Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... 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 question of slavery ...
... 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 question of slavery ...
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... mission they were dedicated to comparative isolation — solitary knights bestriding " The winged Hippogriff , Reform . " They did not melt into the great popular move- ments which their personal heroism , their bril- liancy of newspaper ...
... mission they were dedicated to comparative isolation — solitary knights bestriding " The winged Hippogriff , Reform . " They did not melt into the great popular move- ments which their personal heroism , their bril- liancy of newspaper ...
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... and the half dozen denominational mission schools . The Kansas - Ne- braska bill ejected the Indians from their homes and sent them elsewhere . This consideration was not overlooked by its opponents . Edward Everett protested in 22 KANSAS .
... and the half dozen denominational mission schools . The Kansas - Ne- braska bill ejected the Indians from their homes and sent them elsewhere . This consideration was not overlooked by its opponents . Edward Everett protested in 22 KANSAS .
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... mission , would transform the wilderness of Kansas into an imme- diate Utopia was hardly to be anticipated . " So foul a sky clears not without a storm . " CHAPTER III . DRIVING DOWN STAKES . WESTERN Missouri , THE FIELD . 23.
... mission , would transform the wilderness of Kansas into an imme- diate Utopia was hardly to be anticipated . " So foul a sky clears not without a storm . " CHAPTER III . DRIVING DOWN STAKES . WESTERN Missouri , THE FIELD . 23.
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... mission or not , might freely avail himself of its advantages . The obligations of the emigrants who went to Kansas under its wing were wholly implied and informal . Assuredly it offered no premium for extremer types of anti - slavery ...
... mission or not , might freely avail himself of its advantages . The obligations of the emigrants who went to Kansas under its wing were wholly implied and informal . Assuredly it offered no premium for extremer types of anti - slavery ...
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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...