Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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Page 63
... Lane , recently from Indiana , where he had obtained some notoriety . He participated in the Mexican war , was elected lieutenant - governor of Indiana in 1848 , and appeared in Congress as representative from that state in 1852. For ...
... Lane , recently from Indiana , where he had obtained some notoriety . He participated in the Mexican war , was elected lieutenant - governor of Indiana in 1848 , and appeared in Congress as representative from that state in 1852. For ...
Page 64
... the stranded Democratic movement , Lane intrigued himself into the chairmanship of a committee of thirteen to which the construction of a platform was intrusted . e ม 4 16 Only one — The question of slavery brought on an 64 KANSAS .
... the stranded Democratic movement , Lane intrigued himself into the chairmanship of a committee of thirteen to which the construction of a platform was intrusted . e ม 4 16 Only one — The question of slavery brought on an 64 KANSAS .
Page 66
... sonable prospect of success , ' then let the now shrinking and reluctant hostility be pushed to " a bloody issue . " The resolutions scourging the leg- 99 - islature evoked a response quite as rapturous as Lane's negrophobia 66 KANSAS .
... sonable prospect of success , ' then let the now shrinking and reluctant hostility be pushed to " a bloody issue . " The resolutions scourging the leg- 99 - islature evoked a response quite as rapturous as Lane's negrophobia 66 KANSAS .
Page 67
... Lane's negrophobia . - The first and only discord that jangled the har- monies at Big Springs occurred when a subject , incidental and subordinate to the special purposes of the convention , was reached — the question of establishing a ...
... Lane's negrophobia . - The first and only discord that jangled the har- monies at Big Springs occurred when a subject , incidental and subordinate to the special purposes of the convention , was reached — the question of establishing a ...
Page 68
... Lane's " black - law " platform and Reeder's heated declamation gave the enemy aid and com- fort . The unlucky " bloody - issue " phrase was worn threadbare in Congress and out of it by the incessant service to which administration ...
... Lane's " black - law " platform and Reeder's heated declamation gave the enemy aid and com- fort . The unlucky " bloody - issue " phrase was worn threadbare in Congress and out of it by the incessant service to which administration ...
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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...