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... Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas , Jefferson Davis , and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. A sequel , The Whirlwind of War : Voices of the Storm , 1861-1865 , will recount the war from the perspectives of ...
... Missouri crisis of 1820 down to Stephen A. Douglas , Jefferson Davis , and Abraham Lincoln in the final crisis of 1861. A sequel , The Whirlwind of War : Voices of the Storm , 1861-1865 , will recount the war from the perspectives of ...
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... Missouri question , like a haunting nightmare , dominates almost every line I write . My correspondents kept me informed about the crisis in Congress last year , when the Missouri Territory sought admission as a slave state , which at ...
... Missouri question , like a haunting nightmare , dominates almost every line I write . My correspondents kept me informed about the crisis in Congress last year , when the Missouri Territory sought admission as a slave state , which at ...
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... Missouri be respected and guaranteed . Both sides threatened dissolution of the Union and civil war . So spoke the wisdom of the current generation of leaders ! Yes , a com- promise finally emerged , to take effect this year , which ...
... Missouri be respected and guaranteed . Both sides threatened dissolution of the Union and civil war . So spoke the wisdom of the current generation of leaders ! Yes , a com- promise finally emerged , to take effect this year , which ...
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... Missouri Compromise has thrown me into a state of such profound melancholy that I find it difficult to sleep or to think about anything else . I mope in the parlor and on the portico , oblivious to the majestic panorama of my ...
... Missouri Compromise has thrown me into a state of such profound melancholy that I find it difficult to sleep or to think about anything else . I mope in the parlor and on the portico , oblivious to the majestic panorama of my ...
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... Missouri crisis and was shocked by the violent passions it provoked in the new Hall of Rep- resentatives , an elegant , domed , semicircular room modeled after a Greek theater . Day after day , men leaped to their feet and threatened ...
... Missouri crisis and was shocked by the violent passions it provoked in the new Hall of Rep- resentatives , an elegant , domed , semicircular room modeled after a Greek theater . Day after day , men leaped to their feet and threatened ...
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Page 227 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 430 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 230 - Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered...
Page 342 - And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit. and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
Page 163 - Americans, South as well as North, shall we make no effort to arrest this? Already the liberal party throughout the world express the apprehension " that the one retrograde institution in America is undermining the principles of progress, and fatally violating the noblest political system the world ever saw.
Page 200 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 243 - I have only to say, let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man — this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position — discarding our standard that we have left us.
Page 255 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?