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... Democratic party that had hitherto been its willing tool . The split in the Democratic party started by Douglas flared wide open at the very beginning of the campaign , and the division immediately took on a sectional nature . The ...
... Democratic party that had hitherto been its willing tool . The split in the Democratic party started by Douglas flared wide open at the very beginning of the campaign , and the division immediately took on a sectional nature . The ...
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... Democrats . The chance of electing a Democratic President was made still slimmer by the entry of a third party into the field , the Constitutional Union- ists , descendants of the Know - Nothings and the Whigs , who nominated John Bell ...
... Democrats . The chance of electing a Democratic President was made still slimmer by the entry of a third party into the field , the Constitutional Union- ists , descendants of the Know - Nothings and the Whigs , who nominated John Bell ...
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... Democratic party was outraged . That party has ever prided itself , that it was the friend of individual , universal freedom . It was that principle upon which they car- ried their measures . When the Kansas scheme was conceived , it ...
... Democratic party was outraged . That party has ever prided itself , that it was the friend of individual , universal freedom . It was that principle upon which they car- ried their measures . When the Kansas scheme was conceived , it ...
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Reply to a Committee of Religious Denominations Asking | 145 |
Chronology | 193 |
Address to the People of Sangamon County Illinois March | 221 |
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