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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 682 0 Browse Search
Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas, Debates of Lincoln and Douglas: Carefully Prepared by the Reporters of Each Party at the times of their Delivery. 358 0 Browse Search
William H. Herndon, Jesse William Weik, Herndon's Lincoln: The True Story of a Great Life, Etiam in minimis major, The History and Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by William H. Herndon, for twenty years his friend and Jesse William Weik 258 0 Browse Search
Mrs. John A. Logan, Reminiscences of a Soldier's Wife: An Autobiography 208 0 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 204 0 Browse Search
John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History 182 0 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 104 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, Diary from December 17, 1860 - April 30, 1864 (ed. Frank Moore) 102 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 10. (ed. Frank Moore) 86 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 72 0 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Death of a Noted character. (search)
itney, familiarly known as "Milord Coke," the King of the Missouri Legislative lobby, died in Pike county, Mc., on the 13th inst., aged 84 years. In former times, the "Lobby," or third house, was regularly organized at every session of the Missouri Legislature. "Milord Coke" was the perpetual President at the third House, always claiming that position as a matter of right. As a parliamentarian he had no superior in the State, and many a Speaker and Lieut. Governor has been brought to the blush by "Milord's" stinging reviews of some of the decisions given by them from the chair. Mr. Whitney was a graduate of Williams' College. He afterwards studied law in Cazenovia, N. Y., and emigrated to Alton white Illinois was yet a territory. Before coming West he married in Massachusetts, where he lived with his wife and son for a short time, when one day, from some cause which he never would explain, he packed up his clothes and left, never seeing or corresponding with his family afterward.
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], State Convention called by the Illinois Democratic State Committee (search)
State Convention called by the Illinois Democratic State Committee --The Democratic State Committee of Illinois have called a State Convention, to be held in Springfield on the 16th of January, to confer as to the existing national crisis and adopt a line of policy relative thereto.
The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Republican "Invincible" and the inauguration of Lincoln. (search)
y Mr. Pryor asserting that an attempt to preserve the Union between a State and the Confederacy by force would be equally unconstitutional and impolitic, and the destruction of Republican liberty; one by Mr. Vallandigham, substituting the Crittenden resolutions; one by Colfax, that the laws of the Union should be enforced, and the Union of the States maintained, and that it is the duty of the President to protect the U. S. property with all the power placed in his hands, and one by Morris, of Ill., that in pursuing any plan for the adjustment of the existing difficulties we will keep steadily in view the preservation of the Union under the Constitution as a paramount consideration. After a desultory debate, in which Messrs. Cox, Pryer, Smith of Va., Jenkins, Sherman, Stanton, Colfax, Noe, Hinchman, Montgomery, McClernand, and Harris of Va., participated, all pending propositions were, on motion of the last-named gentleman, referred to a committee of fourteen--one from each State r