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Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass
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The Second Inaugural Address by James Monroe
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Speech at Chicago by Stephen Douglas
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What the Black Man Wants by Frederick Douglas
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Inaugural Address by Calvin Coolidge
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First Inaugural Address by James Monroe
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Inaugural Address by William Henry Harrison
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Dred Scott Decision
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First Inaugural Address by Woodrow Wilson
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Four (Charleston); Douglas Opening Remarks
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First Inaugural Address by William McKinley
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Inaugural Address by Lyndon Baines Johnson
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Two (Freeport); Douglas's Opening Remarks
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On the Irrepressible Conflict by William Henry Seward
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Opening Remarks
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1978 Speech by Newt Gingrich to the College Republicans.
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