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It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I acknowledge them ...
It does seem to me that systems of gradual emancipation might be adopted , but for their tardiness in this I will not undertake to judge our brethren of the South . When they remind us of their constitutional rights , I acknowledge them ...
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The signal failure of Henry Clay and other good and great men , in 1849 , to effect anything in favor of gradual emancipation in Kentucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly .
The signal failure of Henry Clay and other good and great men , in 1849 , to effect anything in favor of gradual emancipation in Kentucky , together with a thousand other signs , extinguished that hope utterly .
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In those days , as I understand , masters could , at their own pleasure , emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures ...
In those days , as I understand , masters could , at their own pleasure , emancipate their slaves ; but since then such legal restraints have been made upon emancipation as to amount almost to prohibition . In those days legislatures ...
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Henry Clay , my beau ideal of a statesman , the man for whom I fought all my humble life - Henry Clay once said of a class of men who would repress all tendencies to liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do ...
Henry Clay , my beau ideal of a statesman , the man for whom I fought all my humble life - Henry Clay once said of a class of men who would repress all tendencies to liberty and ultimate emancipation , that they must , if they would do ...
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In the language of Mr. Jefferson , uttered many years ago , " It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably , and in such slow degrees , as that the evil will wear off insensibly ; and their ...
In the language of Mr. Jefferson , uttered many years ago , " It is still in our power to direct the process of emancipation and deportation peaceably , and in such slow degrees , as that the evil will wear off insensibly ; and their ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln ... Issue 2 of The unit books The unit books, no.2 |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Publisher | H.W. Bell, 1903 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 9 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 399 pages |
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