The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 4Houghton, Mifflin, 1888 - Legislators |
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... Missouri Compromise , 24 - Mr . Seward's Speeches , 27 - The New England Clergymen , 29 - The Pacific Railroad and ... Missouri - CHILLICOTHE , 97 — St . JOSEPH , 98 - In Kansas - LEAVENWORTH , 100 - LAWRENCE , 101 - LEAVENWORTH , 102 ...
... Missouri Compromise , 24 - Mr . Seward's Speeches , 27 - The New England Clergymen , 29 - The Pacific Railroad and ... Missouri - CHILLICOTHE , 97 — St . JOSEPH , 98 - In Kansas - LEAVENWORTH , 100 - LAWRENCE , 101 - LEAVENWORTH , 102 ...
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... Missouri compromise of 1820 , which guarantied that slavery should be forever excluded from the territory in question . But , in order to bring the supporters of the bill and its opponents to a more decided test , an amendment was moved ...
... Missouri compromise of 1820 , which guarantied that slavery should be forever excluded from the territory in question . But , in order to bring the supporters of the bill and its opponents to a more decided test , an amendment was moved ...
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... Missouri , Cullom , Etheridge and Taylor of Tennessee , Hunt of Louisiana , Millson of Virginia , Puryear and Rogers of North Carolina , voted against the mea- sures . With these exceptions the bill was supported by the democrats of the ...
... Missouri , Cullom , Etheridge and Taylor of Tennessee , Hunt of Louisiana , Millson of Virginia , Puryear and Rogers of North Carolina , voted against the mea- sures . With these exceptions the bill was supported by the democrats of the ...
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William Henry Seward George E. Baker. Thus was abrogated the Missouri compromise - a law enacted thirty years before with all the solemnity of a compact between the free and the slave states -- and a territory as ... MISSOURI COMPROMISE . 27.
William Henry Seward George E. Baker. Thus was abrogated the Missouri compromise - a law enacted thirty years before with all the solemnity of a compact between the free and the slave states -- and a territory as ... MISSOURI COMPROMISE . 27.
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... Missouri com- promise . The remaining thirty - seven members , classed as whigs or Americans , were generally supposed to sympathize with the admin- istration in its pro - slavery character , although unwilling to be classed as its ...
... Missouri com- promise . The remaining thirty - seven members , classed as whigs or Americans , were generally supposed to sympathize with the admin- istration in its pro - slavery character , although unwilling to be classed as its ...
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