Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... Slavery Is Right . Debate in the Senate on Investigation of the Attack : Demo- cratic speakers , JAMES M. MASON ( Va ... SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES ( The Issue in the Presi- dential Campaign of 1860 ) Tilt in the Charleston ( Democratic ) ...
... Slavery Is Right . Debate in the Senate on Investigation of the Attack : Demo- cratic speakers , JAMES M. MASON ( Va ... SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES ( The Issue in the Presi- dential Campaign of 1860 ) Tilt in the Charleston ( Democratic ) ...
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... slave and half free . I do not expect the Union to be dis- solved I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided . It will become all one thing , or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will ...
... slave and half free . I do not expect the Union to be dis- solved I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided . It will become all one thing , or all the other . Either the opponents of slavery will ...
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... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
... slave , imported as such from Africa , and no descendant of such slave , can ever be a citizen of any State , in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States . This point is made in order to deprive the negro ...
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... slavery from their limits , just as Chase and Mace sought to get such declaration , in behalf of the people of a Ter ... slave State . To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty is the work now before all who would prevent that con ...
... slavery from their limits , just as Chase and Mace sought to get such declaration , in behalf of the people of a Ter ... slave State . To meet and overthrow the power of that dynasty is the work now before all who would prevent that con ...
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... slavery to one of a mere right of property ; and , as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave - trade ? How can he refuse that trade in that " property " shall be " perfectly free , " unless he does it as a protection to the home ...
... slavery to one of a mere right of property ; and , as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave - trade ? How can he refuse that trade in that " property " shall be " perfectly free , " unless he does it as a protection to the home ...
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