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... position is not worth two cents ? For his own sake - for the sake of his position , his responsibilities , the crisis which his election has brought upon us , and for the sake of the Union - we respectfully ask him to speak out fully ...
... position is not worth two cents ? For his own sake - for the sake of his position , his responsibilities , the crisis which his election has brought upon us , and for the sake of the Union - we respectfully ask him to speak out fully ...
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... position whose only real qualification is a stentorian voice . " Smith himself , like Welles and Montgomery Blair , was kept in the dark concerning Lincoln's real intentions . He wrote to Congressman Elect George W. Julian on the second ...
... position whose only real qualification is a stentorian voice . " Smith himself , like Welles and Montgomery Blair , was kept in the dark concerning Lincoln's real intentions . He wrote to Congressman Elect George W. Julian on the second ...
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... position . He cooly tells the country that Mr. Lincoln's " antecedents are calculated to excite the fears of South Carolina ; " but he thinks " It should not be presumed in advance that he will fail to execute the fugitive slave law ...
... position . He cooly tells the country that Mr. Lincoln's " antecedents are calculated to excite the fears of South Carolina ; " but he thinks " It should not be presumed in advance that he will fail to execute the fugitive slave law ...
Contents
PREFACE V | 3 |
THE BATTLE OF FACTION | 152 |
COMPROMISES AND COMPROMISERS | 190 |
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