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... slavery , Douglas made the mistake of trying to sidetrack a great moral problem by leaving it to local determination ... slave state with accompanying legislation providing that elsewhere in the territory of the Louisi- ana Purchase ...
... slavery , Douglas made the mistake of trying to sidetrack a great moral problem by leaving it to local determination ... slave state with accompanying legislation providing that elsewhere in the territory of the Louisi- ana Purchase ...
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... slaves , and pro- hibits any person from being deprived of property without due process of law , to pass an act of Congress by which a man who owned a slave on one side of a line would be deprived of him if he took him on the other side ...
... slaves , and pro- hibits any person from being deprived of property without due process of law , to pass an act of Congress by which a man who owned a slave on one side of a line would be deprived of him if he took him on the other side ...
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... slave law , is the right to have fugitive slaves reclaimed any better fixed in the Constitution than the right to hold slaves in the Territories ? For this decision is a just exposi- tion of the Constitution as Judge Douglas thinks . Is ...
... slave law , is the right to have fugitive slaves reclaimed any better fixed in the Constitution than the right to hold slaves in the Territories ? For this decision is a just exposi- tion of the Constitution as Judge Douglas thinks . Is ...
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PREFACE PART ITHE REPUBLICAN PARTY 1 Crisis and a New Party 73 | 7 |
1856 | 17 |
The Rise of Lincoln | 23 |
Copyright | |
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