New book: "How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts..."
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02-14-2013, 08:03 AM
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RE: New book: "How a Nation Grieves: Press Accounts..."
Tom, it was neither. The motive of the unusual action, for which Lincoln suffered considerable humiliation, was to break a quorum when Democrats called for a vote to cripple the Whig-favored state bank. Two other legislators, Joseph Gillepsie and Asahel Gridley, jumped with Lincoln.
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