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... resolutions for admission expressly leaving all questions of boundary to future adjustment . And , it may be added , that Texas herself is proved to have had the same understanding of it that our Congress had , by the fact of the exact ...
... resolutions for admission expressly leaving all questions of boundary to future adjustment . And , it may be added , that Texas herself is proved to have had the same understanding of it that our Congress had , by the fact of the exact ...
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... Resolutions of the Illinois Legislature , passed in 1851 , the repeal of the Missouri Com- promise was demanded . This I deny also . Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions , the people have never ...
... Resolutions of the Illinois Legislature , passed in 1851 , the repeal of the Missouri Com- promise was demanded . This I deny also . Whatever may be worked out by a criticism of the language of those resolutions , the people have never ...
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... resolutions . I then repeated the next proposition contained in the resolutions , which was to restrict slavery in those States in which it exists , and asked him whether he indorsed it . Does he answer yes , or no ? He says in reply ...
... resolutions . I then repeated the next proposition contained in the resolutions , which was to restrict slavery in those States in which it exists , and asked him whether he indorsed it . Does he answer yes , or no ? He says in reply ...
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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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