Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Volume 1Century Company, 1902 - United States |
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... legislature is doing little or nothing . The governor delivered an inflammatory political message , and it is expected there will be some sparring between the parties about it as soon as the two Houses get to business . Taylor delivered ...
... legislature is doing little or nothing . The governor delivered an inflammatory political message , and it is expected there will be some sparring between the parties about it as soon as the two Houses get to business . Taylor delivered ...
Page 10
... legislature passed but a single year before . Next , negroes suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State ; then , white men supposed to be leagued with the negroes ; and finally ...
... legislature passed but a single year before . Next , negroes suspected of conspiring to raise an insurrection were caught up and hanged in all parts of the State ; then , white men supposed to be leagued with the negroes ; and finally ...
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... LEGISLATURE ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY . March 3 , 1837 . The following protest was presented to the House , which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals , to wit : Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having ...
... LEGISLATURE ON THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY . March 3 , 1837 . The following protest was presented to the House , which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals , to wit : Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having ...
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... LEGISLATURE . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , January 17 , 1839 . Mr. Lincoln , from Committee on Finance , to which the subject was referred , made a report on the subject of purchasing of the United States all the unsold lands lying ...
... LEGISLATURE . IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , January 17 , 1839 . Mr. Lincoln , from Committee on Finance , to which the subject was referred , made a report on the subject of purchasing of the United States all the unsold lands lying ...
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... legislature from the country in which the lands lie would be opposed to raising the price , because it would operate against the settlement of the lands . He referred to the lands in the military tract . They had fallen into the hands ...
... legislature from the country in which the lands lie would be opposed to raising the price , because it would operate against the settlement of the lands . He referred to the lands in the military tract . They had fallen into the hands ...
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