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11 IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES EACH DEALING WITH A SPECIFIC SUBJECT , AND CONTAINING A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN STATESMAN OR PUBLICIST VOLUME FIVE STATE RIGHTS ( 1798-1861 ) , SLAVERY ( 1858-1861 ) With an Introduction ...
11 IN FOURTEEN VOLUMES EACH DEALING WITH A SPECIFIC SUBJECT , AND CONTAINING A SPECIAL INTRODUCTION BY A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN STATESMAN OR PUBLICIST VOLUME FIVE STATE RIGHTS ( 1798-1861 ) , SLAVERY ( 1858-1861 ) With an Introduction ...
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Τ HE repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Dred Scott decision marked the high tide of victory for the South in the controversy upon slavery . It was soon seen , however , indeed it had been foreseen before their accomplishment ...
Τ HE repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the Dred Scott decision marked the high tide of victory for the South in the controversy upon slavery . It was soon seen , however , indeed it had been foreseen before their accomplishment ...
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Suppose Congress should pass an agrarian law , or a law emancipating our slaves , or should commit any other gross violation of our constitutional rights , will any gentleman contend that the decision of every branch of the Federal ...
Suppose Congress should pass an agrarian law , or a law emancipating our slaves , or should commit any other gross violation of our constitutional rights , will any gentleman contend that the decision of every branch of the Federal ...
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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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