Abraham Lincoln Goes to New YorkStory of the country lawyer's first trip to sophisticated New York, and full text of famous Cooper Union speech he delivered there February 27, 1860. |
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Page 120
... prohibition- thus showing that , in their understanding , no line dividing local from federal authority , nor anything else , properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in federal territory . This time the prohibition ...
... prohibition- thus showing that , in their understanding , no line dividing local from federal authority , nor anything else , properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in federal territory . This time the prohibition ...
Page 123
... prohibition and against all com- promises , while Mr. Pinckney as steadily voted against slavery prohibition and against all compromises . By this , Mr. King showed that , in his understanding , no line divid- ing local from federal ...
... prohibition and against all com- promises , while Mr. Pinckney as steadily voted against slavery prohibition and against all compromises . By this , Mr. King showed that , in his understanding , no line divid- ing local from federal ...
Page 124
... prohibition of slavery in the federal territories , in the in- stances in which they acted upon the question . But for what reasons they so voted is not known . They may have done so because they thought a proper division of local from ...
... prohibition of slavery in the federal territories , in the in- stances in which they acted upon the question . But for what reasons they so voted is not known . They may have done so because they thought a proper division of local from ...
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