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... IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 20, 1848. SPEECH IN REPLY TO JUDGE DOUGLAS, DELIVERED IN REPRESENTATIVES' HALL, SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JUNE 26, 1857. SPEECH DELIVERED AT COOPER INSTITUTE, FEBRUARY 27, 1860. SPEECH ...
... IMPROVEMENTS, IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 20, 1848. SPEECH IN REPLY TO JUDGE DOUGLAS, DELIVERED IN REPRESENTATIVES' HALL, SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JUNE 26, 1857. SPEECH DELIVERED AT COOPER INSTITUTE, FEBRUARY 27, 1860. SPEECH ...
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... improvements, then prevalent in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and in its sessions for a score of succeeding years, the Legislature was occupied by the discussion of various schemes for enhancing the prosperity of the State. The ...
... improvements, then prevalent in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and in its sessions for a score of succeeding years, the Legislature was occupied by the discussion of various schemes for enhancing the prosperity of the State. The ...
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... improvements, and his voice was for whatever project seemed feasible and practical. During his first term of service ... improvement of public roads; for the incorporation of various institutions of learning; for the construction of the ...
... improvements, and his voice was for whatever project seemed feasible and practical. During his first term of service ... improvement of public roads; for the incorporation of various institutions of learning; for the construction of the ...
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... improvements, as all the great Whigs did. And as Abraham Lincoln never sat astride of any fence, unless in his rail-splitting days; as water was never carried on both of his square shoulders; as his prayers to Heaven have never been ...
... improvements, as all the great Whigs did. And as Abraham Lincoln never sat astride of any fence, unless in his rail-splitting days; as water was never carried on both of his square shoulders; as his prayers to Heaven have never been ...
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... improvement of rivers and harbors. As a Western man, and as a man whom his own boating experiences had furnished with actual knowledge of the perils of snags and sawyers, he had always been in favor of a measure which commended itself ...
... improvement of rivers and harbors. As a Western man, and as a man whom his own boating experiences had furnished with actual knowledge of the perils of snags and sawyers, he had always been in favor of a measure which commended itself ...
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OF REPRESENTATIVES JUNE 20 1848 | |
REPRESENTATIVES HALL SPRINGFIELD ILL JUNE | |
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