Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... hands in eulogizing the compromise , and resolved that mankind should be dumb in regard to the wrongs of the negro . The triumphant election of Franklin Pierce as president turned upon the popular conviction , that he was more ...
... hands in eulogizing the compromise , and resolved that mankind should be dumb in regard to the wrongs of the negro . The triumphant election of Franklin Pierce as president turned upon the popular conviction , that he was more ...
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... hands , it has been Electra with snakes hissing from her head and the torch of dis- cord in her hand . " The champions of popular sovereignty disa- greed as to the time when the inhabitants of a territory might constitutionally exercise ...
... hands , it has been Electra with snakes hissing from her head and the torch of dis- cord in her hand . " The champions of popular sovereignty disa- greed as to the time when the inhabitants of a territory might constitutionally exercise ...
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... hand in the impending struggle . It was a cross- purposed and variorum migration , — hirelings , ad- venturers , blatherskites , fanatics , reformers , phi- lanthropists , patriots . That such a medley of humanity , recruited from ...
... hand in the impending struggle . It was a cross- purposed and variorum migration , — hirelings , ad- venturers , blatherskites , fanatics , reformers , phi- lanthropists , patriots . That such a medley of humanity , recruited from ...
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... hands of Thayer , Law- rence , and J. M. S. Williams , who were consti- tuted trustees , and managed affairs in a half per- sonal fashion until February , 1855 , when a second charter was obtained and an association formed early in ...
... hands of Thayer , Law- rence , and J. M. S. Williams , who were consti- tuted trustees , and managed affairs in a half per- sonal fashion until February , 1855 , when a second charter was obtained and an association formed early in ...
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... hand- ful of towns in the territory - Hampden , which disappeared after a little , Wabaunsee , Osawato- mie , Manhattan , Topeka , and Lawrence . Of these anti - slavery villages the oldest , and for a time the chief , was Lawrence ...
... hand- ful of towns in the territory - Hampden , which disappeared after a little , Wabaunsee , Osawato- mie , Manhattan , Topeka , and Lawrence . Of these anti - slavery villages the oldest , and for a time the chief , was Lawrence ...
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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...