Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... South to get the wild red man across the Mississippi . To do this , and to keep him there , counted for the time as an effectual riddance . Black Hawk , a chief of the Sacs and Foxes , had when young gone to Iowa with his tribe , under ...
... South to get the wild red man across the Mississippi . To do this , and to keep him there , counted for the time as an effectual riddance . Black Hawk , a chief of the Sacs and Foxes , had when young gone to Iowa with his tribe , under ...
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... south . The next year he continued the study of law , begun at Cleveland , and took part in local politics . At this session an act , of which Douglas was an active lobby supporter , if not the originator , was passed , taking from the ...
... south . The next year he continued the study of law , begun at Cleveland , and took part in local politics . At this session an act , of which Douglas was an active lobby supporter , if not the originator , was passed , taking from the ...
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... South it had sprung from the roots of Nullification directly after that baneful growth had been felled to the ground . The dominant party in the Illinois Legislature , stimulated by a reference to the subject in President Jackson's ...
... South it had sprung from the roots of Nullification directly after that baneful growth had been felled to the ground . The dominant party in the Illinois Legislature , stimulated by a reference to the subject in President Jackson's ...
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... South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one , at a convenient distance from the others , so that the negroes were strung ...
... South . They were chained six and six together . A small iron clevis was around the left wrist of each , and this fastened to the main chain by a shorter one , at a convenient distance from the others , so that the negroes were strung ...
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... South in general then cared to adopt . Subsequent attempts fared likewise , but the case was not suffered to drop . Some months before the Presidential nominations were to be made , in 1844 , a letter adverse to annexation had been ...
... South in general then cared to adopt . Subsequent attempts fared likewise , but the case was not suffered to drop . Some months before the Presidential nominations were to be made , in 1844 , a letter adverse to annexation had been ...
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