A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections, Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands, with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H. V. Johnson, Etc., Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day; and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836 |
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... becoming citizens , and the owners of soil among us , ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the Alien and ... become so concentrated as to secure the choice of a Vice - President by the Electoral College . WHIG NATIONAL ...
... becoming citizens , and the owners of soil among us , ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the Alien and ... become so concentrated as to secure the choice of a Vice - President by the Electoral College . WHIG NATIONAL ...
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... becoming citizens and owners of the soil among us , ought to be resisted with inflexible determination . 16. That every nation has a clear right to alter or change its own government , and to administer its own concerns in such manner ...
... becoming citizens and owners of the soil among us , ought to be resisted with inflexible determination . 16. That every nation has a clear right to alter or change its own government , and to administer its own concerns in such manner ...
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... becomes our duty to main- tain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing Slavery in any territory of the United States , by positive legislation , prohibiting its existence or ...
... becomes our duty to main- tain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it for the purpose of establishing Slavery in any territory of the United States , by positive legislation , prohibiting its existence or ...
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... becoming citi- zens and the owners of soil among us ought to be re- sisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and se- dition laws from our statute books . And whereas , Since the foregoing declaration was uni- formly adopted by ...
... becoming citi- zens and the owners of soil among us ought to be re- sisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and se- dition laws from our statute books . And whereas , Since the foregoing declaration was uni- formly adopted by ...
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... become fearfully apparent in the agitation now convulsing the nation , and must be arrested at once if we would preserve our Constitution and our Union from dismemberment , and the name of America from being blotted out from the family ...
... become fearfully apparent in the agitation now convulsing the nation , and must be arrested at once if we would preserve our Constitution and our Union from dismemberment , and the name of America from being blotted out from the family ...
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