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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... Whig party , he held the opinion that if slavery could be restricted to the States in which it was already in existence , if no further States should be admitted into the Union , with the burden of slavery , the institution must , in ...
... Whig party , he held the opinion that if slavery could be restricted to the States in which it was already in existence , if no further States should be admitted into the Union , with the burden of slavery , the institution must , in ...
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... Whig party , whose great leader , Henry Clay , had closed his life in 1852 , just at the time when Lincoln was ... Whigs of 1850 , held , therefore , that in such of the Slave States as had been part of the original thirteen , slavery ...
... Whig party , whose great leader , Henry Clay , had closed his life in 1852 , just at the time when Lincoln was ... Whigs of 1850 , held , therefore , that in such of the Slave States as had been part of the original thirteen , slavery ...
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... Whigs . In this speech , Lincoln speaks of " that perfect liberty for which our South- ern fellow - citizens are sighing , the liberty of making slaves of other people " ; and again : " It is the con- tention of Mr. Douglas , in his ...
... Whigs . In this speech , Lincoln speaks of " that perfect liberty for which our South- ern fellow - citizens are sighing , the liberty of making slaves of other people " ; and again : " It is the con- tention of Mr. Douglas , in his ...
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... Whigs , and of the Free - soilers back of the Whigs , against any further extension of slavery , a contest which was really a fight for the continued existence of the nation . Lincoln seems to have gone into the fight with full courage ...
... Whigs , and of the Free - soilers back of the Whigs , against any further extension of slavery , a contest which was really a fight for the continued existence of the nation . Lincoln seems to have gone into the fight with full courage ...
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... Whigs from the South , like Crittenden and is patriotic associates , joined with a portion of the Democracy to carry out and vindicate the right of the people to decide whether slavery should or should not exist within the limits of ...
... Whigs from the South , like Crittenden and is patriotic associates , joined with a portion of the Democracy to carry out and vindicate the right of the people to decide whether slavery should or should not exist within the limits of ...
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