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... received ten letters asking for office.2 Between election day and November 20 Representative Wash- burne of Galena , Illinois , received not one letter which did not ask for an appointment , and during the rest of November his ...
... received ten letters asking for office.2 Between election day and November 20 Representative Wash- burne of Galena , Illinois , received not one letter which did not ask for an appointment , and during the rest of November his ...
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... received an invitation . " Although Mr. Cameron has a letter in his pocket signed ' A. Lincoln , ' announcing to him that he will be selected as the head of the War or Treasury Department , " he wrote , " advices arrive here ...
... received an invitation . " Although Mr. Cameron has a letter in his pocket signed ' A. Lincoln , ' announcing to him that he will be selected as the head of the War or Treasury Department , " he wrote , " advices arrive here ...
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... received five letters demanding no compromise , and nearly every day several messages arrived declaring , in vigorous terms , the same view . In more than a thousand pages of correspondence , Washburne received only two letters favoring ...
... received five letters demanding no compromise , and nearly every day several messages arrived declaring , in vigorous terms , the same view . In more than a thousand pages of correspondence , Washburne received only two letters favoring ...
Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
Copyright | |
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