Owen Lovejoy, Abolitionist in Congress, Volume 10Rutgers University Press, 1967 - 493 pages |
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Page viii
... political abolitionism and led the struggle in the Illinois countryside and in the federal legislature . The cause for which he at first labored in minor parties eventually became the cause of the whole nation . Lovejoy died in 1864 ...
... political abolitionism and led the struggle in the Illinois countryside and in the federal legislature . The cause for which he at first labored in minor parties eventually became the cause of the whole nation . Lovejoy died in 1864 ...
Page 142
... political life in the state far more complex for hack politicians . If the sharp - minded New Englanders threw a kind of pepper into the political stew , the Germans with their democratic and socialist bent added the salt . In the last ...
... political life in the state far more complex for hack politicians . If the sharp - minded New Englanders threw a kind of pepper into the political stew , the Germans with their democratic and socialist bent added the salt . In the last ...
Page 190
... political gossip . But when Lincoln wrote to Lovejoy he was not relaying mere political gossip . He had reliable informa- tion that some of the judges and lawyers of the Eighth Circuit bar , notably Davis , Lamon , and Swett , opposed ...
... political gossip . But when Lincoln wrote to Lovejoy he was not relaying mere political gossip . He had reliable informa- tion that some of the judges and lawyers of the Eighth Circuit bar , notably Davis , Lamon , and Swett , opposed ...
Contents
The Murder of Elijah P Lovejoy | 3 |
Was I to Bewray the Wanderer? | 25 |
Renovate the State1840 to 1844 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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