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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... Fathers had been led into this compact unwittingly and without full realisation of the responsibilities that they were assuming for the perpetuation of a great wrong . They refused to accept the view that later generations of American ...
... Fathers had been led into this compact unwittingly and without full realisation of the responsibilities that they were assuming for the perpetuation of a great wrong . They refused to accept the view that later generations of American ...
Page viii
... fathers in 1820 . The Missouri Compromise of 1820 , in making clear that all States thereafter organised north of the line thirty - six , thirty were to be Free States , made clear also that States south of that line had the privilege ...
... fathers in 1820 . The Missouri Compromise of 1820 , in making clear that all States thereafter organised north of the line thirty - six , thirty were to be Free States , made clear also that States south of that line had the privilege ...
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... fathers of the Revolution and the sages who made the Constitution well understood that the laws and domestic institutions which would suit the granite hills of New Hampshire would be totally unfit for the rice plantations of South Caro ...
... fathers of the Revolution and the sages who made the Constitution well understood that the laws and domestic institutions which would suit the granite hills of New Hampshire would be totally unfit for the rice plantations of South Caro ...
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... fathers have made it . I will yield obedience to th laws , whether I like them or not , as I find them d the statute book . I will sustain the judicial tr bunals and constituted authorities in all matte within the pale of their ...
... fathers have made it . I will yield obedience to th laws , whether I like them or not , as I find them d the statute book . I will sustain the judicial tr bunals and constituted authorities in all matte within the pale of their ...
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... fathers and grandfathers ; they were iron men ; they fought for the principle that they were contending for ; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity which we now enjoy has come to us ...
... fathers and grandfathers ; they were iron men ; they fought for the principle that they were contending for ; and we understood that by what they then did it has followed that the degree of prosperity which we now enjoy has come to us ...
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