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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Page v
... brought to the front in the discussions about this bill , and in the still more bitter contests after the passage of the bill in regard to the admission of Kansas as a Slave State , were the immediate precursors of the Civil War . The ...
... brought to the front in the discussions about this bill , and in the still more bitter contests after the passage of the bill in regard to the admission of Kansas as a Slave State , were the immediate precursors of the Civil War . The ...
Page vi
... brought up to do toilsome manual labour . He would not admit that there was anything in manual labour that ought to impair the respect of the community for the labourer or the worker's respect for himself . Not the least of the evils of ...
... brought up to do toilsome manual labour . He would not admit that there was anything in manual labour that ought to impair the respect of the community for the labourer or the worker's respect for himself . Not the least of the evils of ...
Page x
... 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 the Republican platform . In January ...
... 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 the Republican platform . In January ...
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... brought into print not , as is most frequently the case , under the discretion or judgment of a friendly biographer , but by a great variety of more or less sympathetic people . It would seem as if but very few of Lincoln's letters ...
... brought into print not , as is most frequently the case , under the discretion or judgment of a friendly biographer , but by a great variety of more or less sympathetic people . It would seem as if but very few of Lincoln's letters ...
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... brought to a point at which the trimmer could not hold support on both sides of Mason and Dixon's Line . He formulated at the outset of the debate a question which was pressed persistently upon Douglas during the succeeding three weeks ...
... brought to a point at which the trimmer could not hold support on both sides of Mason and Dixon's Line . He formulated at the outset of the debate a question which was pressed persistently upon Douglas during the succeeding three weeks ...
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