Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ...Advertising matter: p. 391-399. |
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... territory , fertility of soil , and salubrity of climate . We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history ...
... territory , fertility of soil , and salubrity of climate . We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty than any of which the history ...
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... territory ; at another showing us how we can support the war by levying contributions on Mexico . At one time urging the national honor , the security of the future , the prevention of foreign interference , and even the good of Mexico ...
... territory ; at another showing us how we can support the war by levying contributions on Mexico . At one time urging the national honor , the security of the future , the prevention of foreign interference , and even the good of Mexico ...
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... territory . So again , he insists that the separate national existence of Mex- ico shall be maintained ; but he does not tell us how this can be done , after we shall have taken all her territory . Lest the questions I have suggested be ...
... territory . So again , he insists that the separate national existence of Mex- ico shall be maintained ; but he does not tell us how this can be done , after we shall have taken all her territory . Lest the questions I have suggested be ...
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... territorial governments ] on the judge's own motion it is so amended as to declare the Missouri Compromise inoperative and void ; and , sub- stantially , that the people who go and settle there may estab- lish slavery , or exclude it ...
... territorial governments ] on the judge's own motion it is so amended as to declare the Missouri Compromise inoperative and void ; and , sub- stantially , that the people who go and settle there may estab- lish slavery , or exclude it ...
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... territory than it would for reviving the African slave - trade by law . The law which forbids the bringing of slaves from Africa , and that which has so long forbidden the taking of them into Nebraska , can hardly be distinguished on ...
... territory than it would for reviving the African slave - trade by law . The law which forbids the bringing of slaves from Africa , and that which has so long forbidden the taking of them into Nebraska , can hardly be distinguished on ...
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