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... Party . " Marked Events of 1846. - Sumner the Leader of the Political Abolition Party . - Hetero- dox Anti - slavery Party . Its Sentiments . Horace Greeley the Leader of the Economic Anti - slavery Party . - The Aggressive Anti - slavery ...
... Party . " Marked Events of 1846. - Sumner the Leader of the Political Abolition Party . - Hetero- dox Anti - slavery Party . Its Sentiments . Horace Greeley the Leader of the Economic Anti - slavery Party . - The Aggressive Anti - slavery ...
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... Parties on the Treatment of the Slave Question . Convention of the Democratic Party at Baltimore , Maryland . - Nomination of Franklin Pierce for President . Whig Party Convention . - Nomination of Gen. Winfield Scott for the Presidency ...
... Parties on the Treatment of the Slave Question . Convention of the Democratic Party at Baltimore , Maryland . - Nomination of Franklin Pierce for President . Whig Party Convention . - Nomination of Gen. Winfield Scott for the Presidency ...
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... Party without a Live Issue . - Southern War Claims . The Campaign of 1876. — Republican Lethargy and Demo- cratic Activity.- Doubtful Results . The Electoral Count in Congress . Gen. Garfield and Congressmen Foster and Hale to the Front ...
... Party without a Live Issue . - Southern War Claims . The Campaign of 1876. — Republican Lethargy and Demo- cratic Activity.- Doubtful Results . The Electoral Count in Congress . Gen. Garfield and Congressmen Foster and Hale to the Front ...
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... party has been duly convicted , and that all children born within the said . State , after the admission thereof into the Union , shall be declared free at the age of twenty - five years . " A long and an able discussion followed , in ...
... party has been duly convicted , and that all children born within the said . State , after the admission thereof into the Union , shall be declared free at the age of twenty - five years . " A long and an able discussion followed , in ...
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... party shall have been duly convicted , shall be and is hereby forever prohibited . Provided always , that any person escaping into the same , from where labor or service is lawfully claimed in any State or territory of the United States ...
... party shall have been duly convicted , shall be and is hereby forever prohibited . Provided always , that any person escaping into the same , from where labor or service is lawfully claimed in any State or territory of the United States ...
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Page 318 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 232 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 273 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three...
Page 33 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 273 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 268 - An Act to Suppress Insurrection, to Punish Treason and Rebellion, to Seize and Confiscate Property of Rebels, and for Other Purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following: Sec.
Page 275 - God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings; by pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armour of righteousness on the right hand and on the left...
Page 242 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of or interference with property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens in any part of the country.
Page 20 - State are unable to protect or from any cause fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 421 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...