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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... excluded . The Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery discussion . The issues that were brought to the front in the discussions about this bill , and in the still more ...
... excluded . The Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery discussion . The issues that were brought to the front in the discussions about this bill , and in the still more ...
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... addition to the national territories the independent States which had excluded slavery , was to be thrown open to the invasion of the institution . The Dred Scott decision , taken in connection with the Introduction xi.
... addition to the national territories the independent States which had excluded slavery , was to be thrown open to the invasion of the institution . The Dred Scott decision , taken in connection with the Introduction xi.
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... exclude slavery . When asked again by Lincoln how he brought this decision into accord with the Dred Scott decision , he replied in substance : " Well , they have not the right to take constitutional mea- sures to exclude slavery , but ...
... exclude slavery . When asked again by Lincoln how he brought this decision into accord with the Dred Scott decision , he replied in substance : " Well , they have not the right to take constitutional mea- sures to exclude slavery , but ...
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... exclude from more than half the States by State Constitu tions , and from most of the National territory b Congressional prohibition . Four days later , com menced the struggle which ended in repealing tha Congressional prohibition ...
... exclude from more than half the States by State Constitu tions , and from most of the National territory b Congressional prohibition . Four days later , com menced the struggle which ended in repealing tha Congressional prohibition ...
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... 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 the roar of loose declama ...
... 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 the roar of loose declama ...
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