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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... slavery movement , he had waited a long time before he took a stand . Bowen had shown greater concern about slavery than Beecher . He was an abolitionist . He belonged to the American Anti - Slavery Society . In fact , it was said that ...
... slavery movement , he had waited a long time before he took a stand . Bowen had shown greater concern about slavery than Beecher . He was an abolitionist . He belonged to the American Anti - Slavery Society . In fact , it was said that ...
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... slavery in the federal territory ; else both their fidelity to correct principle , and their oath to support the Constitution , would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition . Again , George Washington , another of the " thirty ...
... slavery in the federal territory ; else both their fidelity to correct principle , and their oath to support the Constitution , would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition . Again , George Washington , another of the " thirty ...
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... slavery in the federal territories . But there is much reason to be- lieve that their understanding upon that ... slavery . If we should look into their acts and declarations on those other phases , as the foreign slave trade , and the ...
... slavery in the federal territories . But there is much reason to be- lieve that their understanding upon that ... slavery . If we should look into their acts and declarations on those other phases , as the foreign slave trade , and the ...
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