The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the Senatorial Campaign of 1858 in Illinois, Together with Certain Preceding Speeches of Each at Chicago, Springfield, Etc |
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... Abolitionist , -I have been an Old Line Whig , -I have always hated it ; but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began . I always believed that everybody was against it , and ...
... Abolitionist , -I have been an Old Line Whig , -I have always hated it ; but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began . I always believed that everybody was against it , and ...
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... Abolition principles of Mr. Lincoln must be maintained , or the strong , constitutional , national Democratic prin- ciples with which I am identified must be carried out . There can be but two great political parties in this country ...
... Abolition principles of Mr. Lincoln must be maintained , or the strong , constitutional , national Democratic prin- ciples with which I am identified must be carried out . There can be but two great political parties in this country ...
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... abolition in every Southern State , and you invite them to make a warfare upon the Northern States in order to establish slavery , for the sake of perpetuating it at home . Thus , Mr. Lincoln invites by his proposition a war of sections ...
... abolition in every Southern State , and you invite them to make a warfare upon the Northern States in order to establish slavery , for the sake of perpetuating it at home . Thus , Mr. Lincoln invites by his proposition a war of sections ...
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... enter into the Southern States , and inter- fere with slavery . " Well , I never did suppose that he ever dreamed of entering into Kentucky to make Their war upon her institutions ; nor will any Abolitionist Stephen A. Douglas 83.
... enter into the Southern States , and inter- fere with slavery . " Well , I never did suppose that he ever dreamed of entering into Kentucky to make Their war upon her institutions ; nor will any Abolitionist Stephen A. Douglas 83.
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Abraham Lincoln George Haven Putnam. Their war upon her institutions ; nor will any Abolitionist ever enter into Kentucky to wage such war . mode of making war is not to enter into those States where slavery exists , and there interfere ...
Abraham Lincoln George Haven Putnam. Their war upon her institutions ; nor will any Abolitionist ever enter into Kentucky to wage such war . mode of making war is not to enter into those States where slavery exists , and there interfere ...
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