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... Nebraska bill , passed in 1854 , which gave the Territories the right to decide whether they would have slavery . The Dred Scott decision was published by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 , and was > the effect that a ...
... Nebraska bill , passed in 1854 , which gave the Territories the right to decide whether they would have slavery . The Dred Scott decision was published by the Supreme Court of the United States in 1857 , and was > the effect that a ...
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... Nebraska bill . The country was at once in a blaze . He scorned all opposition , and carried it through Congress . Since then he has seen himself superseded in a presidential nomination by one indorsing the general doctrine of his ...
... Nebraska bill . The country was at once in a blaze . He scorned all opposition , and carried it through Congress . Since then he has seen himself superseded in a presidential nomination by one indorsing the general doctrine of his ...
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... Nebraska bill itself , in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legis- late slavery into any Territory or State , nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly ...
... Nebraska bill itself , in the language which follows : " It being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legis- late slavery into any Territory or State , nor to exclude it therefrom ; but to leave the people thereof perfectly ...
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... bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Terri- tory may exclude slavery . Not we , " said the friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress , a law case ...
... bill so as to expressly declare that the people of the Terri- tory may exclude slavery . Not we , " said the friends of the measure ; and down they voted the amendment . While the Nebraska bill was passing through Congress , a law case ...
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... Nebraska bill finds an early occasion to make a speech at this cap- ital indorsing the Dred Scott decision , and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it . The new President , too , seizes the early occa- sion of the Silliman letter ...
... Nebraska bill finds an early occasion to make a speech at this cap- ital indorsing the Dred Scott decision , and vehemently denouncing all opposition to it . The new President , too , seizes the early occa- sion of the Silliman letter ...
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