Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... Committee on Territories , of which Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was chairman , the bill reappeared in the Senate January 4th , 1854 , variously amended and accompanied by an elabo- rate disquisition upon the status of slavery in the ...
... Committee on Territories , of which Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois was chairman , the bill reappeared in the Senate January 4th , 1854 , variously amended and accompanied by an elabo- rate disquisition upon the status of slavery in the ...
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... committee February 7th , it cancelled the Missouri Compromise ; cut Nebraska into halves - styling the southern section Kansas and the northern Nebraska ; and enunciated the doctrine that citi- zens of the United States , peopling the ...
... committee February 7th , it cancelled the Missouri Compromise ; cut Nebraska into halves - styling the southern section Kansas and the northern Nebraska ; and enunciated the doctrine that citi- zens of the United States , peopling the ...
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... Committee on Ter- ritories , introduced bills for the organization of Utah and New Mexico in harmony with the con- ference adjustments . " A few weeks afterward , " he said in a speech March 3d , 1854 , " the committee of thirteen took ...
... Committee on Ter- ritories , introduced bills for the organization of Utah and New Mexico in harmony with the con- ference adjustments . " A few weeks afterward , " he said in a speech March 3d , 1854 , " the committee of thirteen took ...
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... committee has been chosen to give a formal notice of the naming of the city . " It was unavoidable that a portion of the immi- grants fetched from New England to the outposts of civilization , set down amidst the privations and ...
... committee has been chosen to give a formal notice of the naming of the city . " It was unavoidable that a portion of the immi- grants fetched from New England to the outposts of civilization , set down amidst the privations and ...
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... Committee in 1856. " Whenever there was an election in the territory , " Mr. Thorpe testified , " they were fussin ' roun ' an ' gettin ' up companies to go , an ' gettin ' hosses an ' wagins . They come to me to subscribe , but I tole ...
... Committee in 1856. " Whenever there was an election in the territory , " Mr. Thorpe testified , " they were fussin ' roun ' an ' gettin ' up companies to go , an ' gettin ' hosses an ' wagins . They come to me to subscribe , but I tole ...
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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...