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Page 90
... election you will vote for the exact type and representative of Stringfellow . The slave - breeders and slave - traders are a small , odious , and detested class among you ; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you ...
... election you will vote for the exact type and representative of Stringfellow . The slave - breeders and slave - traders are a small , odious , and detested class among you ; and yet in politics they dictate the course of all of you ...
Page 93
... election . He considers the result a signal triumph of good principles and good men , and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones . He says the people did it . He forgets that the " people , " as he complacently calls only those who voted for ...
... election . He considers the result a signal triumph of good principles and good men , and a very pointed rebuke of bad ones . He says the people did it . He forgets that the " people , " as he complacently calls only those who voted for ...
Page 94
... election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a central idea may be the 94 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
... election was a struggle by one party to discard that central idea and to substitute for it the op- posite idea that slavery is right in the abstract , the work- ings of which as a central idea may be the 94 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
Page 95
... election can in- augurate it . To us it is left to know that the majority of the people have not yet declared for it , and to hope that they never will . All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan , taken together , are a majority of ...
... election can in- augurate it . To us it is left to know that the majority of the people have not yet declared for it , and to hope that they never will . All of us who did not vote for Mr. Buchanan , taken together , are a majority of ...
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... election , by a mere plurality , and of doubtful significance , brought one Supreme Court decision that no power can exclude slavery from a Territory , how much more shall a public sentiment , in exact accordance with the sentiments of ...
... election , by a mere plurality , and of doubtful significance , brought one Supreme Court decision that no power can exclude slavery from a Territory , how much more shall a public sentiment , in exact accordance with the sentiments of ...
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