Letters and Addresses of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 4Unit Book Publishing Company, 1905 - 389 pages |
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Page 136
... territory , and that I would support a proposition for the acquisition of additional territory according as my supporting it was or was not calculated to aggravate this slavery question amongst I then proposed to Judge Douglas another ...
... territory , and that I would support a proposition for the acquisition of additional territory according as my supporting it was or was not calculated to aggravate this slavery question amongst I then proposed to Judge Douglas another ...
Page 138
... territory thus acquired should have that prohibition in it , so far as the House of Representatives was concerned . But at last the President and Senate acquired the territory without asking the House of Representatives anything about ...
... territory thus acquired should have that prohibition in it , so far as the House of Representatives was concerned . But at last the President and Senate acquired the territory without asking the House of Representatives anything about ...
Page 139
... territory is needed as slave territory . Then it is as easy to show the necessity of additional slave - territory as it is to assert anything that is incapable of absolute demonstration . Whatever motive a man or a set of men may have ...
... territory is needed as slave territory . Then it is as easy to show the necessity of additional slave - territory as it is to assert anything that is incapable of absolute demonstration . Whatever motive a man or a set of men may have ...
Contents
FOURTH JOINT DEBATE AT CHARLESTON SEPTEMBER | 1 |
LINCOLNS REJOINDER | 23 |
VILLE | 80 |
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