Little MasterpiecesDoubleday & McClure, 1899 - 167 pages |
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Page 13
... Kansas- Nebraska bill , passed in 1854 , which gave the Territories the right to decide whether they would have slavery . The Dred Scott decision was published by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 , and was > the effect ...
... Kansas- Nebraska bill , passed in 1854 , which gave the Territories the right to decide whether they would have slavery . The Dred Scott decision was published by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 , and was > the effect ...
Page 27
... the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton constitution was or was not , in any just sense , made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants 27 Springfield Speech.
... the Nebraska bill , on the mere question of fact , whether the Lecompton constitution was or was not , in any just sense , made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel the latter declares that all he wants 27 Springfield Speech.
Page 130
... Kansas and Nebraska . The free - soil men were highly wrought up in opposition , and Mr. Lin- coln partook of their feelings . I am unable to point out those sentences and parts of the reported speech which vary most in phraseology from ...
... Kansas and Nebraska . The free - soil men were highly wrought up in opposition , and Mr. Lin- coln partook of their feelings . I am unable to point out those sentences and parts of the reported speech which vary most in phraseology from ...
Page 131
... Kansas and Nebraska into slave States . This bad work was carried on actively in the spring of 1856. Many houses of the free - State men of the new city of Lawrence , including their hotel , were burnt . Printing - offices were ...
... Kansas and Nebraska into slave States . This bad work was carried on actively in the spring of 1856. Many houses of the free - State men of the new city of Lawrence , including their hotel , were burnt . Printing - offices were ...
Page 132
... Kansas , " told of the " border ruffian ” raids from Missouri upon the free - State settlers in Kansas : the burnings , robberies , and mur- ders they were then committing ; and asked for help to repel them . When he finished , Lincoln ...
... Kansas , " told of the " border ruffian ” raids from Missouri upon the free - State settlers in Kansas : the burnings , robberies , and mur- ders they were then committing ; and asked for help to repel them . When he finished , Lincoln ...
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