Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... United States , peopling the territories , have plenary jurisdiction over all their domestic institutions . The debate which instantly sprang up on the reappearance of the slavery question in Congress -inferior to none of its ...
... United States , peopling the territories , have plenary jurisdiction over all their domestic institutions . The debate which instantly sprang up on the reappearance of the slavery question in Congress -inferior to none of its ...
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... United States pur- chased it of Napoleon Bonaparte , in 1803 , the ter- ritory dropped almost completely out of the knowl- edge of mankind - glided back into the blankness and vacuity of a terra incognita . The expeditions of 20 KANSAS .
... United States pur- chased it of Napoleon Bonaparte , in 1803 , the ter- ritory dropped almost completely out of the knowl- edge of mankind - glided back into the blankness and vacuity of a terra incognita . The expeditions of 20 KANSAS .
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... United States territory one century . " But the region could not support white men in large numbers even along " the rivers Kanses , La Platte , Arkansaw and their branches . . . . The wood now in the country would not be sufficient for ...
... United States territory one century . " But the region could not support white men in large numbers even along " the rivers Kanses , La Platte , Arkansaw and their branches . . . . The wood now in the country would not be sufficient for ...
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... United States at large , is attributable as a primary cause to the ac- tion of the Emigrant Aid Society of Massachu- setts . " Senator Green , of Missouri , said in 1861 , long after the Kansas question had been practi- cally settled ...
... United States at large , is attributable as a primary cause to the ac- tion of the Emigrant Aid Society of Massachu- setts . " Senator Green , of Missouri , said in 1861 , long after the Kansas question had been practi- cally settled ...
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... United States until the decision of the president can be known thereon . " In " The Statutes of the Terri- tory of Kansas , " printed at Shawnee Mission in 1855 , the congressional act of organization is re- published , and from design ...
... United States until the decision of the president can be known thereon . " In " The Statutes of the Terri- tory of Kansas , " printed at Shawnee Mission in 1855 , the congressional act of organization is re- published , and from design ...
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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...