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... adopt the ingenious expedient of lightening it by boring a hole in the end that hung over the dam and letting out the water-an incident which Mr. Douglas humorously turned to account in one of his speeches. The boat stuck there stubborn ...
... adopt the ingenious expedient of lightening it by boring a hole in the end that hung over the dam and letting out the water-an incident which Mr. Douglas humorously turned to account in one of his speeches. The boat stuck there stubborn ...
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... adopt his profession. "God never made a finer man," exclaimed the old backwoods-man, Close, when applied to for reminiscences of Lincoln. So by the testimony of all, and in the memory of everyone who has known him, Lincoln is a pure ...
... adopt his profession. "God never made a finer man," exclaimed the old backwoods-man, Close, when applied to for reminiscences of Lincoln. So by the testimony of all, and in the memory of everyone who has known him, Lincoln is a pure ...
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... adopted. An immediate attempt to reconsider proved ineffectual. The action upon reconsideration was postponed from day to day, until the 10th of January following, when Mr. Lincoln proposed that the committee should be instructed to ...
... adopted. An immediate attempt to reconsider proved ineffectual. The action upon reconsideration was postponed from day to day, until the 10th of January following, when Mr. Lincoln proposed that the committee should be instructed to ...
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... adopted at this Convention: "1. Resolved, That we believe this truth to be self-evident, that when parties become subversive of the ends for which they are established, or incapable of restoring the Government to the true principles of ...
... adopted at this Convention: "1. Resolved, That we believe this truth to be self-evident, that when parties become subversive of the ends for which they are established, or incapable of restoring the Government to the true principles of ...
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... , and assisted in their adoption. Lincoln met this earliest of a series of misrepresentations with prompt denial, and proved that he was not a member of the Convention. The actual Republican party of Illinois, dates its formation from.
... , and assisted in their adoption. Lincoln met this earliest of a series of misrepresentations with prompt denial, and proved that he was not a member of the Convention. The actual Republican party of Illinois, dates its formation from.
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1859 | |
OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 20 1848 | |
REPRESENTATIVES HALL SPRINGFIELD ILL JUNE | |
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LIVES & SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LI William Dean 1837-1920 Howells,John Lord 1812-1887 Hayes,Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln No preview available - 2016 |
LIVES & SPEECHES OF ABRAHAM LI William Dean 1837-1920 Howells,John Lord 1812-1887 Hayes,Abraham 1809-1865 Lincoln No preview available - 2016 |
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