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... accept office in Lincoln's cabinet , the Republicans would gain two points of the game . They would be able to inspire their fainting adherents with fresh courage , and to taunt the South with the old cry that the question after all was ...
... accept office in Lincoln's cabinet , the Republicans would gain two points of the game . They would be able to inspire their fainting adherents with fresh courage , and to taunt the South with the old cry that the question after all was ...
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... accept the Treasury , Lincoln adding that he was not " exactly prepared to offer it . " The rea- son for this half - offer was apparently not fully explained , though Chase would have been a poor student of politics if he failed to ...
... accept the Treasury , Lincoln adding that he was not " exactly prepared to offer it . " The rea- son for this half - offer was apparently not fully explained , though Chase would have been a poor student of politics if he failed to ...
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... accepted . Until this announcement only a few had been certain , despite the abundance of report , that Seward would ... accept . It does not please me . Up to today I had supposed that Dayton would be the man ; and it may all result in ...
... accepted . Until this announcement only a few had been certain , despite the abundance of report , that Seward would ... accept . It does not please me . Up to today I had supposed that Dayton would be the man ; and it may all result in ...
Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
Copyright | |
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