A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to the Present Day. Mainly Compiled and Condensed from the Journals of Congress and Other Official Records, and Showing the Vote by Yeas and Nays on the Most Important Divisions in Either House |
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... peace or future prosperity the restriction in the Ordinance of 1787 , so as of the country . The current of emigration flow to admit Slavery , for a limited term , into the ing to the Western country , the Territories should Terrritory ...
... peace or future prosperity the restriction in the Ordinance of 1787 , so as of the country . The current of emigration flow to admit Slavery , for a limited term , into the ing to the Western country , the Territories should Terrritory ...
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... peace , nego- tiation , and foreign commerce , with which last the powers of taxation will , for the most part , be connected . The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects , which in the ordinary course of ...
... peace , nego- tiation , and foreign commerce , with which last the powers of taxation will , for the most part , be connected . The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects , which in the ordinary course of ...
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... peace and harmony of the Union . He believed that they were kindling a fire which all the waters of the ocean could not extinguish . It could be extinguished only in blood ! sion , that Slavery is an ill , tolerated only from necessity ...
... peace and harmony of the Union . He believed that they were kindling a fire which all the waters of the ocean could not extinguish . It could be extinguished only in blood ! sion , that Slavery is an ill , tolerated only from necessity ...
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... peace on the basis of the independence of Texas - a covenant which he had no power , and proba- bly no desire , to give effect to when restored to liberty . The Texans , pursuing their ad- vantage , twice or thrice penetrated other ...
... peace on the basis of the independence of Texas - a covenant which he had no power , and proba- bly no desire , to give effect to when restored to liberty . The Texans , pursuing their ad- vantage , twice or thrice penetrated other ...
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... peace , the extension of com- merce , and security , are objects of primary policy with them , it may , as it seems to me , be readily shown that the policy on the part of those powers which would acquiesce in a measure so strongly ...
... peace , the extension of com- merce , and security , are objects of primary policy with them , it may , as it seems to me , be readily shown that the policy on the part of those powers which would acquiesce in a measure so strongly ...
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