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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... territory of the North - west from which , under the Missouri Compromise , slavery had been excluded . The Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery discussion . The issues ...
... territory of the North - west from which , under the Missouri Compromise , slavery had been excluded . The Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery discussion . The issues ...
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... territory , a planter from South Carolina drew an affecting picture of his relations with his old coloured foster ... territory , but that you are not to be at liberty to sell her when you get her there . " Lincoln threw himself with ...
... territory , a planter from South Carolina drew an affecting picture of his relations with his old coloured foster ... territory , but that you are not to be at liberty to sell her when you get her there . " Lincoln threw himself with ...
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... territory did not cancel or impair the prop- erty rights of the master . It appeared to the men of the North as if under this decision the entire country , including in addition to the national territories the independent States which ...
... territory did not cancel or impair the prop- erty rights of the master . It appeared to the men of the North as if under this decision the entire country , including in addition to the national territories the independent States which ...
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... territory b Congressional prohibition . Four days later , com menced the struggle which ended in repealing tha Congressional prohibition . This opened all th National territory to slavery , and was the first poin gained . But , so far ...
... territory b Congressional prohibition . Four days later , com menced the struggle which ended in repealing tha Congressional prohibition . This opened all th National territory to slavery , and was the first poin gained . But , so far ...
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... Territory or State , nor to exclude it therefrom , but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own Tay , subject only to the Constitution of the United States . " Then opened ...
... Territory or State , nor to exclude it therefrom , but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own Tay , subject only to the Constitution of the United States . " Then opened ...
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