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Page 40
... territories settled itself according to the adaptation of the soil to slave labour . This is not a matter of sentiment or surmise , it is simply a matter of experience and history . The whole of the Northern free States were once " the ...
... territories settled itself according to the adaptation of the soil to slave labour . This is not a matter of sentiment or surmise , it is simply a matter of experience and history . The whole of the Northern free States were once " the ...
Page 41
... territories . Slavery will not go on to any of the present unappropriated territory of the nation , for the reason that it would not be profitable to go there , if it should so it would be certain to lose ; because the future States ...
... territories . Slavery will not go on to any of the present unappropriated territory of the nation , for the reason that it would not be profitable to go there , if it should so it would be certain to lose ; because the future States ...
Page 42
... territories , " that parties are " conducting to its inevitable solution . " 66 From the moment of the formation of the Federal Union there commenced a struggle for political power which has not ceased to be directed against the slave ...
... territories , " that parties are " conducting to its inevitable solution . " 66 From the moment of the formation of the Federal Union there commenced a struggle for political power which has not ceased to be directed against the slave ...
Page 43
... - sighted , since that territory has given more free than slave States to the Union . This threat of disunion was made while yet Massachusetts was engaged in the slave trade , that the State had voted to POLITICAL STRUGGLES . 43.
... - sighted , since that territory has given more free than slave States to the Union . This threat of disunion was made while yet Massachusetts was engaged in the slave trade , that the State had voted to POLITICAL STRUGGLES . 43.
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... territories now knocking for admission , there are seventy - two senators , of whom thirty - two only re- present the slave interest ; that interest from being " an unit " in the Senate , has sunk to a minority of four , and yet the ...
... territories now knocking for admission , there are seventy - two senators , of whom thirty - two only re- present the slave interest ; that interest from being " an unit " in the Senate , has sunk to a minority of four , and yet the ...
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