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... Senate , of which Mr. Douglas , of Illinois , was chairman , reported the bill , which made two territories- Nebraska and Kansas - instead of one , and which declared that the Missouri Compromise act was superseded by the Com- promise ...
... Senate , of which Mr. Douglas , of Illinois , was chairman , reported the bill , which made two territories- Nebraska and Kansas - instead of one , and which declared that the Missouri Compromise act was superseded by the Com- promise ...
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... Senators and Representatives who had actively supported him in his canvass ; among them the distinguished author of the Kansas- Nebraska bill , Mr. Douglas . In the month of July , 1855 , the Legislature of the Territory of Kansas had ...
... Senators and Representatives who had actively supported him in his canvass ; among them the distinguished author of the Kansas- Nebraska bill , Mr. Douglas . In the month of July , 1855 , the Legislature of the Territory of Kansas had ...
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... Senate , where there was still a majority of conservative and law - abiding men . On the 2d of February , 1858 , Mr. Buchanan , at the request of the President of the Lecompton Convention , transmitted to Congress an authentic copy of ...
... Senate , where there was still a majority of conservative and law - abiding men . On the 2d of February , 1858 , Mr. Buchanan , at the request of the President of the Lecompton Convention , transmitted to Congress an authentic copy of ...
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... Senate . In the House , an amendment , offered by Mr. Montgomery , of Pennsylvania , was adopted , to the effect that , as it was a disputed point whether the Constitution framed at Lecompton was fairly made , or ex- pressed the will of ...
... Senate . In the House , an amendment , offered by Mr. Montgomery , of Pennsylvania , was adopted , to the effect that , as it was a disputed point whether the Constitution framed at Lecompton was fairly made , or ex- pressed the will of ...
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... senator from New York , the " irrepressible conflict " between slavery and freedom was accomplished , and the soil of the Carolinas dedi- cated to the institutions of New England , it affected the inso- lent impertinence of regarding ...
... senator from New York , the " irrepressible conflict " between slavery and freedom was accomplished , and the soil of the Carolinas dedi- cated to the institutions of New England , it affected the inso- lent impertinence of regarding ...
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Southern History of the War: The Third Year of the War Edward Alfred Pollard No preview available - 2016 |
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