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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... organized , and a resolution offered to go into a ballot for candi- dates for President and Vice - President , Mr. Lewis D. Campbell , of Ohio , moved to amend as follows : Resolved , That no candidate shall be entitled to re- ceive the ...
... organized , and a resolution offered to go into a ballot for candi- dates for President and Vice - President , Mr. Lewis D. Campbell , of Ohio , moved to amend as follows : Resolved , That no candidate shall be entitled to re- ceive the ...
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... organization by which these great reforms have been achieved , and risk them in the hands of their known adversaries ... organizations heretofore existing , by nomi- nating for the Chief Magistracy of the United States , un- der the ...
... organization by which these great reforms have been achieved , and risk them in the hands of their known adversaries ... organizations heretofore existing , by nomi- nating for the Chief Magistracy of the United States , un- der the ...
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... organization as a party was effected . Resolved , That we demand Cheap Postage for the Peo- First . The government of the United States is of a ple ; a retrenchment of the expenses and patronage of limited character , and it is confined ...
... organization as a party was effected . Resolved , That we demand Cheap Postage for the Peo- First . The government of the United States is of a ple ; a retrenchment of the expenses and patronage of limited character , and it is confined ...
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... organized to aid either the Whig or Democratic wing of the great Slave Compromise party of the nation , but to defeat them both ; and that repudiating and renouncing both , as hopelessly corrupt , and utterly unworthy of confidence ...
... organized to aid either the Whig or Democratic wing of the great Slave Compromise party of the nation , but to defeat them both ; and that repudiating and renouncing both , as hopelessly corrupt , and utterly unworthy of confidence ...
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... organized at Phila- delphia , with 227 delegates in attendance , Maine , Vermont , Georgia , and South Carolina , being the only States not represented . Ephraim Marsh , of New - Jersey , was chosen to preside , and the Convention ...
... organized at Phila- delphia , with 227 delegates in attendance , Maine , Vermont , Georgia , and South Carolina , being the only States not represented . Ephraim Marsh , of New - Jersey , was chosen to preside , and the Convention ...
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