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Second Inaugural Address by George W. Bush
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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“Fighting Rebels With Only One Hand” by Frederick Douglass
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Second Inaugural Address by William McKinley
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Four (Charleston); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Fragment: Notes for Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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Inaugural Address by Rutherford B. Hayes
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Inaugural Address by Theodore Roosevelt
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Fragment of Speeches by Abraham Lincoln
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Resolutions on the Relations of States
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Stephen Douglas Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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"Is it a Fraud?" Editorial.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln
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Dred Scott Decision
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The 14th Section by Abraham Lincoln
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Fragment on Slavery II by Abraham Lincoln
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Letter to James C. Conkling by Abraham Lincoln
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