Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... less violent and exasperating tongue . - William H. Seward did not rank himself among abolitionists , though in the debate of 1850 he pronounced " all legislative compromises radically wrong and essentially vicious , " and enunciated ...
... less violent and exasperating tongue . - William H. Seward did not rank himself among abolitionists , though in the debate of 1850 he pronounced " all legislative compromises radically wrong and essentially vicious , " and enunciated ...
Page 18
... less plausible . He appears to have advanced from southwestern Kansas " through mighty plains and sandy heaths , smooth and wearisome and bare of wood . . . . All that way the plains are as full of crook back oxen as the mountain Serena ...
... less plausible . He appears to have advanced from southwestern Kansas " through mighty plains and sandy heaths , smooth and wearisome and bare of wood . . . . All that way the plains are as full of crook back oxen as the mountain Serena ...
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... less formidable neighbors . " Atchison thought that the interests of Missouri required nothing beyond formal repeal of the offensive legislation which laid restrictions upon slavery . In that event Missouri would be able to take care of ...
... less formidable neighbors . " Atchison thought that the interests of Missouri required nothing beyond formal repeal of the offensive legislation which laid restrictions upon slavery . In that event Missouri would be able to take care of ...
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... less suc- cessful in Kansas than in Missouri , a notably prosperous commonwealth ; that the territorial crisis called as loudly for negroes as for voters . " Two thousand slaves , " urged Stringfellow , " ac- tually lodged in Kansas ...
... less suc- cessful in Kansas than in Missouri , a notably prosperous commonwealth ; that the territorial crisis called as loudly for negroes as for voters . " Two thousand slaves , " urged Stringfellow , " ac- tually lodged in Kansas ...
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... less , blustering , open - throated peculiarities that distinguish such events . Not only were the types and sorts of humanity involved substantially iden- tical , but also , in a degree worthy of passing notice , there was repetition ...
... less , blustering , open - throated peculiarities that distinguish such events . Not only were the types and sorts of humanity involved substantially iden- tical , but also , in a degree worthy of passing notice , there was repetition ...
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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...