Abraham LincolnJ. M. Dent & Company, 1907 - 379 pages |
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... negro problem by the gradual emancipa- tion of the coloured people and their colonization abroad . The pertinacity with which in later years Lincoln clung to this policy seems to indicate that he had been convinced of its justice in his ...
... negro problem by the gradual emancipa- tion of the coloured people and their colonization abroad . The pertinacity with which in later years Lincoln clung to this policy seems to indicate that he had been convinced of its justice in his ...
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... negro robbers to its destination . The fascination of those weeks remained with him , and quickened that keen and permanent interest which he always showed in matters relating to the river . He could never doubt that it united all the ...
... negro robbers to its destination . The fascination of those weeks remained with him , and quickened that keen and permanent interest which he always showed in matters relating to the river . He could never doubt that it united all the ...
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... negro , " in which he and his family took the air . By 1830 , however , a change was entering into local politics : they had been swept by the political revolution which is associated with the name of President Jackson . Every national ...
... negro , " in which he and his family took the air . By 1830 , however , a change was entering into local politics : they had been swept by the political revolution which is associated with the name of President Jackson . Every national ...
Page 94
... negro lay in gradual emancipation ; that , as to this petition , it was in bad taste , and its subscribers had better mind their own business , the poor and needy at their very doors . The meeting cheered , the petitioners were ...
... negro lay in gradual emancipation ; that , as to this petition , it was in bad taste , and its subscribers had better mind their own business , the poor and needy at their very doors . The meeting cheered , the petitioners were ...
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... negro slavery , " - a struggle which issued in the Missouri Compromise of 1819. That Compromise closed the first great crisis caused by civil strife in the story of the Union - a crisis which , as Lincoln reminded his hearers , had ...
... negro slavery , " - a struggle which issued in the Missouri Compromise of 1819. That Compromise closed the first great crisis caused by civil strife in the story of the Union - a crisis which , as Lincoln reminded his hearers , had ...
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