Anecdotes of Public Men, Volume 1Harper, 1873 - Statesmen |
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... slavery question , at least for the time , by even - handed justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in ...
... slavery question , at least for the time , by even - handed justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in ...
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... slavery majority in the House , and had given prospective and substantial freedom to Kansas . Our little pha- lanx had made a breach in the columns of the Democracy that was to widen into a chasm never to be closed . California was to ...
... slavery majority in the House , and had given prospective and substantial freedom to Kansas . Our little pha- lanx had made a breach in the columns of the Democracy that was to widen into a chasm never to be closed . California was to ...
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... slavery Democrat leader , David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the 16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed ...
... slavery Democrat leader , David S. Terry , who was living at the last accounts in the State of Nevada . The Democrats carried the election on the 7th , and the heroic Broderick died on the 16th . But the blood of the martyr was the seed ...
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... slavery , or rather a profound devotion to the Union , in his nature . Take his campaign against the Nullifiers of the South in 1850 , when he ran as an independent candi- date for governor of Georgia , and was elected over Charles J ...
... slavery , or rather a profound devotion to the Union , in his nature . Take his campaign against the Nullifiers of the South in 1850 , when he ran as an independent candi- date for governor of Georgia , and was elected over Charles J ...
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... slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he had just attained his 30th year , and I was in ...
... slavery . When he came to Washing- ton in 1851 as a Representative from the old Henry Clay Lex- ington district , in Kentucky , he was in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he had just attained his 30th year , and I was in ...
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