Why We Love LincolnOuting Publishing Company, 1909 - 168 pages |
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Page 66
... compromise was reached . California was to be admitted a free State , slavery was to be abolished in the District of Columbia , and there was to be an effective Fugitive Slave Law . These were the prin- cipal points . Henry Clay , in ...
... compromise was reached . California was to be admitted a free State , slavery was to be abolished in the District of Columbia , and there was to be an effective Fugitive Slave Law . These were the prin- cipal points . Henry Clay , in ...
Page 67
... compromise was adopted and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed . Then , in 1854 , Stephen A. Douglas , United States Senator from Illinois , intro- duced a bill providing a government for the immense country now included in Kan- sas ...
... compromise was adopted and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed . Then , in 1854 , Stephen A. Douglas , United States Senator from Illinois , intro- duced a bill providing a government for the immense country now included in Kan- sas ...
Page 77
... Compromise — we will say to the Southern disunionists , ' We won't go out of the Union and you shan't ! ' " We love Lincoln because on that day he spoke as one naked in the presence of God . There was no lie in his mouth . Slavery must ...
... Compromise — we will say to the Southern disunionists , ' We won't go out of the Union and you shan't ! ' " We love Lincoln because on that day he spoke as one naked in the presence of God . There was no lie in his mouth . Slavery must ...
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