The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65; Its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to Exhibit Expecially Its Moral and Political Phases, with the Drift and Progress of American Opinion Respecting Human Slavery, from 1776 to the Close of the War for the Union, Volume 1 |
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... Convention at Albany , 1861 -Seymour , Thayer , etc .-- Peace Conference or Congress at Washington - Modified Crittenden Compromise adopted thereby - Congress non- concurs - Failure to compromise - Why . XXVI . The Union versus the ...
... Convention at Albany , 1861 -Seymour , Thayer , etc .-- Peace Conference or Congress at Washington - Modified Crittenden Compromise adopted thereby - Congress non- concurs - Failure to compromise - Why . XXVI . The Union versus the ...
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... Convention at Phi- ladelphia which framed our present Constitution , took further action on the subject of the government of the western territory , raising a Select âš« Committee thereon , of which Nathan Dane , of Massachusetts , was ...
... Convention at Phi- ladelphia which framed our present Constitution , took further action on the subject of the government of the western territory , raising a Select âš« Committee thereon , of which Nathan Dane , of Massachusetts , was ...
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... CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION . THE experiment of a Confedera- | was fairly tried by our fathers . Its tion , as contra - distinguished from a more intimate and positive Union , SLAVERY IN THE CONVENTION . hension . Franklin , then.
... CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION . THE experiment of a Confedera- | was fairly tried by our fathers . Its tion , as contra - distinguished from a more intimate and positive Union , SLAVERY IN THE CONVENTION . hension . Franklin , then.
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... CONVENTION . hension . Franklin , then over eighty- | colored , if not recast , in accordance • THE SLAVE - TRADE IN THE CONVENTION . bodying. 43 one years of age , declined the chair on account of his increasing infirm- ities ; and , on ...
... CONVENTION . hension . Franklin , then over eighty- | colored , if not recast , in accordance • THE SLAVE - TRADE IN THE CONVENTION . bodying. 43 one years of age , declined the chair on account of his increasing infirm- ities ; and , on ...
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... CONVENTION . bodying in the Constitution a pro- | should they be. a Constitution as they would have preferred , Slavery would have found no lodgment in it ; but already the whip of Disunion was brandished , and the fatal necessity of ...
... CONVENTION . bodying in the Constitution a pro- | should they be. a Constitution as they would have preferred , Slavery would have found no lodgment in it ; but already the whip of Disunion was brandished , and the fatal necessity of ...
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