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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... Nebraska Bill . This bill repealed the Mis- souri Compromise of 1820 , and cancelled also the provisions of the series of compromises of 1850 .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 ...
... Nebraska Bill . This bill repealed the Mis- souri Compromise of 1820 , and cancelled also the provisions of the series of compromises of 1850 .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 ...
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... 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 that the ...
... 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 that the ...
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... Nebraska Act , the purpose of which was to confirm the existence of slavery and to extend the institution throughout the country , was carried in the House by thirteen votes . The House contained at that time no less than twenty members ...
... Nebraska Act , the purpose of which was to confirm the existence of slavery and to extend the institution throughout the country , was carried in the House by thirteen votes . The House contained at that time no less than twenty members ...
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... Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision Let him consider , not only what work the machiner is adapted to do , and how well adapted , but also le him study the history of its construction , and trace if he can , or rather fail , if ...
... Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision Let him consider , not only what work the machiner is adapted to do , and how well adapted , but also le him study the history of its construction , and trace if he can , or rather fail , if ...
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... Nebraska Bill itself , in the anguage which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this Act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State , nor to exclude it therefrom , but to leave the people thereof perfectly free ...
... Nebraska Bill itself , in the anguage which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this Act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State , nor to exclude it therefrom , but to leave the people thereof perfectly free ...
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