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Page 58
... further embarrassments for him and new alarms among the Republicans . A new constitutional convention , this time boycotted by the anti - slavery elements , met at Lecompton in 1857 , and inevitably produced a pro - slavery constitution ...
... further embarrassments for him and new alarms among the Republicans . A new constitutional convention , this time boycotted by the anti - slavery elements , met at Lecompton in 1857 , and inevitably produced a pro - slavery constitution ...
Page 92
... further extension of slavery was a particularly dynamic and explosive version of it . The translation of the basic issue into territorial terms made conflict harder , and not easier , to resolve . The repercussions of casting the ...
... further extension of slavery was a particularly dynamic and explosive version of it . The translation of the basic issue into territorial terms made conflict harder , and not easier , to resolve . The repercussions of casting the ...
Page 445
... further service . The converted blockade - runner Tallahassee sailed out of Wilmington in August 1864 , and took thirty - three prizes in a month off the coast of the Northern states , and she and a sister ship , the Chickamauga , made ...
... further service . The converted blockade - runner Tallahassee sailed out of Wilmington in August 1864 , and took thirty - three prizes in a month off the coast of the Northern states , and she and a sister ship , the Chickamauga , made ...
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