The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln ...: Together with His State Papers, Including His Speeches, Addresses, Messages, Letters, and Proclamations, and the Closing Scenes Connected with His Life and DeathIncludes added anecdotes and personal reminiscences of President Lincoln, by F.B. Carpenter. |
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... north and east . 5th . Whether the people of that settlement , or a majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States , by consent or by compulsion , either by ...
... north and east . 5th . Whether the people of that settlement , or a majority of them , or any of them , have ever submitted themselves to the government or laws of Texas or of the United States , by consent or by compulsion , either by ...
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... North Carolina— that then gave the free negro the right of voting , the right has since been taken away ; and in the third - New York - it has been greatly abridged , while it has not been extended , so far as I know , to a single ...
... North Carolina— that then gave the free negro the right of voting , the right has since been taken away ; and in the third - New York - it has been greatly abridged , while it has not been extended , so far as I know , to a single ...
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... North . Judge Douglas had sustained the Dred Scott decision , but he could not sustain this attempt to force upon the people of Kansas a Constitution against their will . He took ground openly and boldly against it — denouncing it in ...
... North . Judge Douglas had sustained the Dred Scott decision , but he could not sustain this attempt to force upon the people of Kansas a Constitution against their will . He took ground openly and boldly against it — denouncing it in ...
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... North as well as South . Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost com plete legal combination -- piece of machinery , so to speak - compounded of the Nebraska doctrine ...
... North as well as South . Have we no tendency to the latter condition ? Let any one who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost com plete legal combination -- piece of machinery , so to speak - compounded of the Nebraska doctrine ...
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... North upon the South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of inviting ( as he expresses it ) the South to a war upon the North , for the purpose of nationalizing slavery . Now , it is singular enough , if you will ...
... North upon the South for the extinction of slavery ; that I am also in favor of inviting ( as he expresses it ) the South to a war upon the North , for the purpose of nationalizing slavery . Now , it is singular enough , if you will ...
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