Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States: Containing His Early History and Political Career; Together with the Speeches, Messages, Proclamations and Other Official Documents Illustrative of His Eventful Administration |
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... South . John Brown . have considerable variety of new propositions and plans , but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers . Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave - trade ; some , for a ...
... South . John Brown . have considerable variety of new propositions and plans , but you are unanimous in rejecting and denouncing the old policy of the fathers . Some of you are for reviving the foreign slave - trade ; some , for a ...
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... South Carolina's Movements - Buchanan's pusillanimity - Secession of states - Con- federate Constitution - Peace Convention - Constitutional Amendments - Terms of the Rebels . • On the 16th of May , 1860 , the Republican National Con ...
... South Carolina's Movements - Buchanan's pusillanimity - Secession of states - Con- federate Constitution - Peace Convention - Constitutional Amendments - Terms of the Rebels . • On the 16th of May , 1860 , the Republican National Con ...
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... South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi , Arkansas , and Texas , 72 in all ; and Bell , 590,631 , and the votes of Virginia , Kentucky , and Tennessee , 39 in all . And now was to be tested whether words ...
... South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Louisiana , Mississippi , Arkansas , and Texas , 72 in all ; and Bell , 590,631 , and the votes of Virginia , Kentucky , and Tennessee , 39 in all . And now was to be tested whether words ...
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... South Carolina Secedes . Attempts at Compromise . ignominy from which centuries of unquestioned loyalty can- not free her was taking the requisite steps toward secession , the then President , James Buchanan , with a pusillanimity- to ...
... South Carolina Secedes . Attempts at Compromise . ignominy from which centuries of unquestioned loyalty can- not free her was taking the requisite steps toward secession , the then President , James Buchanan , with a pusillanimity- to ...
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... South Carolina , without the consent of her people , and with hostile intent toward them , be invasion ? I certainly think it would , and it would be coercion also , if the South Carolinians were forced to The Rights of States ...
... South Carolina , without the consent of her people , and with hostile intent toward them , be invasion ? I certainly think it would , and it would be coercion also , if the South Carolinians were forced to The Rights of States ...
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