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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Page 13
... Democratic Platform - The National Democratic Convention at Charleston - Splita on a Platform- The fragments adjourn to Baltimore and Richmond- Douglas and Fitzpatrick nominated by the larger fraction - Breckinridge and Lane by the ...
... Democratic Platform - The National Democratic Convention at Charleston - Splita on a Platform- The fragments adjourn to Baltimore and Richmond- Douglas and Fitzpatrick nominated by the larger fraction - Breckinridge and Lane by the ...
Page 56
... Democratic party from our rela- tions with Europe , and our sympa- thies with one or the other of the parties which divided her , would be transferred at once to the Federalists , and probably doubled or quadrupled in intensity and ...
... Democratic party from our rela- tions with Europe , and our sympa- thies with one or the other of the parties which divided her , would be transferred at once to the Federalists , and probably doubled or quadrupled in intensity and ...
Page 69
... Democratic party committed , through the nomination of Polk and its accessories , to the policy of an- nexing Texas , thus securing a fresh and boundless expansion to Slavery . When that Annexation was suddenly , and to most ...
... Democratic party committed , through the nomination of Polk and its accessories , to the policy of an- nexing Texas , thus securing a fresh and boundless expansion to Slavery . When that Annexation was suddenly , and to most ...
Page 111
... Democracy has uniformly opposed and de- feated every movement looking to this end . She , though slaveholding , has for ... Democratic party . It is now evi- dently near its end . westward to Wheeling , Virginia , | weekly journal entitled.
... Democracy has uniformly opposed and de- feated every movement looking to this end . She , though slaveholding , has for ... Democratic party . It is now evi- dently near its end . westward to Wheeling , Virginia , | weekly journal entitled.
Page 129
... Democratic State paper , says The Courier of next morning , fifteen years before he uttered it " their sanction to the proceedings , And it is yet far older than this . and adding , by their presence , to the impressive character of the ...
... Democratic State paper , says The Courier of next morning , fifteen years before he uttered it " their sanction to the proceedings , And it is yet far older than this . and adding , by their presence , to the impressive character of the ...
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