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... Judge , is equally at fault when he charges me at the time when I was in Congress of having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican War . The Judge did not make his charge very distinctly but I can tell you what he can ...
... Judge , is equally at fault when he charges me at the time when I was in Congress of having opposed our soldiers who were fighting in the Mexican War . The Judge did not make his charge very distinctly but I can tell you what he can ...
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... Judge Douglas will not deny that he was then in favor of overslaughing that decision by the mode of adding five new Judges , so as to vote down the four old ones . Not only so , but it ended in the Judge's sitting down on that very ...
... Judge Douglas will not deny that he was then in favor of overslaughing that decision by the mode of adding five new Judges , so as to vote down the four old ones . Not only so , but it ended in the Judge's sitting down on that very ...
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... Judge Douglas and the Republi- cans in this . I suppose that the real difference between Judge Doug- las and his friends , and the Republicans on the contrary , is that the Judge is not in favor of making any difference between slavery ...
... Judge Douglas and the Republi- cans in this . I suppose that the real difference between Judge Doug- las and his friends , and the Republicans on the contrary , is that the Judge is not in favor of making any difference between slavery ...
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Early Years in Springfield | 17 |
Prairie Politics | 71 |
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