Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsThis biography is drawn from the six volume work on Lincoln and new research uncovered since the original publication. |
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... spoke against certain internal improve- ments as unconstitutional ; Horace Greeley wrote to his New York Tribune that " Hon . Abraham Lincoln , a tall specimen of an Illinoisan . . . was called out , and spoke briefly and happily ...
... spoke against certain internal improve- ments as unconstitutional ; Horace Greeley wrote to his New York Tribune that " Hon . Abraham Lincoln , a tall specimen of an Illinoisan . . . was called out , and spoke briefly and happily ...
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... spoke at Princeton with Lovejoy who was running for Congress , and at several meetings was joined with Senator Trumbull and William “ Deacon " Bross of the Chicago Daily Demo- cratic Press . He spoke at Atlanta [ Illinois ] in early ...
... spoke at Princeton with Lovejoy who was running for Congress , and at several meetings was joined with Senator Trumbull and William “ Deacon " Bross of the Chicago Daily Demo- cratic Press . He spoke at Atlanta [ Illinois ] in early ...
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... spoke across the Northern States ; Lincoln went to the railway station to pay him a cordial greeting when he passed through Spring- field . Batteries and flotillas of orators spoke . They argued , threatened , prom- ised , appealed to ...
... spoke across the Northern States ; Lincoln went to the railway station to pay him a cordial greeting when he passed through Spring- field . Batteries and flotillas of orators spoke . They argued , threatened , prom- ised , appealed to ...
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Wilderness Beginnings | 3 |
New Salem Days | 22 |
The Young Legislator | 40 |
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