Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... representative men of the North and the South , argues with apparent conclusiveness that popular sovereignty " was the compromise of that year ; " that " the other asso- ciated measures all depended upon it . " Mr. Doug- las , as ...
... representative men of the North and the South , argues with apparent conclusiveness that popular sovereignty " was the compromise of that year ; " that " the other asso- ciated measures all depended upon it . " Mr. Doug- las , as ...
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... Representatives , April 25th , 1854 , " the day when it was first shown in the Senate . Mark Antony did not better remember the day when Cæsar first put on that mantle through which he was afterwards pierced with three and twenty ...
... Representatives , April 25th , 1854 , " the day when it was first shown in the Senate . Mark Antony did not better remember the day when Cæsar first put on that mantle through which he was afterwards pierced with three and twenty ...
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... Representative Caskie of Vir- ginia . " No , sir , " exclaimed Senator Butler of South Carolina , " instead of Peace ... representatives effectually to balk the introduction of 8 KANSAS .
... Representative Caskie of Vir- ginia . " No , sir , " exclaimed Senator Butler of South Carolina , " instead of Peace ... representatives effectually to balk the introduction of 8 KANSAS .
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The Prelude to the War for the Union Leverett Wilson Spring. anti - slavery representatives effectually to balk the introduction of it , whatever course the Supreme Court might pursue . In other words , decisions of the highest legal ...
The Prelude to the War for the Union Leverett Wilson Spring. anti - slavery representatives effectually to balk the introduction of it , whatever course the Supreme Court might pursue . In other words , decisions of the highest legal ...
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... Representatives , roused intense excitement throughout the North , where popular sovereignty had an evil , pro - slavery repu- tation . Conventions , town - meetings , state legis- latures denounced the repeal of the Missouri Com ...
... Representatives , roused intense excitement throughout the North , where popular sovereignty had an evil , pro - slavery repu- tation . Conventions , town - meetings , state legis- latures denounced the repeal of the Missouri Com ...
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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...