Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... KANSAS AD ASTRA PER ASPERA BOSTON HOUGHTON , MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York : 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press , Cambridge 1885 Stacks Vignaud Lib 3-25-1925 Copyright , 1885 , BY LEVERETT. American Commonwealths.
... KANSAS AD ASTRA PER ASPERA BOSTON HOUGHTON , MIFFLIN AND COMPANY New York : 11 East Seventeenth Street The Riverside Press , Cambridge 1885 Stacks Vignaud Lib 3-25-1925 Copyright , 1885 , BY LEVERETT. American Commonwealths.
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... Boston to Chicago by the light of my own effi- gies . " The immediate political consequences of the Kansas - Nebraska agitation were startling . It ut- terly overthrew the Whig party and reduced the Democratic party from national to ...
... Boston to Chicago by the light of my own effi- gies . " The immediate political consequences of the Kansas - Nebraska agitation were startling . It ut- terly overthrew the Whig party and reduced the Democratic party from national to ...
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... Boston , came to the rescue and ad- vanced out of his own pocket the funds necessary to put life into it . 99 No organization was ever effected under the first charter . It saddled objectionable monetary liabilities upon the individuals ...
... Boston , came to the rescue and ad- vanced out of his own pocket the funds necessary to put life into it . 99 No organization was ever effected under the first charter . It saddled objectionable monetary liabilities upon the individuals ...
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... Boston organiza- tion , in addition to the obvious advantages of as- sociated effort , were reduction in cost of trans- portation , oversight by competent conductors , in- vestments of capital in mills , hotels , and other improvements ...
... Boston organiza- tion , in addition to the obvious advantages of as- sociated effort , were reduction in cost of trans- portation , oversight by competent conductors , in- vestments of capital in mills , hotels , and other improvements ...
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... Boston organization cannot be adequately exhibited by arithmetical com- putations . A vital , capital part of it lay in spheres where mathematics are ineffectual lay in its alighting upon a feasible method , which was copied far and ...
... Boston organization cannot be adequately exhibited by arithmetical com- putations . A vital , capital part of it lay in spheres where mathematics are ineffectual lay in its alighting upon a feasible method , which was copied far and ...
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Page 222 - The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and the right of> the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page 138 - Tis time New hopes should animate the world, new light Should dawn from new revealings to a race Weighed down so long, forgotten so long...
Page 154 - ... about six o'clock next morning, when we prepared to attack them at once, on foot, leaving Frederick and one of Captain Shore's men to guard the horses. As I was much older than Captain Shore, the principal direction of the fight devolved on me. We got to within about a mile of their camp before being discovered by their scouts, and then moved at a brisk pace, Captain Shore and men forming our left, and my company the right. When within about sixty rods of the enemy. Captain Shore's men halted...
Page 6 - A few weeks afterward the committee of thirteen took those two bills and put a wafer between them, and reported them back to the Senate as one bill, with some slight amendments. One of these amendments was, that the Territorial Legislatures should not legislate upon the subject of African slavery. I objected to that provision...