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... bill to give Nebraska territorial government . He accompanies this bill with a report , in which last , he expressly recommends that the Missouri Compromise shall neither be affirmed nor repealed . Before long the bill is so modified as ...
... bill to give Nebraska territorial government . He accompanies this bill with a report , in which last , he expressly recommends that the Missouri Compromise shall neither be affirmed nor repealed . Before long the bill is so modified as ...
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... bill of 1853 ? -Why was it omitted in the original bill of 1854 ? Why , in the accompanying report , was such a repeal characterized as a departure from the course pursued in 1850 ? and its continued omission recom- mended ? I am aware ...
... bill of 1853 ? -Why was it omitted in the original bill of 1854 ? Why , in the accompanying report , was such a repeal characterized as a departure from the course pursued in 1850 ? and its continued omission recom- mended ? I am aware ...
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... bill , he says , expelled slavery from Illinois . The principle of that bill first planted it here — that is , it first came , because there was no law to prevent it — first came before we owned the country ; and finding it here , and ...
... bill , he says , expelled slavery from Illinois . The principle of that bill first planted it here — that is , it first came , because there was no law to prevent it — first came before we owned the country ; and finding it here , and ...
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LINCOLNS DEVELOPMENT AS A WRITER | 1 |
Political Announcement | 53 |
of the House of Representatives at Springfield Illinois | 90 |
Copyright | |
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