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The anti - slavery party was nonplussed for a while , and lost its bearings . Talk of secession of the North from the Union bubbled around Boston . A secession convention was called to meet at Worcester , but before the time came for ...
The anti - slavery party was nonplussed for a while , and lost its bearings . Talk of secession of the North from the Union bubbled around Boston . A secession convention was called to meet at Worcester , but before the time came for ...
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The Democrats , split asunder by a row within their party , nominated two candidates for President . The nominee of the Northern wing was Stephen A. Douglas , of Illinois , an extremely clever politician whose enormous capacity for ...
The Democrats , split asunder by a row within their party , nominated two candidates for President . The nominee of the Northern wing was Stephen A. Douglas , of Illinois , an extremely clever politician whose enormous capacity for ...
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They were the leaders of the Republican party , and Johnson had come into office as a Republican . He had lost the support of his party leaders . “ If something is not done , ” Thaddeus Stevens wrote to Sumner , “ the President will be ...
They were the leaders of the Republican party , and Johnson had come into office as a Republican . He had lost the support of his party leaders . “ If something is not done , ” Thaddeus Stevens wrote to Sumner , “ the President will be ...
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Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Meet General Grant |
| Author | William E. Woodward |
| Publisher | Liveright Publishing Corporation, 1946 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Oct 2006 |
| ISBN | 1404749136, 9781404749139 |
| Length | 524 pages |
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