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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... never came to Lincoln requirement to say to his correspondent , " Burn this letter . " In 1856 , the Supreme Court , under the headship of Judge Taney , gave out the decision in the Dred Scott case . The purport of this decision was ...
... never came to Lincoln requirement to say to his correspondent , " Burn this letter . " In 1856 , the Supreme Court , under the headship of Judge Taney , gave out the decision in the Dred Scott case . The purport of this decision was ...
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... never before excelled if , indeed , equalled , on any occasion . I have not the vanity to believe that it is any personal complimen to me . It is an expression of your devotion to that grea principle of self - government , to which my ...
... never before excelled if , indeed , equalled , on any occasion . I have not the vanity to believe that it is any personal complimen to me . It is an expression of your devotion to that grea principle of self - government , to which my ...
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... never contemplated uniformity in its internal concerns . The 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 ...
... never contemplated uniformity in its internal concerns . The 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 ...
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... never been up , -he says he is in favor of it , and sticks to it , and expects to win his battle on that decision , which says that there is no such thing as squatter sovereignty , but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory ...
... never been up , -he says he is in favor of it , and sticks to it , and expects to win his battle on that decision , which says that there is no such thing as squatter sovereignty , but that any one man may take slaves into a Territory ...
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... never heard of even Joh Calhoun saying such a thing . He insisted on th same principle as Judge Douglas ; but his mode applying it , in fact , was wrong . It is enough for m purpose to ask this crowd whenever a Republica said anything ...
... never heard of even Joh Calhoun saying such a thing . He insisted on th same principle as Judge Douglas ; but his mode applying it , in fact , was wrong . It is enough for m purpose to ask this crowd whenever a Republica said anything ...
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