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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... Territories . Mr. Lincoln was charged by his enemies in later years , when political enmity was hunting sharply for material out of which to make political capital against him , with lack of patriotism , in that he voted against the war ...
... Territories . Mr. Lincoln was charged by his enemies in later years , when political enmity was hunting sharply for material out of which to make political capital against him , with lack of patriotism , in that he voted against the war ...
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... Territories came up in many ways . The Wilmot Proviso had made its first appear- ance in the previous session , in the August before , but it was repeatedly before this Congress also , when efforts were made to apply it to the territory ...
... Territories came up in many ways . The Wilmot Proviso had made its first appear- ance in the previous session , in the August before , but it was repeatedly before this Congress also , when efforts were made to apply it to the territory ...
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... Territories of the United States . In spite of this decision , the friends of Freedom in Kansas maintained their ground . The slaveholders , however , pushed forward their schemes , and in November , 1857 , their Constitutional Conven ...
... Territories of the United States . In spite of this decision , the friends of Freedom in Kansas maintained their ground . The slaveholders , however , pushed forward their schemes , and in November , 1857 , their Constitutional Conven ...
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... They knew the man . They knew that on the cardinal principle of the Republican party , opposition to the spread of Slavery into the Territories , he was not with LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 3833 them ; for he 32 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
... They knew the man . They knew that on the cardinal principle of the Republican party , opposition to the spread of Slavery into the Territories , he was not with LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 3833 them ; for he 32 LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
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... Territories . And he closed his speech with a sharp attack upon Douglas , as being a party to this plan to legalize Slavery over the Conti- nent . It was plain from the first that the struggle would take the shape of a personal contest ...
... Territories . And he closed his speech with a sharp attack upon Douglas , as being a party to this plan to legalize Slavery over the Conti- nent . It was plain from the first that the struggle would take the shape of a personal contest ...
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