Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) |
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The Kentucky Resolutions were primarily intended to promote the Jeffersonian campaign and to give it a platform . They professed to be an attack upon specific encroachments by the central Government . Their significance lies in the fact ...
The Kentucky Resolutions were primarily intended to promote the Jeffersonian campaign and to give it a platform . They professed to be an attack upon specific encroachments by the central Government . Their significance lies in the fact ...
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... determined desire for notoriety , proud , defiant , arrogant , audacious , unscrupulous , " Little Dug " ascended the platform and looked out impudently and carelessly on the immense throng which surged and struggled before him .
... determined desire for notoriety , proud , defiant , arrogant , audacious , unscrupulous , " Little Dug " ascended the platform and looked out impudently and carelessly on the immense throng which surged and struggled before him .
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In pursuance of the arrangement , the parties met at Springfield in October , 1854 , and proclaimed a platform for their new Republican party , which was thus to be constructed . Here is the most important and material resolution of ...
In pursuance of the arrangement , the parties met at Springfield in October , 1854 , and proclaimed a platform for their new Republican party , which was thus to be constructed . Here is the most important and material resolution of ...
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That these propositions , one and all , constitute the platform of the Black Republican party of this day , I have no doubt ; and when you were not aware for what purpose I was reading them , your Black Republicans cheered them as good ...
That these propositions , one and all , constitute the platform of the Black Republican party of this day , I have no doubt ; and when you were not aware for what purpose I was reading them , your Black Republicans cheered them as good ...
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He came up again in 1854 , just in time to make this Abolition or Black Republican platform , in company with Giddings , Lovejoy , Chase , and Fred Douglass , for the Republican party to stand upon . Having formed this new party for the ...
He came up again in 1854 , just in time to make this Abolition or Black Republican platform , in company with Giddings , Lovejoy , Chase , and Fred Douglass , for the Republican party to stand upon . Having formed this new party for the ...
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