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... United States from Washington to Benjamin Harrison , and her life has therefore been co- extensive with the establishment and growth of the United States . She will be buried on Tuesday next in the old family burying ground in Lincoln ...
... United States from Washington to Benjamin Harrison , and her life has therefore been co- extensive with the establishment and growth of the United States . She will be buried on Tuesday next in the old family burying ground in Lincoln ...
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... united , and it was a disgrace and re- proach to countenance divorce . Men and women married each other for love - now in many cases for money and position . These comments may be a little out of place here , but the facts as I knew ...
... united , and it was a disgrace and re- proach to countenance divorce . Men and women married each other for love - now in many cases for money and position . These comments may be a little out of place here , but the facts as I knew ...
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... United States . If ever there was a self - made man in this country , John Brooks Henderson was that man . He rose from absolute poverty to affluence , and from an uneducated youth to a great scholar , from a student of law while he ...
... United States . If ever there was a self - made man in this country , John Brooks Henderson was that man . He rose from absolute poverty to affluence , and from an uneducated youth to a great scholar , from a student of law while he ...
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... United States , with an uncompromising hatred . When we returned from the service I was accosted by the Judge , who asked me if I had heard anything new at the church . I answered " Yes , " and proceeded to say how perfectly appropriate ...
... United States , with an uncompromising hatred . When we returned from the service I was accosted by the Judge , who asked me if I had heard anything new at the church . I answered " Yes , " and proceeded to say how perfectly appropriate ...
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... decision in the Dred Scott case had been made by the Supreme Court of the United States , in which it denied to Scott , a negro , the right of freedom . The Court was bitterly assailed by some for its decision , and vigor- 1858-1860 75.
... decision in the Dred Scott case had been made by the Supreme Court of the United States , in which it denied to Scott , a negro , the right of freedom . The Court was bitterly assailed by some for its decision , and vigor- 1858-1860 75.
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