Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... returned thither almost before the applause that greeted its exile had died away . In the Senate , December 4th , 1853 , A. C. Dodge of Iowa offered a bill , of the usual form and purport , for the organization of Nebraska- a measure ...
... returned thither almost before the applause that greeted its exile had died away . In the Senate , December 4th , 1853 , A. C. Dodge of Iowa offered a bill , of the usual form and purport , for the organization of Nebraska- a measure ...
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... returned betimes from the Pa- cific coast to mingle in a fray nearer home . Rob- inson learned an effective lesson in the California school for the Kansas epoch . The Emigrant Aid Company planted a hand- ful of towns in the territory ...
... returned betimes from the Pa- cific coast to mingle in a fray nearer home . Rob- inson learned an effective lesson in the California school for the Kansas epoch . The Emigrant Aid Company planted a hand- ful of towns in the territory ...
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... returned , disgusted with the border , to their old homes . But the great majority of colonists , not only from New England but also from other Northern States , — men and women little given to irresolution , cow- ardice , or panic ...
... returned , disgusted with the border , to their old homes . But the great majority of colonists , not only from New England but also from other Northern States , — men and women little given to irresolution , cow- ardice , or panic ...
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... returned to Missouri , feverish with triumph- " We've made a clean sweep this time . " Border newspapers rioted in extravagances of fe- licitation . " Abolitionism is rebuked , " one of them screamed , " her fortress stormed , her flag ...
... returned to Missouri , feverish with triumph- " We've made a clean sweep this time . " Border newspapers rioted in extravagances of fe- licitation . " Abolitionism is rebuked , " one of them screamed , " her fortress stormed , her flag ...
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... returned on said boat to Missouri , " was brutally mobbed . As a sequel to tar and feathers , head - shaving , and riding on a rail , a negro sold the unfortunate lawyer at auction- " How much , gentlemen , for a full - blooded ...
... returned on said boat to Missouri , " was brutally mobbed . As a sequel to tar and feathers , head - shaving , and riding on a rail , a negro sold the unfortunate lawyer at auction- " How much , gentlemen , for a full - blooded ...
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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...