Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning PointStackpole Books, 2008 M06 13 - 400 páginas The pivotal speech that changed the course of Lincoln's career and America's history. Complete examination of the speech, including the full text delivered in 1854 in Peoria, Illinois. |
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... Chicago Congressman John Wentworth.59 Instead of uniting the Democratic Party, Douglas helped to divide it. Most free-soil Democrats would not support the repeal of the Missouri Compromise restriction on slavery. Whigs and antislavery ...
... Chicago Congressman John Wentworth.59 Instead of uniting the Democratic Party, Douglas helped to divide it. Most free-soil Democrats would not support the repeal of the Missouri Compromise restriction on slavery. Whigs and antislavery ...
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... Chicago, turned unfriendly. Both the antislavery clergy and journalists of Chicago attacked his role in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Douglas had written a group of Chicago ministers “that I differ with you widely, radically, and ...
... Chicago, turned unfriendly. Both the antislavery clergy and journalists of Chicago attacked his role in the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Douglas had written a group of Chicago ministers “that I differ with you widely, radically, and ...
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... Chicago Daily Democratic Press.65 Douglas “ began his speech , defending his course as well as he could , " wrote Nicolay and Hay . He claimed that the slavery question was forever settled by his great principle of “ popular sovereignty ...
... Chicago Daily Democratic Press.65 Douglas “ began his speech , defending his course as well as he could , " wrote Nicolay and Hay . He claimed that the slavery question was forever settled by his great principle of “ popular sovereignty ...
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... Chicago! It is now Sunday morning. I'll go to church and you may go to hell!” Douglas probably quit speaking long before midnight.71 The event was not a complete disaster for Douglas, noted Hay and Nicolay: “It was trum- peted abroad by ...
... Chicago! It is now Sunday morning. I'll go to church and you may go to hell!” Douglas probably quit speaking long before midnight.71 The event was not a complete disaster for Douglas, noted Hay and Nicolay: “It was trum- peted abroad by ...
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... Chicago , the more favorably Doug- las and his positions were received . In southern Illinois , Douglas was received as a visiting celebrity , according to biographer George Fort Mil- ton . “ In each place party leaders made elaborate ...
... Chicago , the more favorably Doug- las and his positions were received . In southern Illinois , Douglas was received as a visiting celebrity , according to biographer George Fort Mil- ton . “ In each place party leaders made elaborate ...
Contenido
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THE IDEAS AND ARGUMENTS 101 | 101 |
V THE ROAD FROM PEORIA 153 | 153 |
VI CHALLENGING DRED SCOTT THE SUPREME COURT AND DOUGLAS 189 | 189 |
VII PEORIA CHARACTERIZES THE LINCOLN PRESIDENCY 217 | 217 |
VIII CODA 257 | 257 |
Full Text of Speech at Peoria Illinois 289 | 289 |
Acknowledgments 329 | 329 |
Milestones in the Lives of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A Douglas 341 | 341 |
Notes 352 | 352 |
Bibliography 382 | 382 |
Index 396 | 396 |
Back Cover | 413 |
IX THE PEORIA SPEECH AND THE HISTORIANS RECORD 269 | 269 |
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Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point : Getting Right with the Declaration of ... Lewis E. Lehrman Vista de fragmentos - 2008 |
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