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... Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial governments ] on the judge's own motion it is so amended as to declare the Missouri Compromise ...
... Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ] About a month after the introduction of the bill [ to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial governments ] on the judge's own motion it is so amended as to declare the Missouri Compromise ...
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... Judge Douglas frequently , with bitter irony and sarcasm , paraphrases our argument by saying : " The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves , but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes ...
... Judge Douglas frequently , with bitter irony and sarcasm , paraphrases our argument by saying : " The white people of Nebraska are good enough to govern themselves , but they are not good enough to govern a few miserable negroes ...
Page 96
... Judge Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision , and in that respect I shall follow his example , believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney . He denounces all who question the correctness ...
... Judge Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision , and in that respect I shall follow his example , believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney . He denounces all who question the correctness ...
Page 98
... Judge Douglas brought for- ward his famous Nebraska bill . The country was at once in a blaze . He scorned all opposition , and carried it through Congress . Since then he has seen himself superseded in a presidential nomination by one ...
... Judge Douglas brought for- ward his famous Nebraska bill . The country was at once in a blaze . He scorned all opposition , and carried it through Congress . Since then he has seen himself superseded in a presidential nomination by one ...
Page 99
... Justice Taney , in his opinion in the Dred Scott case , admits that the language of the Declaration is broad enough to include the whole human family , but he and Judge Douglas argue that the authors of that instrument did not intend to ...
... Justice Taney , in his opinion in the Dred Scott case , admits that the language of the Declaration is broad enough to include the whole human family , but he and Judge Douglas argue that the authors of that instrument did not intend to ...
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| Title | Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln American Civil War, letters and diaries Half-title: The unit books, no. 2 Issue 2 of The Unit books |
| Author | Abraham Lincoln |
| Editor | Mary Maclean |
| Publisher | Unit Book Publishing Company, 1907 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2011 |
| Length | 385 pages |
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