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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... measure confirmed by the action of their 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 ...
... measure confirmed by the action of their 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 ...
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... measure of satisfaction , the South would have been more ready to accept the leadership of a Northern Democrat like Douglas . Up to a certain point in the conflict , they had felt the need of Douglas and had realised the importance of ...
... measure of satisfaction , the South would have been more ready to accept the leadership of a Northern Democrat like Douglas . Up to a certain point in the conflict , they had felt the need of Douglas and had realised the importance of ...
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... measure , and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a egro's freedom , by reason of his owner having Foluntarily taken him first into a free State ...
... measure , and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a egro's freedom , by reason of his owner having Foluntarily taken him first into a free State ...
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... measures . I appeared before th people of Chicago at a mass meeting , and vindicate each and every one of those measures ; and b reference to my speech on that occasion , whic was printed and circulated broadcast throughou the State at ...
... measures . I appeared before th people of Chicago at a mass meeting , and vindicate each and every one of those measures ; and b reference to my speech on that occasion , whic was printed and circulated broadcast throughou the State at ...
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... measures , and the principles upon which they were predicated . And what was the result of their action ? They passed resolutions , first repeal- ing the Wilmot Proviso instructions , and in lieu thereof adopted another resolution , in ...
... measures , and the principles upon which they were predicated . And what was the result of their action ? They passed resolutions , first repeal- ing the Wilmot Proviso instructions , and in lieu thereof adopted another resolution , in ...
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