do too much , is the desideratum Let each contribute his mite in the way of suggestion . The late Silas ...
... South , which he has since been chiefly instrumental in humbling to the dust . He said : How to do something , and still not to do too much , is the desideratum Let each contribute his mite in the way of suggestion . The late Silas ...
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... South . Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost com plete legal combination -- piece of machinery , so to speak - compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott ...
... South . Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost com plete legal combination -- piece of machinery , so to speak - compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott ...
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... South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of inviting ( as he expresses it ) the South to a war upon the North , for the purpose of nationalizing slavery . Now , it is singular enough , if you will carefully read ...
... South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of inviting ( as he expresses it ) the South to a war upon the North , for the purpose of nationalizing slavery . Now , it is singular enough , if you will carefully read ...
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