Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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Page 118
... course , was large . He asked what would now be thought a quite moderate fee , but there was higgling about its payment . If we may trust the recollection of Mr. Herndon , the original account- exclusive of $ 250 received as a retainer ...
... course , was large . He asked what would now be thought a quite moderate fee , but there was higgling about its payment . If we may trust the recollection of Mr. Herndon , the original account- exclusive of $ 250 received as a retainer ...
Page 121
... course no complaint that was expected to go beyond the domestic circle in which this was a subject of conversation . * Between a case involving perhaps millions of dollars and the interests of agricultural producers throughout the ...
... course no complaint that was expected to go beyond the domestic circle in which this was a subject of conversation . * Between a case involving perhaps millions of dollars and the interests of agricultural producers throughout the ...
Page 126
... course . If All this skirmishing about Nebraska was little no- ticed outside of Washington . It produced little excite- ment even there , but served to introduce a new name , " Nebraska , " which later events were to make familiar . The ...
... course . If All this skirmishing about Nebraska was little no- ticed outside of Washington . It produced little excite- ment even there , but served to introduce a new name , " Nebraska , " which later events were to make familiar . The ...
Page 128
... course of their Southern fellow - partisans , who in a sectional caucus decided to support the Nebraska bill , were in a mood to welcome the obviously inevitable advent of a reorganization of parties . 128 LINCOLN AND HIS PRESIDENCY .
... course of their Southern fellow - partisans , who in a sectional caucus decided to support the Nebraska bill , were in a mood to welcome the obviously inevitable advent of a reorganization of parties . 128 LINCOLN AND HIS PRESIDENCY .
Page 136
... course of peace and prosperity seemed to lie before us . In the whole range of possibility , there scarcely appears to me to have been anything out of which the slavery agitation could have been revived , except the very project of ...
... course of peace and prosperity seemed to lie before us . In the whole range of possibility , there scarcely appears to me to have been anything out of which the slavery agitation could have been revived , except the very project of ...
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