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Гарриет Бичер-Стоу. Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day
Men of Our Times; Or, Leading Patriots of the Day
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
CHAPTER II. ULYSSES SIMPSON GRANT
CHAPTER III. WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON
CHAPTER IV. CHARLES SUMNER
CHAPTER V. SALMON P. CHASE
CHAPTER VI. HENRY WILSON
CHAPTER VII. HORACE GREELEY
CHAPTER VIII. DAVID GLASCOE FARRAGUT
CHAPTER IX. JOHN ALBION ANDREW
CHAPTER X. SCHUYLER COLFAX
CHAPTER XI. EDWIN M. STANTON
CHAPTER XII. FREDERICK DOUGLASS
CHAPTER XIII. PHILIP H. SHERIDAN
CHAPTER XIV. WILLIAM T. SHERMAN
CHAPTER XV. OLIVER O. HOWARD
CHAPTER XVI. WILLIAM ALFRED BUCKINGHAM
CHAPTER XVII. WENDELL PHILLIPS
CHAPTER XVIII. HENRY WARD BEECHER
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Published by Good Press, 2019
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A little while afterwards, Douglas spoke again and Lincoln answered him again, at Peoria, and with a similar result. The vast positive will of the "Little Giant" could not stand up against the still loftier power with which Mr. Lincoln assailed him from the height of a moral superiority that irresistibly carried with it the best convictions of the whole community, and cowed the defiant wrong-doer. Mr. Lincoln was right. Mr. Douglas felt himself vanquished by a power incomprehensible to himself, and of which none of his political calculations ever took account.
But as regards the struggle at this time in Illinois, the fact that he felt himself over-weighted, was sufficiently proved by his declining, after the two duels at Springfield and Peoria, to proceed, as Mr. Lincoln invited him, with a series of such debates in other parts of the State.
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