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Page 90
... Douglas's orders came on to have resolutions passed approving the bill ; and they were passed by large majorities !!! The truth of this is vouched for by a bolting Democratic member . The masses , too , Democratic as well as Whig , were ...
... Douglas's orders came on to have resolutions passed approving the bill ; and they were passed by large majorities !!! The truth of this is vouched for by a bolting Democratic member . The masses , too , Democratic as well as Whig , were ...
Page 96
... Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision , and in that respect I shall follow his example , believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney . He denounces all who question the correctness of that ...
... Douglas does not discuss the merits of the decision , and in that respect I shall follow his example , believing I could no more improve on McLean and Curtis than he could on Taney . He denounces all who question the correctness of that ...
Page 98
... Douglas brought for- ward his famous Nebraska bill . The country was at once in a blaze . He scorned all opposition , and carried it through Congress . Since then he has seen himself superseded in a presidential nomination by one ...
... Douglas brought for- ward his famous Nebraska bill . The country was at once in a blaze . He scorned all opposition , and carried it through Congress . Since then he has seen himself superseded in a presidential nomination by one ...
Page 99
... Douglas argue that the authors of that instrument did not intend to include negroes , by the fact that they did not at once actually place them on an equality with the whites . Now this grave argument comes to just nothing at all , by ...
... Douglas argue that the authors of that instrument did not intend to include negroes , by the fact that they did not at once actually place them on an equality with the whites . Now this grave argument comes to just nothing at all , by ...
Page 100
... object of that part of the Declaration of Independence which declares that " all men are created equal . " Now let us hear Judge Douglas's view of the same sub- ject , as I find it in the printed report 100 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... object of that part of the Declaration of Independence which declares that " all men are created equal . " Now let us hear Judge Douglas's view of the same sub- ject , as I find it in the printed report 100 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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