Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... politics , and simultaneously with the change receive an office worth $ 3,000 a year , and then have to erect a lightning - rod over my house to protect a guilty conscience from an offended God . " Forquer had been a Whig , but changed ...
... politics , and simultaneously with the change receive an office worth $ 3,000 a year , and then have to erect a lightning - rod over my house to protect a guilty conscience from an offended God . " Forquer had been a Whig , but changed ...
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... politics , including James Shields , . Augustus C. French , Robert Smith , John Dougherty , William A. Richardson , and John A. McClernand . At both sessions Lincoln came forward more actively , gradually becoming recognized as the Whig ...
... politics , including James Shields , . Augustus C. French , Robert Smith , John Dougherty , William A. Richardson , and John A. McClernand . At both sessions Lincoln came forward more actively , gradually becoming recognized as the Whig ...
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... politicians felt able to bear . There was then little anti - slavery sentiment in Central and Southern Illinois , at any rate , to sustain a Representative in refusing obsequious submission to such resolutions . Yet Lincoln could not ...
... politicians felt able to bear . There was then little anti - slavery sentiment in Central and Southern Illinois , at any rate , to sustain a Representative in refusing obsequious submission to such resolutions . Yet Lincoln could not ...
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... Politics and Personalities . Lincoln was admitted to the bar " in the autumn of 1836. " He began practice at Springfield as partner of Major John T. Stuart in the following spring , his residence there beginning ( as he said to the ...
... Politics and Personalities . Lincoln was admitted to the bar " in the autumn of 1836. " He began practice at Springfield as partner of Major John T. Stuart in the following spring , his residence there beginning ( as he said to the ...
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... be rather thinking aloud than conversing , his mind wandering over a wide area , from his own obscure days and varied fortunes to higher topics of national life and human destiny 4 LAW - POLITICS - PERSONALITIES . 49.
... be rather thinking aloud than conversing , his mind wandering over a wide area , from his own obscure days and varied fortunes to higher topics of national life and human destiny 4 LAW - POLITICS - PERSONALITIES . 49.
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