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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... question of slavery to one of a mere right of property ; and as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave - trade - how can he refuse that trade in that ' property ' shall be ' perfectly free ' - unless he does it as a protection to ...
... question of slavery to one of a mere right of property ; and as such , how can he oppose the foreign slave - trade - how can he refuse that trade in that ' property ' shall be ' perfectly free ' - unless he does it as a protection to ...
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... question his motives , or do aught that can be per- sonally offensive to him . Whenever , if ever , he and we can come together on principle , so that our great cause may have assistance from his great ability , I hope to have inter ...
... question his motives , or do aught that can be per- sonally offensive to him . Whenever , if ever , he and we can come together on principle , so that our great cause may have assistance from his great ability , I hope to have inter ...
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... question just as well , and even better than we do now . ' I fully indorse this and I adopt it as a text for this dis- course . I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and agreed starting point for the discussion between ...
... question just as well , and even better than we do now . ' I fully indorse this and I adopt it as a text for this dis- course . I so adopt it because it furnishes a precise and agreed starting point for the discussion between ...
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... question of prohibiting slavery in that Territory ; and four of the thirty - nine ' who afterward framed the Constitu- tion were in that Congress , and voted on that question . Of these , Roger Sherman , Thomas Mifflin , and Hugh ...
... question of prohibiting slavery in that Territory ; and four of the thirty - nine ' who afterward framed the Constitu- tion were in that Congress , and voted on that question . Of these , Roger Sherman , Thomas Mifflin , and Hugh ...
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... question of federal control of slavery in the territories , seems not to have been directly before the Convention which framed the original Constitution ; and hence it is not recorded that the thirty - nine ' or any of them , while ...
... question of federal control of slavery in the territories , seems not to have been directly before the Convention which framed the original Constitution ; and hence it is not recorded that the thirty - nine ' or any of them , while ...
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