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Page 347
... bill to give Nebraska territorial government . He accompanies this bill with a report , in which last he expressly recommends that the Missouri Compromise shall neither be affirmed nor repealed . Before long the bill is so modified as ...
... bill to give Nebraska territorial government . He accompanies this bill with a report , in which last he expressly recommends that the Missouri Compromise shall neither be affirmed nor repealed . Before long the bill is so modified as ...
Page 356
... bill of 1853 ? Why was it omitted in the original bill of 1854 ? Why in the accompany- ing report was such a repeal characterized as a departure from the course pursued in 1850 ? and its continued omission recom- mended ? I am aware ...
... bill of 1853 ? Why was it omitted in the original bill of 1854 ? Why in the accompany- ing report was such a repeal characterized as a departure from the course pursued in 1850 ? and its continued omission recom- mended ? I am aware ...
Page 378
... bill was the cause that led to the adoption of these measures . It is now more than fifty years since the last of these States adopted its system of emancipation . If the Nebraska bill is the real author of the benevolent works , it is ...
... bill was the cause that led to the adoption of these measures . It is now more than fifty years since the last of these States adopted its system of emancipation . If the Nebraska bill is the real author of the benevolent works , it is ...
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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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