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... Congress adjourned on July 4. Lincoln pocketed the bill , refusing either to sign or to veto it , saying that it was of too great importance to be rushed through at the last moment , and also that he doubted the authority of Congress to ...
... Congress adjourned on July 4. Lincoln pocketed the bill , refusing either to sign or to veto it , saying that it was of too great importance to be rushed through at the last moment , and also that he doubted the authority of Congress to ...
Page 543
... Congress , which ran through its regular course in the two branches of the national legislature , and finally passed into a law in the month of May , by which the act of Congress prohibiting slavery from going into the Territories of ...
... Congress , which ran through its regular course in the two branches of the national legislature , and finally passed into a law in the month of May , by which the act of Congress prohibiting slavery from going into the Territories of ...
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... Congress , 685-690 Washington , D. C. , 1862 , from a message to Congress recommend- ing compensated emancipation , 695-697 Washington , D. C. , 1862 , from the annual message to Congress , 736-746 Washington , D. C. , 1862 , answering ...
... Congress , 685-690 Washington , D. C. , 1862 , from a message to Congress recommend- ing compensated emancipation , 695-697 Washington , D. C. , 1862 , from the annual message to Congress , 736-746 Washington , D. C. , 1862 , answering ...
Contents
Reply to a Committee of Religious Denominations Asking | 145 |
Chronology | 193 |
Address to the People of Sangamon County Illinois March | 221 |
Copyright | |
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