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... questions at considerable length and with great skill . Then he leveled his own questions at Douglas , who sat on the tiny platform nonchalantly puffing a cigar . Loud applause surged up as he read out each question . After an extended ...
... questions at considerable length and with great skill . Then he leveled his own questions at Douglas , who sat on the tiny platform nonchalantly puffing a cigar . Loud applause surged up as he read out each question . After an extended ...
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... question that I was going to ask Judge Douglas about the power of squatters to exclude slavery from territories ? " And I replied that I recollected it very well . " Now , " said he , " don't you think I was right in putting that question ...
... question that I was going to ask Judge Douglas about the power of squatters to exclude slavery from territories ? " And I replied that I recollected it very well . " Now , " said he , " don't you think I was right in putting that question ...
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... question in this coun- try , should so entirely ignore the whole of that portion of our history the most important of all . Is it not a most extraordinary spectacle that a man should stand up and ask for any confidence in his statements ...
... question in this coun- try , should so entirely ignore the whole of that portion of our history the most important of all . Is it not a most extraordinary spectacle that a man should stand up and ask for any confidence in his statements ...
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