Abraham LincolnJ. M. Dent & Company, 1907 - 379 pages |
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... struggling farmer . Thomas Lincoln did not prosper at Knob Creek ; and when , after a spring planting of his three ... struggle at Knob Creek , Clay's fiery eloquence had carried his country- men into the second war with Great Britain ...
... struggling farmer . Thomas Lincoln did not prosper at Knob Creek ; and when , after a spring planting of his three ... struggle at Knob Creek , Clay's fiery eloquence had carried his country- men into the second war with Great Britain ...
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... struggle which went on in these States at the time of their admission to the Union . And although Indiana herself had entered as a free State , she had , in this district especially , been largely peopled by Kentuckians from over the ...
... struggle which went on in these States at the time of their admission to the Union . And although Indiana herself had entered as a free State , she had , in this district especially , been largely peopled by Kentuckians from over the ...
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... struggle of the Titans which issued in Clay's last great work , the Compromise of 1850 : he would have heard the clashing voices of union and disunion , -and of the great protagonists of the time in their hour of crisis : Calhoun ...
... struggle of the Titans which issued in Clay's last great work , the Compromise of 1850 : he would have heard the clashing voices of union and disunion , -and of the great protagonists of the time in their hour of crisis : Calhoun ...
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... struggle with slavery and secession which was growing every year more inevitable . His public utterances are sufficient evidence that he was not yet come into the full mastery of himself . Even at forty , the conflicting elements of his ...
... struggle with slavery and secession which was growing every year more inevitable . His public utterances are sufficient evidence that he was not yet come into the full mastery of himself . Even at forty , the conflicting elements of his ...
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... struggle with " that unfortunate source of discord - 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 ...
... struggle with " that unfortunate source of discord - 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 ...
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