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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... amendment , instructing the Committee to intro- duce a bill not for the abolition of the slave - trade , but of slavery , within the District : - Resolved , That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to report a bill ...
... amendment , instructing the Committee to intro- duce a bill not for the abolition of the slave - trade , but of slavery , within the District : - Resolved , That the Committee on the District of Columbia be instructed to report a bill ...
Page 53
... amendment . While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress , a law - case , in- volving the question of a negro's freedom , by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then into a Territory cov ...
... amendment . While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress , a law - case , in- volving the question of a negro's freedom , by reason of his owner having voluntarily taken him first into a free State and then into a Territory cov ...
Page 65
... to establish slavery or exclude it , was really only a desire to allow them to establish it , as was shown by his voting against Mr Б Chase's amendment to the Nebraska bill , which gave the STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 65.
... to establish slavery or exclude it , was really only a desire to allow them to establish it , as was shown by his voting against Mr Б Chase's amendment to the Nebraska bill , which gave the STATE PAPERS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN . 65.
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... amendment to the Nebraska bill , which gave the leave to exclude it . In the third debate , which took place at Jonesboro , Mr. Lincoln showed that Douglas and his friends were trying to change the position of the country on the slavery ...
... amendment to the Nebraska bill , which gave the leave to exclude it . In the third debate , which took place at Jonesboro , Mr. Lincoln showed that Douglas and his friends were trying to change the position of the country on the slavery ...
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... amendments , the first ten of which were framed in 1789 . Who were our fathers that framed the Constitution ? I suppose the " thirty - nine " who signed the original instrument may be fairly called our fathers who framed that part of ...
... amendments , the first ten of which were framed in 1789 . Who were our fathers that framed the Constitution ? I suppose the " thirty - nine " who signed the original instrument may be fairly called our fathers who framed that part of ...
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