Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States , in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . PHILADELPHIA : STEREOTYPED BY 8. A. GEORGE , COLLINS , PRINTER . DEDICATED TO THE GOOD AND TRUE OF THE NATION REDEEMED.
... Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States , in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania . PHILADELPHIA : STEREOTYPED BY 8. A. GEORGE , COLLINS , PRINTER . DEDICATED TO THE GOOD AND TRUE OF THE NATION REDEEMED.
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... down they voted the amend- ment . " While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by The Dred Scott Case . In the Supreme Court . IN CONGRESS AND ON THE STUMP . 23.
... down they voted the amend- ment . " While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by The Dred Scott Case . In the Supreme Court . IN CONGRESS AND ON THE STUMP . 23.
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... Court . Buchanan's Election . reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then a territory covered by the Congressional prohibition , and held him as a slave - for a long time in each- was passing ...
... Court . Buchanan's Election . reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then a territory covered by the Congressional prohibition , and held him as a slave - for a long time in each- was passing ...
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... courts will not decide , but will leave it to be decided by the courts of any slave State the negro may be forced into by the master . " This point is made , not to be pressed immediately ; but , if acquiesced in for a while , and ...
... courts will not decide , but will leave it to be decided by the courts of any slave State the negro may be forced into by the master . " This point is made , not to be pressed immediately ; but , if acquiesced in for a while , and ...
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... court decision held up ? Why even a Senator's individual opinion withheld till after the Presi- dential election ? Plainly enough now ; the speaking out then would have damaged the " perfectly free " argument upon which the election was ...
... court decision held up ? Why even a Senator's individual opinion withheld till after the Presi- dential election ? Plainly enough now ; the speaking out then would have damaged the " perfectly free " argument upon which the election was ...
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