The Life and Times of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Including His Speeches, Messages, Inaugurals, Proclamations, Etc., Etc |
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... citizens , from a place of humble obscurity to a position and a fame equalled only by that of Washing- ton . And the secret of his success was simply this , that he never , for one moment in all his varied experiences , forgot that he ...
... citizens , from a place of humble obscurity to a position and a fame equalled only by that of Washing- ton . And the secret of his success was simply this , that he never , for one moment in all his varied experiences , forgot that he ...
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... citizens from the town . When the prisoner and his mother entered , silence reigned as completely as though the house were empty . The foreman of the jury , in answer to the usual inquiry from the court , delivered the verdict of ' Not ...
... citizens from the town . When the prisoner and his mother entered , silence reigned as completely as though the house were empty . The foreman of the jury , in answer to the usual inquiry from the court , delivered the verdict of ' Not ...
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... citizens should have deemed him an appropriate man to repre- sent them in the national Congress . Accordingly , he was returned for the central district of Illinois , in the fall of 1846 , and took his seat in the House of ...
... citizens should have deemed him an appropriate man to repre- sent them in the national Congress . Accordingly , he was returned for the central district of Illinois , in the fall of 1846 , and took his seat in the House of ...
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... citizens of the District of Columbia , asking for the repeal of all laws upholding the slave trade in the District , a motion was made to lay it on the table , when Mr. Lincoln voted in the negative . Although he went with the majority ...
... citizens of the District of Columbia , asking for the repeal of all laws upholding the slave trade in the District , a motion was made to lay it on the table , when Mr. Lincoln voted in the negative . Although he went with the majority ...
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... citizens on our own soil . This position he believed to be false , and he accordingly attacked it in a resolution requesting the President to give the House information on that point ; which President Polk would have found as difficult ...
... citizens on our own soil . This position he believed to be false , and he accordingly attacked it in a resolution requesting the President to give the House information on that point ; which President Polk would have found as difficult ...
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