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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... regard to the admission of Kansas as a Slave State , were the immediate precursors of the Civil War . The larger causes lay farther back , but the war would have been postponed for an indefinite period if it had not been for the ...
... regard to the admission of Kansas as a Slave State , were the immediate precursors of the Civil War . The larger causes lay farther back , but the war would have been postponed for an indefinite period if it had not been for the ...
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... regard the Lecompton battl as having been fought , and the victory won , becaus the arrogant demand for the admission of Kansa under the Lecompton Constitution unconditionally whether her people wanted it or not , has bee abandoned ...
... regard the Lecompton battl as having been fought , and the victory won , becaus the arrogant demand for the admission of Kansa under the Lecompton Constitution unconditionally whether her people wanted it or not , has bee abandoned ...
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... regard- less of the wishes of the people to be affected by it ; and when I found upon the Crittenden - Montgomery bill the Republicans and Americans of the North , and I may say , too , some glorious Americans and old - line Whigs from ...
... regard- less of the wishes of the people to be affected by it ; and when I found upon the Crittenden - Montgomery bill the Republicans and Americans of the North , and I may say , too , some glorious Americans and old - line Whigs from ...
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... regard to the wishes of their constituents upon them . When that election was over , and the Legislature assem- bled , they proceeded to consider the merits of those Compromise measures , and the principles upon which they were ...
... regard to the wishes of their constituents upon them . When that election was over , and the Legislature assem- bled , they proceeded to consider the merits of those Compromise measures , and the principles upon which they were ...
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... regard him as kind , amiable , and intelligent gentleman , a goo citizen and an honorable opponent ; and whateve issue I may have with him will be of principle , an not involving personalities . Mr. Lincoln made speech before that ...
... regard him as kind , amiable , and intelligent gentleman , a goo citizen and an honorable opponent ; and whateve issue I may have with him will be of principle , an not involving personalities . Mr. Lincoln made speech before that ...
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