The war with the south: a history of the late rebellion with biographical sketches of leading statesmen and distinguished naval and military commanders, etc, Volume 1Virtue & Yorston, 1867 - 664 pages |
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... Missouri Compromise act was abrogated , for the purpose of admitting the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas as slaveholding alarmed at these continued encroach- ments of the South , and resolutely pre- pared to check them . In spite of ...
... Missouri Compromise act was abrogated , for the purpose of admitting the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas as slaveholding alarmed at these continued encroach- ments of the South , and resolutely pre- pared to check them . In spite of ...
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... Missouri Compro- mise . I am opposed to slavery in the abstract and upon principle , sustained and made habitual by long - settled con- victions . While I feel inflexible in the belief that it ought not to be interfered with where it ...
... Missouri Compro- mise . I am opposed to slavery in the abstract and upon principle , sustained and made habitual by long - settled con- victions . While I feel inflexible in the belief that it ought not to be interfered with where it ...
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... Missouri Compro-. his father , who could barely sign his name , and of his mother , who , " though a ready reader , had not been taught the accomplishment of writing , " but of many of the other rude settlers of the wilderness . He thus ...
... Missouri Compro-. his father , who could barely sign his name , and of his mother , who , " though a ready reader , had not been taught the accomplishment of writing , " but of many of the other rude settlers of the wilderness . He thus ...
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... Missouri Compro- mise aroused Lincoln once. now formed a partnership , and buying a stock of goods on credit , opened a coun- try store . He was also appointed post- master at New Salem . The business , however , not proving successful ...
... Missouri Compro- mise aroused Lincoln once. now formed a partnership , and buying a stock of goods on credit , opened a coun- try store . He was also appointed post- master at New Salem . The business , however , not proving successful ...
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... Missouri Compro- mise aroused Lincoln once more to active political effort , and he came for- ward as a champion of the new Repub- lican party organized to resist the ex - him victor , but his competitor , Douglas , tension of slavery ...
... Missouri Compro- mise aroused Lincoln once more to active political effort , and he came for- ward as a champion of the new Repub- lican party organized to resist the ex - him victor , but his competitor , Douglas , tension of slavery ...
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