Life of Abraham Lincoln: Presenting His Early History, Political Career, and Speeches in and Out of Congress; Also a General View of His Policy as President of the United States; with His Messages, Proclamations, Letters, Etc., and a History of His Eventful Administration, and of the Scenes Attendant Upon His Tragic and Lamented DemiseLommis National Library Association, 1888 - 842 pages Written in 1864 by a political contemporary, this is a work of nineteenth-century American biographic literature. It contains Lincoln's most masterful speeches and writings, along with a contemporary history of the Civil War. |
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... rebellion . Jacob Thompson , without resigning , absented him- self on a tour in the South , throwing all the weight of his influence as a cabinet officer in favor of rebellion in his native State of North Carolina . Bold peculation was ...
... rebellion . Jacob Thompson , without resigning , absented him- self on a tour in the South , throwing all the weight of his influence as a cabinet officer in favor of rebellion in his native State of North Carolina . Bold peculation was ...
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... rebellion . The great insurrection is the uppermost thought - almost the exclu- sive theme of his inaugural address . That this was th wisest utterance of the time , manifesting a rare foresight , a well as a remarkable skill in briefly ...
... rebellion . The great insurrection is the uppermost thought - almost the exclu- sive theme of his inaugural address . That this was th wisest utterance of the time , manifesting a rare foresight , a well as a remarkable skill in briefly ...
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... rebellion , now fully organized at Montgomery , and manifestly emerging , with mad haste , into open hostilities . This work involved nice problems of foreign diplomacy , as well as prudent care , at once to avert divisions in the loyal ...
... rebellion , now fully organized at Montgomery , and manifestly emerging , with mad haste , into open hostilities . This work involved nice problems of foreign diplomacy , as well as prudent care , at once to avert divisions in the loyal ...
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... rebellion , when relieved of the disguises which Stephens had already stripped off in his anti - secession speech on the 19th of January , in the Georgia Convention . After proceeding at some length to point out the " Improve ments " he ...
... rebellion , when relieved of the disguises which Stephens had already stripped off in his anti - secession speech on the 19th of January , in the Georgia Convention . After proceeding at some length to point out the " Improve ments " he ...
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... rebellion , as stated in his Savannah speech by Mr. Stephens , after pronouncing these ideas of Jefferson and his contemporaries to be " fundamentally wrong , " as resting " upon the assumption of the equality of races : " Our new ...
... rebellion , as stated in his Savannah speech by Mr. Stephens , after pronouncing these ideas of Jefferson and his contemporaries to be " fundamentally wrong , " as resting " upon the assumption of the equality of races : " Our new ...
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