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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... Senate from the State of Illinois , but of the presentation of arguments , not only to the voters of Illinois but to citizens throughout the entire country , in behalf of the restriction of slavery on the one hand or of its indefinite ...
... Senate from the State of Illinois , but of the presentation of arguments , not only to the voters of Illinois but to citizens throughout the entire country , in behalf of the restriction of slavery on the one hand or of its indefinite ...
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... Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the Senate , re- quested the leading advocate of the Nebraska Bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers ...
... Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the Senate , re- quested the leading advocate of the Nebraska Bill to state his opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers ...
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... Senate and elsewhere , in every form in which I could reach the public mind or the public ear , I gave the pledge that I , so far as the power should be in my hands , would vindicate the prin- ple of the right of the people to form ...
... Senate and elsewhere , in every form in which I could reach the public mind or the public ear , I gave the pledge that I , so far as the power should be in my hands , would vindicate the prin- ple of the right of the people to form ...
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... Senate , - speech evidently well prepared and carefully writter -in which he states the basis upon which he pro poses to carry on the campaign during this summer In it he lays down two distinct propositions which shall notice , and upon ...
... Senate , - speech evidently well prepared and carefully writter -in which he states the basis upon which he pro poses to carry on the campaign during this summer In it he lays down two distinct propositions which shall notice , and upon ...
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... Senate , as made tp , are direct , unequivocal , and irreconcilable . He goes for uniformity in our domestic institutions , for a war of sections , until one or the other shall be subdued . I go for the great principle of the Kansas ...
... Senate , as made tp , are direct , unequivocal , and irreconcilable . He goes for uniformity in our domestic institutions , for a war of sections , until one or the other shall be subdued . I go for the great principle of the Kansas ...
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