History of the Administration of President Lincoln: Including His Speeches, Letters, Addresses, Proclamations, and Messages. With a Preliminary Sketch of His Life |
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... measures , involving to an extent attacks upon Slavery , had not yet come . The question of the Territories came up in many ways . The Wilmot Proviso had made its first appear- ance in the previous session , in the August before , but ...
... measures , involving to an extent attacks upon Slavery , had not yet come . The question of the Territories came up in many ways . The Wilmot Proviso had made its first appear- ance in the previous session , in the August before , but ...
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... measure their own , and this opposition of Douglas at once excited against him the active hostility of the slaveholders and their friends , with whom he had hitherto acted in concert . bill was finally passed through Congress on April ...
... measure their own , and this opposition of Douglas at once excited against him the active hostility of the slaveholders and their friends , with whom he had hitherto acted in concert . bill was finally passed through Congress on April ...
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... measures , which , according to the same authority , if carried into execution , would have defeated the conspiracy , and rendered impossible the formation of a Southern Confederacy . An official report from the ordnance department ...
... measures , which , according to the same authority , if carried into execution , would have defeated the conspiracy , and rendered impossible the formation of a Southern Confederacy . An official report from the ordnance department ...
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... measures that might be proposed at Washington hostile to the secession movement . Davis of Mississippi , Slidell of Louis- iana , and Mallory of Florida , were appointed a committee to car- these decisions into effect ; and , in ...
... measures that might be proposed at Washington hostile to the secession movement . Davis of Mississippi , Slidell of Louis- iana , and Mallory of Florida , were appointed a committee to car- these decisions into effect ; and , in ...
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... measures which would quiet the apprehensions of the South , while they insisted that the author- ity of the Constitution should be maintained , and the constitu- tional election of a President should be respected . At the opening of the ...
... measures which would quiet the apprehensions of the South , while they insisted that the author- ity of the Constitution should be maintained , and the constitu- tional election of a President should be respected . At the opening of the ...
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