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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... negro , had secured the right to include the negro population as a basis for their representation in the lower House . In apportioning the represen- tatives to the population , five negroes were to be counted as the equivalent of three ...
... negro , had secured the right to include the negro population as a basis for their representation in the lower House . In apportioning the represen- tatives to the population , five negroes were to be counted as the equivalent of three ...
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... negro was not to be considered as a person but as a chattel ; and that the taking of such negro chattel into free territory did not cancel or impair the prop- erty rights of the master . It appeared to the men of the North as if under ...
... negro was not to be considered as a person but as a chattel ; and that the taking of such negro chattel into free territory did not cancel or impair the prop- erty rights of the master . It appeared to the men of the North as if under ...
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... negro's name was " Dred Scott , " which name now designates the decision finally made in the case . Before the then next Presidential election , the law case came to , and was argued in , the Supreme Court of the United States ; but the ...
... negro's name was " Dred Scott , " which name now designates the decision finally made in the case . Before the then next Presidential election , the law case came to , and was argued in , the Supreme Court of the United States ; but the ...
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... negro , ir every possible event , of the benefit of that pro vision of the United States Constitution which declares ... negro i actual slavery in a free State makes him free , a against the holder , the United States courts will no ...
... negro , ir every possible event , of the benefit of that pro vision of the United States Constitution which declares ... negro i actual slavery in a free State makes him free , a against the holder , the United States courts will no ...
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... negro slaves into the new Territories . Can he possibly show that it less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest ? And unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia . He has dine all in his ...
... negro slaves into the new Territories . Can he possibly show that it less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest ? And unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia . He has dine all in his ...
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