Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... affairs to undertake a mission of pacification , felicitated the country upon the peace which quickly followed and gave promise of permanence . General Lewis Cass did not believe that " any party could now be built up in relation to the ...
... affairs to undertake a mission of pacification , felicitated the country upon the peace which quickly followed and gave promise of permanence . General Lewis Cass did not believe that " any party could now be built up in relation to the ...
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... affair in which there were " blows to take as well as blows to give . " How- ever triumphant the anti - slavery argument may have been along ethical and humanitarian lines , it was not equally successful in other parts of the field ...
... affair in which there were " blows to take as well as blows to give . " How- ever triumphant the anti - slavery argument may have been along ethical and humanitarian lines , it was not equally successful in other parts of the field ...
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... affairs existed . The declaration of a large and representative pro - slavery convention at Lexing- ton , Missouri , in July , 1855 , that " the enforce- ment of the restriction in the settlement of Kansas was virtually the abolition of ...
... affairs existed . The declaration of a large and representative pro - slavery convention at Lexing- ton , Missouri , in July , 1855 , that " the enforce- ment of the restriction in the settlement of Kansas was virtually the abolition of ...
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... affairs . The senti- ments of this initial Kansas convention , - forerun- ner of an enormous brood of partisan meetings , - sentiments loudly chorused by the whole pack of border newspapers , took form in a series of twelve resolutions ...
... affairs . The senti- ments of this initial Kansas convention , - forerun- ner of an enormous brood of partisan meetings , - sentiments loudly chorused by the whole pack of border newspapers , took form in a series of twelve resolutions ...
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... affairs in a half per- sonal fashion until February , 1855 , when a second charter was obtained and an association formed early in March with slightly rephrased title " The New England Emigrant Aid Company " and with John Carter Brown ...
... affairs in a half per- sonal fashion until February , 1855 , when a second charter was obtained and an association formed early in March with slightly rephrased title " The New England Emigrant Aid Company " and with John Carter Brown ...
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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...