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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... Compromise of 1820 , and cancelled also the provisions of the series of compromises of 1850 . Its purpose was to throw open for settlement and for later organisation as Slave States the whole territory of the North - west from which ...
... Compromise of 1820 , and cancelled also the provisions of the series of compromises of 1850 . Its purpose was to throw open for settlement and for later organisation as Slave States the whole territory of the North - west from which ...
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... Compromise of 1820 , in making clear that all States thereafter organised north of the line thirty - six , thirty were to be Free States , made clear also that States south of that line had the privilege of coming into the Union with ...
... Compromise of 1820 , in making clear that all States thereafter organised north of the line thirty - six , thirty were to be Free States , made clear also that States south of that line had the privilege of coming into the Union with ...
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... Compromise permitted also the introduction of Missouri itself into the Union as a Slave State ( as a counterpoise to the State of Maine admitted the same year ) , although almost the entire territory of the State of Missouri was north ...
... Compromise permitted also the introduction of Missouri itself into the Union as a Slave State ( as a counterpoise to the State of Maine admitted the same year ) , although almost the entire territory of the State of Missouri was north ...
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... Compromise ( and the two acts were doubtless a part of one thoroughly con- sidered policy ) , foreshadowed as their logical and almost inevitable consequence the bringing of the entire nation under this control of slavery . The men of ...
... Compromise ( and the two acts were doubtless a part of one thoroughly con- sidered policy ) , foreshadowed as their logical and almost inevitable consequence the bringing of the entire nation under this control of slavery . The men of ...
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... Compromise . It is probable , however , that if the Dred Scott decision had not given to the South so full a measure of satisfaction , the South would have been more ready to accept the leadership of a Northern Democrat like Douglas ...
... Compromise . It is probable , however , that if the Dred Scott decision had not given to the South so full a measure of satisfaction , the South would have been more ready to accept the leadership of a Northern Democrat like Douglas ...
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