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... Senator Hamlin , back in Washington from the im- portant Chicago conferences , followed Lincoln's instructions and reported by letter . Hamlin had conferred with Preston King , junior Senator from New York , who functioned in the Senate ...
... Senator Hamlin , back in Washington from the im- portant Chicago conferences , followed Lincoln's instructions and reported by letter . Hamlin had conferred with Preston King , junior Senator from New York , who functioned in the Senate ...
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... Senator in the late ' forties , and was again elected to the Senate in 1857. Cameron's principles can be well described by utilizing a line from America's best- known opera bouffe : " a man who has for many years waged a ' New York ...
... Senator in the late ' forties , and was again elected to the Senate in 1857. Cameron's principles can be well described by utilizing a line from America's best- known opera bouffe : " a man who has for many years waged a ' New York ...
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... Senator.1 " Gen. C. has not been offered the Treasury and I think will not be . It seems to me not only highly ... Senate , and if that place has been promised to another [ Lincoln knew from the papers that it had ] let that other take a ...
... Senator.1 " Gen. C. has not been offered the Treasury and I think will not be . It seems to me not only highly ... Senate , and if that place has been promised to another [ Lincoln knew from the papers that it had ] let that other take a ...
Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
Copyright | |
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