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Page 100
... political revolution of '76 we are all justly proud , " he says . " It has given us a degree of political freedom , far exceeding that of any other of the nations on the earth . In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted ...
... political revolution of '76 we are all justly proud , " he says . " It has given us a degree of political freedom , far exceeding that of any other of the nations on the earth . In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted ...
Page 108
... political speeches winding up with the following peroration : " The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the sup- port of a cause we believe to be just : it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the soul ...
... political speeches winding up with the following peroration : " The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the sup- port of a cause we believe to be just : it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the soul ...
Page 382
... political capital out of which they will make the most they can . They have probably not reached any conclusion as to the best market to operate on . We are kept as hostages for the good conduct of our friends and sympathizers at large ...
... political capital out of which they will make the most they can . They have probably not reached any conclusion as to the best market to operate on . We are kept as hostages for the good conduct of our friends and sympathizers at large ...
Contents
Harriet Beecher Stowe | 3 |
Calvin Stowe Francis Grierson The Battle Hymn | 59 |
Abraham Lincoln | 99 |
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Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War Edmund Wilson Limited preview - 1994 |
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