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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... opinion that if slavery could be restricted to the States in which it was already in existence , if no further States should be admitted into the Union , with the burden of slavery , the institution must , in the course of a generation ...
... opinion that if slavery could be restricted to the States in which it was already in existence , if no further States should be admitted into the Union , with the burden of slavery , the institution must , in the course of a generation ...
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... opinion was represented a few years later in the Presidential candidacy of John C. Breckin- idge . The contention of the more extreme of the Northern opponents of slavery voters , whose spokes- men were William Lloyd Garrison , Wendell ...
... opinion was represented a few years later in the Presidential candidacy of John C. Breckin- idge . The contention of the more extreme of the Northern opponents of slavery voters , whose spokes- men were William Lloyd Garrison , Wendell ...
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... opinion that this question was inadvisable . They took the ground that Douglas would answer the question in such way as to secure the approval of the voters of Illinois and that in so doing he would win the Senatorship . Lincoln's ...
... opinion that this question was inadvisable . They took the ground that Douglas would answer the question in such way as to secure the approval of the voters of Illinois and that in so doing he would win the Senatorship . Lincoln's ...
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... not ceased , but has constantly augmented . In my opinion , it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed . " A house divided against itself cannot stand . " I believe this government cannot endur permanently I.
... not ceased , but has constantly augmented . In my opinion , it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed . " A house divided against itself cannot stand . " I believe this government cannot endur permanently I.
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... opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers : " That is a question for the Supreme Court . " The election came . Mr. Buchanan was elected , and the ...
... opinion whether the people of a Territory can constitutionally exclude slavery from their limits ; and the latter answers : " That is a question for the Supreme Court . " The election came . Mr. Buchanan was elected , and the ...
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