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... Missouri Compromise inoperative and void ; and , sub- stantially , that the people who go and settle there may estab- lish slavery , or exclude it , as they may see fit . In this shape the bill passed both branches of Congress and ...
... Missouri Compromise inoperative and void ; and , sub- stantially , that the people who go and settle there may estab- lish slavery , or exclude it , as they may see fit . In this shape the bill passed both branches of Congress and ...
Page 79
... Missouri Compromise is still to come . That argument is " the sacred right of self - government . " It seems our dis- tinguished senator has found great difficulty in getting his antagonists , even in the Senate , to meet him fairly on ...
... Missouri Compromise is still to come . That argument is " the sacred right of self - government . " It seems our dis- tinguished senator has found great difficulty in getting his antagonists , even in the Senate , to meet him fairly on ...
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... Missouri Compromise . Every inch of territory we owned already had a definite settlement of the slavery question , by which all parties were pledged to abide . Indeed , there was no uninhabited country on the continent which we could ...
... Missouri Compromise . Every inch of territory we owned already had a definite settlement of the slavery question , by which all parties were pledged to abide . Indeed , there was no uninhabited country on the continent which we could ...
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... Missouri Compromise , repeal all compromises , repeal the Declaration of Independence , repeal all past history , you still cannot repeal human nature . It still will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery ex- tension is wrong ...
... Missouri Compromise , repeal all compromises , repeal the Declaration of Independence , repeal all past history , you still cannot repeal human nature . It still will be the abundance of man's heart that slavery ex- tension is wrong ...
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... Missouri Com- promise , and with it the spirit of all compromise , will or will not embolden and embitter each of these , and fatally increase the number of both . But restore the compromise , and what then ? We thereby restore the ...
... Missouri Com- promise , and with it the spirit of all compromise , will or will not embolden and embitter each of these , and fatally increase the number of both . But restore the compromise , and what then ? We thereby restore the ...
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