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O WING to the prospect of a modification of the tariff in Southern interests , according to the promise of President Adams , in which he was joined by other influential Northern statesmen , the threats of secession by the South quieted ...
O WING to the prospect of a modification of the tariff in Southern interests , according to the promise of President Adams , in which he was joined by other influential Northern statesmen , the threats of secession by the South quieted ...
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In the same publication we find the following : " Previously to our Revolution , when the arm of oppression was stretched over New England , where did our Northern brethren meet with a braver sympathy than that which sprung from the ...
In the same publication we find the following : " Previously to our Revolution , when the arm of oppression was stretched over New England , where did our Northern brethren meet with a braver sympathy than that which sprung from the ...
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The votes of Stephens , an Administration Democrat , and Howard , a Republican , offset each other , and that of English , a Northern Democrat who was understood to be in sympathy with Senator Douglas's opposition to the Lecompton ...
The votes of Stephens , an Administration Democrat , and Howard , a Republican , offset each other , and that of English , a Northern Democrat who was understood to be in sympathy with Senator Douglas's opposition to the Lecompton ...
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Auxiliary to all this , and working hand in hand with it , the Nebraska doctrine , or what is left of it , is to educate and mold public opinion , at least Northern public opinion , not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up ...
Auxiliary to all this , and working hand in hand with it , the Nebraska doctrine , or what is left of it , is to educate and mold public opinion , at least Northern public opinion , not to care whether slavery is voted down or voted up ...
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They are trying to array all the Northern States in one body against the South , to excite a sectional war between the free States and the slave States , in order that the one or the other may be driven to the wall . MR . LINCOLN .
They are trying to array all the Northern States in one body against the South , to excite a sectional war between the free States and the slave States , in order that the one or the other may be driven to the wall . MR . LINCOLN .
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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