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[ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ) About a month after the introduction of the bill ( to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial governments ) on judge's own motion it ...
[ From a speech delivered in reply to Senator Stephen A. Douglas at Peoria , Illinois , 16 October 1854. ) About a month after the introduction of the bill ( to give Nebraska and Kansas territorial governments ) on judge's own motion it ...
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clusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me . ... Judge Douglas frequently , with bitter irony and sarcasm , paraphrases our argument by saying : “ The white people of Nebraska are good enough to ...
clusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me . ... Judge Douglas frequently , with bitter irony and sarcasm , paraphrases our argument by saying : “ The white people of Nebraska are good enough to ...
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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 ...
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Three years and a half ago , Judge Douglas brought forward 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 Since then he has seen himself superseded in a ...
Three years and a half ago , Judge Douglas brought forward 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 Since then he has seen himself superseded in a ...
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Chief Justice Taney , in his opinion in ... but he and Judge Douglas argue that the authors of that instrument did not intend to include negroes , by the fact that they did not at once actually place them on an equality with the whites ...
Chief Justice Taney , in his opinion in ... but he and Judge Douglas argue that the authors of that instrument did not intend to include negroes , by the fact that they did not at once actually place them on an equality with the whites ...
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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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