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Page 123
... slavery in the territories , with particular reference to the Missouri Compromise , the Compromise of 1850 , the Kansas - Nebraska Act , and the Dred Scott decision . Aside from one extended and not very profitable detour into whether ...
... slavery in the territories , with particular reference to the Missouri Compromise , the Compromise of 1850 , the Kansas - Nebraska Act , and the Dred Scott decision . Aside from one extended and not very profitable detour into whether ...
Page 139
... slavery in the territories , two had opposed it , and the other sixteen had never taken a position on the matter one way or another . He then demonstrated that the very constitutional clauses which Chief Justice Taney in the Supreme ...
... slavery in the territories , two had opposed it , and the other sixteen had never taken a position on the matter one way or another . He then demonstrated that the very constitutional clauses which Chief Justice Taney in the Supreme ...
Page 140
... Slavery is wrong . If slavery is right , all words , acts , laws , and con- stitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away . If it is right , we cannot justly object to its nationality— its universality ...
... Slavery is wrong . If slavery is right , all words , acts , laws , and con- stitutions against it are themselves wrong and should be silenced and swept away . If it is right , we cannot justly object to its nationality— its universality ...
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