Illustrated Life, Services, Martyrdom, and Funeral of Abraham Lincoln ...: With a Portrait of President Lincoln, and Other Illustrative Engravings of the Scene of the Assassination, Etc. ...David Brainerd Williamson |
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... political defeat he engaged in the mercantile business , but in a few months sold out , and under the tuition of John Calhoun ( in later years President of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention ) became proficient in surveying , an ...
... political defeat he engaged in the mercantile business , but in a few months sold out , and under the tuition of John Calhoun ( in later years President of the Lecompton Constitutional Convention ) became proficient in surveying , an ...
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... political speakers receive . - MR . LINCOLN ELECTED TO CONGRESS - HIS VOTES AND SPEECHES DURING HIS CONGRESSIONAL TERM . In 1846 , Mr. Lincoln was elected to Congress from the Central District of Illinois , by a majority of over 82 LIFE ...
... political speakers receive . - MR . LINCOLN ELECTED TO CONGRESS - HIS VOTES AND SPEECHES DURING HIS CONGRESSIONAL TERM . In 1846 , Mr. Lincoln was elected to Congress from the Central District of Illinois , by a majority of over 82 LIFE ...
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... political opponents being in the majority , General Shields was chosen . From that time until 1854 , he confined himself almost exclusively to the practice of his profession , but in that year he again entered the political arena , and ...
... political opponents being in the majority , General Shields was chosen . From that time until 1854 , he confined himself almost exclusively to the practice of his profession , but in that year he again entered the political arena , and ...
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... political debater , and while he had made many enemies by his course upon the Nebraska bill , his personal popularity had been greatly increased by his independence , and by the opposition manifested to him by the Administration . His ...
... political debater , and while he had made many enemies by his course upon the Nebraska bill , his personal popularity had been greatly increased by his independence , and by the opposition manifested to him by the Administration . His ...
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... political belief , and contended nobly for the mastery . During the campaign , Mr. Lincoln paid the following tribute to the Declaration of Independence " These communities , ( the thirteen colonies , ) by their representatives in old ...
... political belief , and contended nobly for the mastery . During the campaign , Mr. Lincoln paid the following tribute to the Declaration of Independence " These communities , ( the thirteen colonies , ) by their representatives in old ...
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