Abraham Lincoln and His Presidency, Volume 1R. Clarke Company, 1904 |
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... thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields and Richardson , politically speaking , successively tried , convicted and executed for an offense not their own , but his . And now he sees his own case standing ...
... thousand votes . He has seen his chief aids in his own State , Shields and Richardson , politically speaking , successively tried , convicted and executed for an offense not their own , but his . And now he sees his own case standing ...
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... thousand strong . We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger , with every external circumstance against us . Of strange , discordant , and even hostile elements , we gathered from the four winds , and formed ...
... thousand strong . We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger , with every external circumstance against us . Of strange , discordant , and even hostile elements , we gathered from the four winds , and formed ...
Page 173
... thousand eman- cipated slaves into Illinois , to become citizens and voters , on an equality with yourselves ? . . . For one , I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form . I be- lieve this Government was made on the white ...
... thousand eman- cipated slaves into Illinois , to become citizens and voters , on an equality with yourselves ? . . . For one , I am opposed to negro citizenship in any and every form . I be- lieve this Government was made on the white ...
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... thousand- would you vote to admit them ? Question 2. Can the people of a United States Territory , in any lawful way , against the wish of any citizen of the . United States , exclude slavery from its limits ? Question 3. If the Supreme ...
... thousand- would you vote to admit them ? Question 2. Can the people of a United States Territory , in any lawful way , against the wish of any citizen of the . United States , exclude slavery from its limits ? Question 3. If the Supreme ...
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... thousand , shall be decided by that Court to be slaves , we will in any violent way disturb the rights of property thus settled ; but we nevertheless do oppose that decision as a political rule , which shall be binding on the voter to ...
... thousand , shall be decided by that Court to be slaves , we will in any violent way disturb the rights of property thus settled ; but we nevertheless do oppose that decision as a political rule , which shall be binding on the voter to ...
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