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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... Slave States the whole territory of the North - west from which , under the Missouri Compromise , slavery had been excluded . The Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery ...
... Slave States the whole territory of the North - west from which , under the Missouri Compromise , slavery had been excluded . The Kansas - Nebraska Bill not only threw open a great territory to slavery but re - opened the whole slavery ...
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... Slave States should be assured of the same recognition and rights as had been accorded to those of the original thirteen . The Missouri Compromise permitted also the introduction of Missouri itself into the Union as a Slave State ( as a ...
... Slave States should be assured of the same recognition and rights as had been accorded to those of the original thirteen . The Missouri Compromise permitted also the introduction of Missouri itself into the Union as a Slave State ( as a ...
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... slavery . The men of the future State of Kansas made during 1856-57 a plucky fight to keep slavery out of their borders ... slave and half free . " It was with thi statement as his starting - point that Lincoln entere into his famous ...
... slavery . The men of the future State of Kansas made during 1856-57 a plucky fight to keep slavery out of their borders ... slave and half free . " It was with thi statement as his starting - point that Lincoln entere into his famous ...
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... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , car ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of tha term as used in the Constitution of the United States This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , car ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of tha term as used in the Constitution of the United States This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
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... slavery in them all ; of forcing it upon Illinois , of forcing it upon New York , upon New England , and upon every other ... slave . Now , my friends , I must say to you frankly that I take bold , unqualified issue with him upon that ...
... slavery in them all ; of forcing it upon Illinois , of forcing it upon New York , upon New England , and upon every other ... slave . Now , my friends , I must say to you frankly that I take bold , unqualified issue with him upon that ...
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