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Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandberg Roy Prentice Basler. alarmed . At length a compromise was made , in which , like all compromises , both sides yielded something . It was a law passed on the 6th day of March , 1820 , providing that Missouri ...
Abraham Lincoln, Carl Sandberg Roy Prentice Basler. alarmed . At length a compromise was made , in which , like all compromises , both sides yielded something . It was a law passed on the 6th day of March , 1820 , providing that Missouri ...
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... Missouri Compromise directly applies to it ; in fact , was first made , and has since been maintained , expressly for it . In 1853 , a bill to give it a territorial government passed the House of Representatives , and , in the hands of ...
... Missouri Compromise directly applies to it ; in fact , was first made , and has since been maintained , expressly for it . In 1853 , a bill to give it a territorial government passed the House of Representatives , and , in the hands of ...
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... Missouri Compromise , is found in the fact that there was then , and still is , an unorganized tract of fine country , nearly as large as the State of Missouri , lying immediately west of Arkansas , and south of the Missouri Com ...
... Missouri Compromise , is found in the fact that there was then , and still is , an unorganized tract of fine country , nearly as large as the State of Missouri , lying immediately west of Arkansas , and south of the Missouri Com ...
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Political Announcement | 53 |
Letter to Colonel Robert Allen June 21 1836 | 59 |
Letter to Miss Mary Owens May 7 1837 | 73 |
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