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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... South for the right to make Slave States throughout the entire territory of the country , and for the readiness on the part of certain Democratic leaders of the North , of whom Douglas was the chief , to accept this contention , and ...
... South for the right to make Slave States throughout the entire territory of the country , and for the readiness on the part of certain Democratic leaders of the North , of whom Douglas was the chief , to accept this contention , and ...
Page vi
... South Carolina drew an affecting picture of his relations with his old coloured foster - mother , the " Mammy " of the plantation . “ Do you tell me , " he said , addressing himself to a Free - soil opponent , " that I , a free American ...
... South Carolina drew an affecting picture of his relations with his old coloured foster - mother , the " Mammy " of the plantation . “ Do you tell me , " he said , addressing himself to a Free - soil opponent , " that I , a free American ...
Page vii
... 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 Constitution , having guaranteed 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 Constitution , having guaranteed the ...
Page viii
... South Carolina . The Whig party , whose great leader , Henry Clay , had closed his life in 1852 , just at the time when Lincoln was becoming prominent in politics , held that all citizens were bound by the compact entered into by their ...
... South Carolina . The Whig party , whose great leader , Henry Clay , had closed his life in 1852 , just at the time when Lincoln was becoming prominent in politics , held that all citizens were bound by the compact entered into by their ...
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... South , while denying the suffrage to the negro , had secured the right to include the negro population as a basis for their representation in the lower House . In apportioning the represen- tatives to the population , five negroes were ...
... South , while denying the suffrage to the negro , had secured the right to include the negro population as a basis for their representation in the lower House . In apportioning the represen- tatives to the population , five negroes were ...
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