The American Heritage History of the Making of the NationAmerican Heritage Publishing Company; book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, 1968 - United States - 416 pages |
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Page 277
... leaders Thurlow Weed and William Henry Seward . Both parties having hedged on the slavery question , dissidents in the Northwest and the East were left sim- mering in discontent . Taylor was pilloried as a slave- holder while Cass was ...
... leaders Thurlow Weed and William Henry Seward . Both parties having hedged on the slavery question , dissidents in the Northwest and the East were left sim- mering in discontent . Taylor was pilloried as a slave- holder while Cass was ...
Page 384
... leaders were shrewd . They and every- one else in Kansas knew that an overwhelming major- ity of residents wanted a free state . The best counter- approach , they felt , would be to assume slavery - with two hundred slaves already in ...
... leaders were shrewd . They and every- one else in Kansas knew that an overwhelming major- ity of residents wanted a free state . The best counter- approach , they felt , would be to assume slavery - with two hundred slaves already in ...
Page 386
... leader of the Northern Democrats , the potential leader of the free- soilers , and the possible presidential fusion candidate of Northern Democrats and Republicans in 1860. Men like Greeley praised him , urging Eastern Republicans to ...
... leader of the Northern Democrats , the potential leader of the free- soilers , and the possible presidential fusion candidate of Northern Democrats and Republicans in 1860. Men like Greeley praised him , urging Eastern Republicans to ...
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