Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... Convention - Democratic Convention - Constitutional Union Convention - Ballotings at Chicago - The Result - Enthusiastic Reception - Visit to Springfield - Address and Letter of Acceptance - The Campaign - Result of the Election -South ...
... Convention - Democratic Convention - Constitutional Union Convention - Ballotings at Chicago - The Result - Enthusiastic Reception - Visit to Springfield - Address and Letter of Acceptance - The Campaign - Result of the Election -South ...
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... Convention . The Ballot . Mr. Lincoln Nominated . on the slavery question , and the great party would thus be disrupted . Another convention , claiming to represent , in a peculiarly individual manner , the party in favor of the Con ...
... Convention . The Ballot . Mr. Lincoln Nominated . on the slavery question , and the great party would thus be disrupted . Another convention , claiming to represent , in a peculiarly individual manner , the party in favor of the Con ...
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... convention , upon the utterance of the first sentence of which a smile played round Mr. Lincoln's large , firm - set mouth , his eyes lit up , and his face conveyed to those who then for the first time met him , an impression of that ...
... convention , upon the utterance of the first sentence of which a smile played round Mr. Lincoln's large , firm - set mouth , his eyes lit up , and his face conveyed to those who then for the first time met him , an impression of that ...
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... Convention . " SIR : I accept the nomination tendered me by the Con- vention over which you presided , and of which I am formally apprised in the letter of yourself and others , acting as a Com- mittee of the Convention for that purpose ...
... Convention . " SIR : I accept the nomination tendered me by the Con- vention over which you presided , and of which I am formally apprised in the letter of yourself and others , acting as a Com- mittee of the Convention for that purpose ...
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... convention , composed of delegates from most of the Free States , and from all the border Slave States , was striving , at Washington , to heal existing difficulties by com- promise . Of its members some were acting in good faith ...
... convention , composed of delegates from most of the Free States , and from all the border Slave States , was striving , at Washington , to heal existing difficulties by com- promise . Of its members some were acting in good faith ...
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