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... present Lincoln's exact language throughout , it could scarcely be placed with the other selections , but its personal and historical interest is so great that lovers of Lincoln will be glad to have it preserved in convenient form ...
... present Lincoln's exact language throughout , it could scarcely be placed with the other selections , but its personal and historical interest is so great that lovers of Lincoln will be glad to have it preserved in convenient form ...
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... present ; and quite half of you are not even de- scendants of those who were referred to at that day . But I suppose you will celebrate , and will even go so far as to read the Declaration . Suppose , after you read it once in the old ...
... present ; and quite half of you are not even de- scendants of those who were referred to at that day . But I suppose you will celebrate , and will even go so far as to read the Declaration . Suppose , after you read it once in the old ...
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... " policy , constitute the piece of machinery in its present state of advancement . This was the third point gained . The working points of that machinery are : ( 1 ) That no negro slave , imported as 28 Abraham Lincoln.
... " policy , constitute the piece of machinery in its present state of advancement . This was the third point gained . The working points of that machinery are : ( 1 ) That no negro slave , imported as 28 Abraham Lincoln.
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... present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown . We shall lie down pleas- antly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free , and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court ...
... present political dynasty shall be met and overthrown . We shall lie down pleas- antly dreaming that the people of Missouri are on the verge of making their State free , and we shall awake to the reality instead that the Supreme Court ...
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... present head of the dynasty ; and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point upon which he and we have never differed . They remind us that he is a great man , and that the largest of us are very small ones . Let this be ...
... present head of the dynasty ; and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point upon which he and we have never differed . They remind us that he is a great man , and that the largest of us are very small ones . Let this be ...
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