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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... citizens , and the owners of soil among us , ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the Alien and Sedition Laws from our statute book . The Convention then unanimously nominated Mr. Van Buren for reëlection as President ...
... citizens , and the owners of soil among us , ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the Alien and Sedition Laws from our statute book . The Convention then unanimously nominated Mr. Van Buren for reëlection as President ...
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... citizens to form a Resolved , That the General Government has , under part of such military force . When freemen unsheath the the Constitution , no power to establish or continue sword it should be to strike for Liberty , not for Despot ...
... citizens to form a Resolved , That the General Government has , under part of such military force . When freemen unsheath the the Constitution , no power to establish or continue sword it should be to strike for Liberty , not for Despot ...
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... citizens for the rectitude of their intentions , renew and reassert before the American people , the declaration of principles avowed by them , on a former occasion , when in general convention , they presented their candidates for the ...
... citizens for the rectitude of their intentions , renew and reassert before the American people , the declaration of principles avowed by them , on a former occasion , when in general convention , they presented their candidates for the ...
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... citizens and the owners of soil among us , ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and ... citizen should have shown himself opposed to his country , and neither morally nor physically , by word or deed , given ...
... citizens and the owners of soil among us , ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and ... citizen should have shown himself opposed to his country , and neither morally nor physically , by word or deed , given ...
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... citizens of each . State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immuni- ties of citizens in the several States , " the practice of imprisoning colored seamen of other States , while the vessels to which they belong lie in port ...
... citizens of each . State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immuni- ties of citizens in the several States , " the practice of imprisoning colored seamen of other States , while the vessels to which they belong lie in port ...
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