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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... Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery discussion . The issues that were brought to the front in the discussions about this bill , and in the still more bitter contests ...
... Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery discussion . The issues that were brought to the front in the discussions about this bill , and in the still more bitter contests ...
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... Kansas - Nebraska Act made dear to the North that the South would accept no Imitations for slavery . The position of the Southern leaders , in which they had the substantial backing their constituents , was that slaves were property and ...
... Kansas - Nebraska Act made dear to the North that the South would accept no Imitations for slavery . The position of the Southern leaders , in which they had the substantial backing their constituents , was that slaves were property and ...
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... Kansas was in a state of rebellion and that the rebellion must be crushed . " Armed bands from Missouri crossed the river to Kansas for the purpose of casting fraudu lent votes and for the further purpose of keeping the Free - soil ...
... Kansas was in a state of rebellion and that the rebellion must be crushed . " Armed bands from Missouri crossed the river to Kansas for the purpose of casting fraudu lent votes and for the further purpose of keeping the Free - soil ...
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... Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants is a fair vote for the people , and that he cares not whether slavery be voted down ir voted up . I do not understand his declaration , that he cares not whether slavery ...
... Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants is a fair vote for the people , and that he cares not whether slavery be voted down ir voted up . I do not understand his declaration , that he cares not whether slavery ...
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... Kansas against their will , and to force that State into the Union with a constitution which her people had rejected by more than ten thousand , I felt bound as a man of honor and a representative of Illinois , bound by every ...
... Kansas against their will , and to force that State into the Union with a constitution which her people had rejected by more than ten thousand , I felt bound as a man of honor and a representative of Illinois , bound by every ...
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