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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... 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 discussion . 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 discussion . The ...
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... whole home circle ? Do you say that I must leave my old ' Mammy ' behind in South Carolina ? " " Oh ! " replied the Westerner , " the trouble with you is not that you cannot take your ' Mammy ' into this free territory , but that you ...
... whole home circle ? Do you say that I must leave my old ' Mammy ' behind in South Carolina ? " " Oh ! " replied the Westerner , " the trouble with you is not that you cannot take your ' Mammy ' into this free territory , but that you ...
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... whole question of savery to one of a mere right of property ; and , as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave trade , - how can he refuse that trade in that " property " stall be " perfectly free , " - unless he does it as a ...
... whole question of savery to one of a mere right of property ; and , as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave trade , - how can he refuse that trade in that " property " stall be " perfectly free , " - unless he does it as a ...
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... whole people , that has brought you together with a unanimity and a cordiality 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 ...
... whole people , that has brought you together with a unanimity and a cordiality 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 ...
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... whole . I have said that at all times . I have said , as illustrations , that I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana , the oyster laws of Vir- ginia , or the liquor laws of Maine . I ...
... whole . I have said that at all times . I have said , as illustrations , that I do not believe in the right of Illinois to interfere with the cranberry laws of Indiana , the oyster laws of Vir- ginia , or the liquor laws of Maine . I ...
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