Kansas: The Prelude to the War for the UnionHoughton, Mifflin, 1885 - 334 pages |
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... territorial organizations . " William H. Seward , silent on this particular point during the earlier stages of the ... territories . Southern congressmen , reinforced by liberal Democratic contingents from the North , rallied with ...
... territorial organizations . " William H. Seward , silent on this particular point during the earlier stages of the ... territories . Southern congressmen , reinforced by liberal Democratic contingents from the North , rallied with ...
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... territory might constitutionally exercise the right " to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own ... territorial legis- lature must establish , the people need only elect anti - slavery representatives effectually to ...
... territory might constitutionally exercise the right " to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own ... territorial legis- lature must establish , the people need only elect anti - slavery representatives effectually to ...
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... great national transaction , " said Mr. Sewa in the concluding hours of the Kansas - Nebras debate , - " a transaction that will close a cy in the history of our country . " CHAPTER II . THE FIELD . THE territory of Kansas 16 KANSAS .
... great national transaction , " said Mr. Sewa in the concluding hours of the Kansas - Nebras debate , - " a transaction that will close a cy in the history of our country . " CHAPTER II . THE FIELD . THE territory of Kansas 16 KANSAS .
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... territory of Kansas extended westward from Missouri to the summit of the Rocky Moun- tains and northward from the thirty - seventh to the fortieth parallel , embracing an area of about one hundred and twenty - six thousand square miles ...
... territory of Kansas extended westward from Missouri to the summit of the Rocky Moun- tains and northward from the thirty - seventh to the fortieth parallel , embracing an area of about one hundred and twenty - six thousand square miles ...
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... territory vaguely denominated as the region drained by the Mississippi and its affluents , passed into the possession of France . Of this enormous tract Kansas , with the exception of some unimportant territorial additions from the ...
... territory vaguely denominated as the region drained by the Mississippi and its affluents , passed into the possession of France . Of this enormous tract Kansas , with the exception of some unimportant territorial additions from the ...
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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...