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Page 24
... nearly all that the North had claimed in the controversy . The bill , as passed , rejected the Land Ordinance contained in the Lecompton Constitution , and proposed a substitute . Kansas was to be admitted into the Union on an equal ...
... nearly all that the North had claimed in the controversy . The bill , as passed , rejected the Land Ordinance contained in the Lecompton Constitution , and proposed a substitute . Kansas was to be admitted into the Union on an equal ...
Page 25
... nearly three years afterwards- just as the Southern States were going out of it . She came in under an anti - slavery constitution , and Mr. Buchanan signed the bill of admission . The discussions of the Kansas question , as summed in ...
... nearly three years afterwards- just as the Southern States were going out of it . She came in under an anti - slavery constitution , and Mr. Buchanan signed the bill of admission . The discussions of the Kansas question , as summed in ...
Page 28
... nearly two months in a factious and fanatical spirit , produced a deep impression on the minds of Southern members and of their constituents . The early dissolution of the Union had come to be a subject freely canvassed among members of ...
... nearly two months in a factious and fanatical spirit , produced a deep impression on the minds of Southern members and of their constituents . The early dissolution of the Union had come to be a subject freely canvassed among members of ...
Page 34
... nearly a million of votes . During the canvass , the North had been distinctly warned by the conservative parties of the country , that the election of Lincoln by a strictly sectional vote would be taken as a decla- ration of war ...
... nearly a million of votes . During the canvass , the North had been distinctly warned by the conservative parties of the country , that the election of Lincoln by a strictly sectional vote would be taken as a decla- ration of war ...
Page 51
... nearly completed as to admit the introduction of its armament . The walls were of solid brick and concrete masonry , sixty feet high and from eight to twelve feet in thickness , and pierced for three tiers of guns on the northern ...
... nearly completed as to admit the introduction of its armament . The walls were of solid brick and concrete masonry , sixty feet high and from eight to twelve feet in thickness , and pierced for three tiers of guns on the northern ...
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