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... Kansas , for his refusal to help to make Kansas a slave State , in 1854 , ' 5 , any more than I could the removal by Mr. Buchanan of Gover- nor Walker , in 1858 , for his refusal to sanction the Lecompton frauds ; but how different the ...
... Kansas , for his refusal to help to make Kansas a slave State , in 1854 , ' 5 , any more than I could the removal by Mr. Buchanan of Gover- nor Walker , in 1858 , for his refusal to sanction the Lecompton frauds ; but how different the ...
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... Kansas , which alone elected him . There were present some twenty of the leaders of the Democratic party , North and South , among them Mr. Slidell , Mr. Breckinridge , and I think Mr. Douglas . One of my guests was Dr. William Elder ...
... Kansas , which alone elected him . There were present some twenty of the leaders of the Democratic party , North and South , among them Mr. Slidell , Mr. Breckinridge , and I think Mr. Douglas . One of my guests was Dr. William Elder ...
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... Kansas , and I made no concealment of my doubts . The angry protests of the North against that contem- plated villainy were being heard in the elections . The De- mocracy had just been unhorsed , right and left , North and South , by ...
... Kansas , and I made no concealment of my doubts . The angry protests of the North against that contem- plated villainy were being heard in the elections . The De- mocracy had just been unhorsed , right and left , North and South , by ...
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... Kansas ; that he would check the design of forcing slavery into that Ter- ritory ; and that he would tranquilize the country by arresting the sectional tendencies of the times . He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to ...
... Kansas ; that he would check the design of forcing slavery into that Ter- ritory ; and that he would tranquilize the country by arresting the sectional tendencies of the times . He lived , like hundreds of thousands of others , to ...
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... Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in Broderick a stubborn and a dangerous enemy . His rough New York schooling had made him ...
... Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in Broderick a stubborn and a dangerous enemy . His rough New York schooling had made him ...
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