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... ANTI- SLAVERY VIEWS.- PROGRESS OF FREEDOM . WORDS OF GARRISON AND HON . MR . ARNOLD . FREMONT'S AND HUNTER'S PROCLAMA- TIONS . MR . LINCOLN'S TOLERANT POLICY . — RECONSTRUCTION . — THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT . — VOICE FROM THE ...
... ANTI- SLAVERY VIEWS.- PROGRESS OF FREEDOM . WORDS OF GARRISON AND HON . MR . ARNOLD . FREMONT'S AND HUNTER'S PROCLAMA- TIONS . MR . LINCOLN'S TOLERANT POLICY . — RECONSTRUCTION . — THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT . — VOICE FROM THE ...
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... antislavery . If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . I cannot remember when I did not see , think , and feel that it was wrong ; and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act ...
... antislavery . If slavery is not wrong , nothing is wrong . I cannot remember when I did not see , think , and feel that it was wrong ; and yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act ...
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... antislavery antecedents to show that he would not favor the " peculiar institution " of the South . 2. In Congress he distinguished himself as an antislavery man by introducing an amendment to a bill relating to the slave - trade in the ...
... antislavery antecedents to show that he would not favor the " peculiar institution " of the South . 2. In Congress he distinguished himself as an antislavery man by introducing an amendment to a bill relating to the slave - trade in the ...
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... antislavery ought to be content with these results . Mr. Garrison says , in sup- porting Mr. Lincoln's Administration , " I think every thing looks auspicious for our country . It seems to me that the omens are all good , and that we ...
... antislavery ought to be content with these results . Mr. Garrison says , in sup- porting Mr. Lincoln's Administration , " I think every thing looks auspicious for our country . It seems to me that the omens are all good , and that we ...
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... antislavery measures : more , I think , have blamed him for going too slow , of which I have been one . History will perhaps give him credit for acting with great and wise discretion . The calm , intelligent , philosophic abolitionists ...
... antislavery measures : more , I think , have blamed him for going too slow , of which I have been one . History will perhaps give him credit for acting with great and wise discretion . The calm , intelligent , philosophic abolitionists ...
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