Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years and the War YearsReader's Digest Association, 1970 - 640 pages |
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Page 154
... Seward victory was in the air ; champagne fizzed at the Richmond House . Straw votes on all incoming railroad trains had given Seward over- whelming majorities . Michigan , Wisconsin , Min- nesota , were a unit for Seward , as were the ...
... Seward victory was in the air ; champagne fizzed at the Richmond House . Straw votes on all incoming railroad trains had given Seward over- whelming majorities . Michigan , Wisconsin , Min- nesota , were a unit for Seward , as were the ...
Page 189
... Seward wrote to his wife . Seward objected to Chase in the Cabinet , and on Saturday , March 2 , he had notified Lincoln he must " withdraw . " Lincoln on Monday wrote to Seward : " I feel constrained to beg that you will countermand ...
... Seward wrote to his wife . Seward objected to Chase in the Cabinet , and on Saturday , March 2 , he had notified Lincoln he must " withdraw . " Lincoln on Monday wrote to Seward : " I feel constrained to beg that you will countermand ...
Page 285
... Seward's foreign correspondence again . Trumbull pointed to the President's own admissions that important questions ... Seward ought to leave the Cabinet . Collamer said he did not know how his constitutents felt and he would not go ...
... Seward's foreign correspondence again . Trumbull pointed to the President's own admissions that important questions ... Seward ought to leave the Cabinet . Collamer said he did not know how his constitutents felt and he would not go ...
Contents
Wilderness Beginnings | 17 |
New Salem Days | 33 |
The Young Legislator | 49 |
Copyright | |
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