Abraham LincolnJ. M. Dent & Company, 1907 - 379 pages |
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... Buchanan - A House divided - Lincoln and Emancipa- tion - The Debates with Douglas - Lincoln loses the Senator- ship again . PAGE vii xiii I 30 61 92 114 138 163 CHAP . VIII . THE NATION CHOOSES Lecture on Discoveries xi.
... Buchanan - A House divided - Lincoln and Emancipa- tion - The Debates with Douglas - Lincoln loses the Senator- ship again . PAGE vii xiii I 30 61 92 114 138 163 CHAP . VIII . THE NATION CHOOSES Lecture on Discoveries xi.
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... 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 youth . But in the backwoods or ...
... 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 youth . But in the backwoods or ...
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... tion . " All his life , " writes one of his friends , 1 " he held that whatsoever was popular - the habit or the sentiment of the masses - could not be essentially wrong . " And we may add that a character like Lincoln's could hardly ...
... tion . " All his life , " writes one of his friends , 1 " he held that whatsoever was popular - the habit or the sentiment of the masses - could not be essentially wrong . " And we may add that a character like Lincoln's could hardly ...
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... tion in recalling his own violent words and actions . Throughout his life such reminiscences were peculiarly bitter to him . The chief of his youthful adventures , of which we have any record , was his trading expedition to New Orleans ...
... tion in recalling his own violent words and actions . Throughout his life such reminiscences were peculiarly bitter to him . The chief of his youthful adventures , of which we have any record , was his trading expedition to New Orleans ...
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... tion would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress , a gubernatorial or a presidential chair ; but such belong not to the family of the lion , or the tribe of the eagle . What ! think you these places would satisfy an Alex- ander ...
... tion would aspire to nothing beyond a seat in Congress , a gubernatorial or a presidential chair ; but such belong not to the family of the lion , or the tribe of the eagle . What ! think you these places would satisfy an Alex- ander ...
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