The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States; and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation Thereto |
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... question of slavery in the Territories was made a chief element in the South ( see next chapter ) for urg- ing the people into rebellion . Dr. Thornwell but announces the new doctrine on this point upon which rebel statesmen and the ...
... question of slavery in the Territories was made a chief element in the South ( see next chapter ) for urg- ing the people into rebellion . Dr. Thornwell but announces the new doctrine on this point upon which rebel statesmen and the ...
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... question touching slavery upon which the Presidential election turned , was concerning its status in the Territories . Congress , before its close on the 4th To this proposition to amend the Constitution , President Lincoln referred in ...
... question touching slavery upon which the Presidential election turned , was concerning its status in the Territories . Congress , before its close on the 4th To this proposition to amend the Constitution , President Lincoln referred in ...
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... question was left open to the decision of the people in each Territory when they should form their respective State Constitutions ; thus practically allowing to the South all that had been yielded by the decision of the Supreme Court in ...
... question was left open to the decision of the people in each Territory when they should form their respective State Constitutions ; thus practically allowing to the South all that had been yielded by the decision of the Supreme Court in ...
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... question I now say nothing . But , manifestly , the alternative is , that all this is wrong , and an aggression which the South ought not to suffer ; or that if right , in absolving us from the obligations to the South which have been ...
... question I now say nothing . But , manifestly , the alternative is , that all this is wrong , and an aggression which the South ought not to suffer ; or that if right , in absolving us from the obligations to the South which have been ...
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... question to a popular vote was but a burlesque on the elective franchise . We men- tion facts which are too recent and too familiar to be doubted , and only refer to them to exhibit another of the striking characteristics of the ...
... question to a popular vote was but a burlesque on the elective franchise . We men- tion facts which are too recent and too familiar to be doubted , and only refer to them to exhibit another of the striking characteristics of the ...
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