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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... adopted by a convention which had been brought together to formulate opposition to any extension of slavery , and this Jackson platform did contain the substance of the conclusions and certain of the phrases which later were included in ...
... adopted by a convention which had been brought together to formulate opposition to any extension of slavery , and this Jackson platform did contain the substance of the conclusions and certain of the phrases which later were included in ...
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... adopted , but the fraudulent character of the voting was so evident that Walker , the Democratic Governor , although a sympathiser with slavery , felt compelled to repudiate it . This constitution was repudiated also by Douglas , al ...
... adopted , but the fraudulent character of the voting was so evident that Walker , the Democratic Governor , although a sympathiser with slavery , felt compelled to repudiate it . This constitution was repudiated also by Douglas , al ...
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... adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision . Why was the court decision held up ? Why even a Senator's individual opinion withheld , till after the Presidential election ? Plainly enough now , the speaking ...
... adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision . Why was the court decision held up ? Why even a Senator's individual opinion withheld , till after the Presidential election ? Plainly enough now , the speaking ...
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... adopt their own fundamental law , and o manage and regulate their own internal affairs and domestic institutions . When I found an effort being made during the recent session of Congress to force a constitution upon the people of Kansas ...
... adopt their own fundamental law , and o manage and regulate their own internal affairs and domestic institutions . When I found an effort being made during the recent session of Congress to force a constitution upon the people of Kansas ...
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... adopted another resolution , in which they declared the great principle which asserts the right of the people to make their own form of government and establish their own institutions . That resolu- tion is as follows : Resolved , That ...
... adopted another resolution , in which they declared the great principle which asserts the right of the people to make their own form of government and establish their own institutions . That resolu- tion is as follows : Resolved , That ...
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