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In this I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis , or the lead mines , or the gold mines in California , but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home in Coles County .
In this I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis , or the lead mines , or the gold mines in California , but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home in Coles County .
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That Kansas will form a slave constitution , and with it will ask to be admitted into the Union , I take to be already a settled question , and so set- tled by the very means you so pointedly condemn . By every principle of law ever ...
That Kansas will form a slave constitution , and with it will ask to be admitted into the Union , I take to be already a settled question , and so set- tled by the very means you so pointedly condemn . By every principle of law ever ...
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Let us dili- gently apply the means , never doubting that a just God , in his own good time , will give us the rightful result . Yours very truly , A. LINCOLN 66 “ ...... . the plain truth . . . [ 192 ]
Let us dili- gently apply the means , never doubting that a just God , in his own good time , will give us the rightful result . Yours very truly , A. LINCOLN 66 “ ...... . the plain truth . . . [ 192 ]
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POSTMASTER LAWYER REPRESENTATIVE OF | 1 |
To Judge Stephen T Logan | 25 |
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| Title | The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: As Reflected in His Briefer Letters and Speeches |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | H. Jack Lang |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | World Publishing Company, 1965 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Sep 2008 |
| Length | 265 pages |
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