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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... Holds that capital should own the laborer , in a speech at Philadelphia in 1856. His Report affirming the absolute right of holding slaves in the Territories .. JOHNSON , RICHARD M. , of Kentucky , beaten in Convention for Vice ...
... Holds that capital should own the laborer , in a speech at Philadelphia in 1856. His Report affirming the absolute right of holding slaves in the Territories .. JOHNSON , RICHARD M. , of Kentucky , beaten in Convention for Vice ...
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... hold a Convention in the city of Washington on the following May . Such a Convention was accordingly held at the Capital on the 11th of May , 1832 , over which William Cost Johnson , of Maryland , pre- other sided , and at which the ...
... hold a Convention in the city of Washington on the following May . Such a Convention was accordingly held at the Capital on the 11th of May , 1832 , over which William Cost Johnson , of Maryland , pre- other sided , and at which the ...
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... hold men as property within the limits of ex- clusive national jurisdiction , ought to be prohibited by law ... holds that " any contract that rests upon such a basis is void ; " and , Whereas , The third clause of the second section of ...
... hold men as property within the limits of ex- clusive national jurisdiction , ought to be prohibited by law ... holds that " any contract that rests upon such a basis is void ; " and , Whereas , The third clause of the second section of ...
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... hold and maintain the rights of every State , and thereby the Union of States , and to sustain and advance among them constitutional liberty , by continuing to resist all monopolies and exclusive legislation for the benefit of the few ...
... hold and maintain the rights of every State , and thereby the Union of States , and to sustain and advance among them constitutional liberty , by continuing to resist all monopolies and exclusive legislation for the benefit of the few ...
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... hold it to be a self - evident truth , that all men are endowed with the inalienable rights to life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , and that the primary object and ulterior de- signs of our Federal Government were , to secure ...
... hold it to be a self - evident truth , that all men are endowed with the inalienable rights to life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , and that the primary object and ulterior de- signs of our Federal Government were , to secure ...
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