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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... Territories was left open in the Nebraska Act . Put that and that together , and we have another nice little niche , which we may ere long , see filled with another Supreme Court decision , declaring that the Constitution of the United ...
... Territories was left open in the Nebraska Act . Put that and that together , and we have another nice little niche , which we may ere long , see filled with another Supreme Court decision , declaring that the Constitution of the United ...
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... Territories . Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest ? And , unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia . " He has done all in his power to reduce the ...
... Territories . Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest ? And , unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia . " He has done all in his power to reduce the ...
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... Territorial slave code . We must prevent each of these things being done by either Congresses or Courts . THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES ARE THE RIGHTFUL MASTERS OF BOTH Congresses anD COURTS , not to overthrow the Constitution , but ...
... Territorial slave code . We must prevent each of these things being done by either Congresses or Courts . THE PEOPLE OF THESE UNITED STATES ARE THE RIGHTFUL MASTERS OF BOTH Congresses anD COURTS , not to overthrow the Constitution , but ...
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... division of local from federal authority , or any thing in the Constitution , forbid our Federal Government control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? 1 Speech at the Cooper Institute . Slavery and the Federal BEFORE THE NATION .
... division of local from federal authority , or any thing in the Constitution , forbid our Federal Government control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? 1 Speech at the Cooper Institute . Slavery and the Federal BEFORE THE NATION .
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... Territory , and no other the Congress of the Confederation had before them the 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 ...
... Territory , and no other the Congress of the Confederation had before them the 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 ...
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