From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, practiced law more assiduously than ever before. Always a Whig in politics; and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise... Abraham Lincoln: A History - Página 298por John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890 - 470 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1887 - 996 páginas
...upon three pages of note-paper, he sketched the period at which we have arrived in these words : " From 1849 to 1854, both inclusive, I practiced law...good practice in Chicago; but he declined it on the * Among others John T. Stuart, who is our authority for this statement. be serviceable. Devoting himself... | |
| John Carroll Power - 1876 - 820 páginas
...Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses; I was losir.g interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. " If any personal description of me is thought desirable,... | |
| Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard - 1877 - 916 páginas
...before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making activo canvasses, I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known." The early residence of Lincoln in Indiana was Iß... | |
| 1911 - 458 páginas
...before. Always a Whig in politics; and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable... | |
| David W. Lusk - 1884 - 600 páginas
...before. Always a Whig in politics, and generally on the Whig electoral ticket, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable,... | |
| George Spring Merriam - 1885 - 456 páginas
...1847-8, and then gave way to another aspirant of his party ; practiced law, and, in his own words, " was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri compromise roused him again." As a young man, in the rough backwoods country, he was known as the most powerful... | |
| Allen Thorndike Rice - 1886 - 928 páginas
...more assiduously than ever before. In respect to that period of his life he once wrote to a friend : " I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again." There was a great upturning in the political situation in Illinois, brought about by the repeal of... | |
| James Ford Rhodes - 1892 - 526 páginas
...bill." * Life of Lincoln, Herndon, p. 361 ; Life of Lincoln, Arnold, p. 115. He wrote to a friend : " I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me ngain." — EB Washburne on Lincoln, Reminiscences of A. Lincoln, North American Publishing Company.... | |
| MELVILLE D. LANDON - 1893 - 672 páginas
...before. Always a Whig In politics, and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. If any personal description of me Is thought desirable. It may be said that I am In height six feet... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 280 páginas
...before. Always a Whig in politics; and generally on the Whig electoral tickets, making active canvasses. I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable,... | |
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