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Page 54
... gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions . Hundreds of thousands of Democrats became Republicans when they saw the treatment that Reeder and Douglas , and their compatriots , had received ; but the oddest ...
... gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions . Hundreds of thousands of Democrats became Republicans when they saw the treatment that Reeder and Douglas , and their compatriots , had received ; but the oddest ...
Page 77
... gave liberally to the Union cause , without being a Republican . Though he did not unite with us when we sung " John Brown , " none could have been more graceful and ready in contributing to the general pleasure . One dramatic night I ...
... gave liberally to the Union cause , without being a Republican . Though he did not unite with us when we sung " John Brown , " none could have been more graceful and ready in contributing to the general pleasure . One dramatic night I ...
Page 86
... gave way to uncontrollable fits of grief in the dark hours of the war is a fact beyond question - that sometimes his countenance was clouded with sorrow , all who met him know ; and yet he could , so to speak , lift himself out of his ...
... gave way to uncontrollable fits of grief in the dark hours of the war is a fact beyond question - that sometimes his countenance was clouded with sorrow , all who met him know ; and yet he could , so to speak , lift himself out of his ...
Page 92
... gave force to the abolition of British surveillance in 1776. But it was more than this . It was the intellectual disenthralment of four millions of blacks and thir- ty millions of whites . It revolutionized the wicked work of ages of ...
... gave force to the abolition of British surveillance in 1776. But it was more than this . It was the intellectual disenthralment of four millions of blacks and thir- ty millions of whites . It revolutionized the wicked work of ages of ...
Page 107
... gave victory to the Republicans , carried Lincoln into the Presidential chair , and so maddened the South as to drive it into that rebellion , the defeat of which ended in the complete and eternal abolition of human slavery . So it will ...
... gave victory to the Republicans , carried Lincoln into the Presidential chair , and so maddened the South as to drive it into that rebellion , the defeat of which ended in the complete and eternal abolition of human slavery . So it will ...
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