Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... QUESTION . Situation of the President - His Policy - Gradual Emancipation - Message - Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia - Repudiation of Gen. Hunter's Emancipation Order -Conference with Congressmen from the Border Slave ...
... QUESTION . Situation of the President - His Policy - Gradual Emancipation - Message - Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia - Repudiation of Gen. Hunter's Emancipation Order -Conference with Congressmen from the Border Slave ...
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... question on abandoning the war , without any material result accom- plished , he voted with the minority in favor of laying that resolution upon the table . In all questions bearing upon the matter of internal improvements , he took an ...
... question on abandoning the war , without any material result accom- plished , he voted with the minority in favor of laying that resolution upon the table . In all questions bearing upon the matter of internal improvements , he took an ...
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... and down they voted the amend- ment . " While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by The Dred Scott Case . In the Supreme Court . IN CONGRESS AND ON THE STUMP . 23.
... and down they voted the amend- ment . " While the Nebraska Bill was passing through Congress , a law case , involving the question of a negro's freedom , by The Dred Scott Case . In the Supreme Court . IN CONGRESS AND ON THE STUMP . 23.
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... question of fact , whether the Lecompton Consti- tution was or was not , in any just sense , made by the people of Kansas ; and , in that squabble , the latter declares that all be wants is a fair vote for the people , and that he cares ...
... question of fact , whether the Lecompton Consti- tution was or was not , in any just sense , made by the people of Kansas ; and , in that squabble , the latter declares that all be wants is a fair vote for the people , and that he cares ...
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... question , pre- cisely as the same question , as to the restraint on the power of the Territories was left open in the Nebraska Act . Put that and that together , and we have another nice little niche , which we may ere long , see ...
... question , pre- cisely as the same question , as to the restraint on the power of the Territories was left open in the Nebraska Act . Put that and that together , and we have another nice little niche , which we may ere long , see ...
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