Abraham Lincoln's SpeechesDodd, Mead and Company, 1896 - 371 pages |
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... Slaves free ; and offering Com- pensated Emancipation to Slave Owners Appeal to the Border States to accept Compensated Emancipation • Letter to Cuthbert Bullitt From his Letter to Count Gasparin His Letter to Horace Greeley From his ...
... Slaves free ; and offering Com- pensated Emancipation to Slave Owners Appeal to the Border States to accept Compensated Emancipation • Letter to Cuthbert Bullitt From his Letter to Count Gasparin His Letter to Horace Greeley From his ...
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... slavery . He saw in it the great question of the time , upon which depended the perpetuity of the Union . Slavery had previously been patient under restriction , it had consented to the several compromises . Now it had sud- denly become ...
... slavery . He saw in it the great question of the time , upon which depended the perpetuity of the Union . Slavery had previously been patient under restriction , it had consented to the several compromises . Now it had sud- denly become ...
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... slavery with the adoption of the Federal Constitution , the commencement of its legislative history . The thoroughness of his investigations may be seen in his Cooper Institute speech in New York ( February , 1860 ) , wherein he traced ...
... slavery with the adoption of the Federal Constitution , the commencement of its legislative history . The thoroughness of his investigations may be seen in his Cooper Institute speech in New York ( February , 1860 ) , wherein he traced ...
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... slavery in the South , and their allies in the North , now claimed that slavery should be fostered and made a permanent institu- tion ; that property in slaves , like any other prop- erty , was entitled to be taken into any Territory of ...
... slavery in the South , and their allies in the North , now claimed that slavery should be fostered and made a permanent institu- tion ; that property in slaves , like any other prop- erty , was entitled to be taken into any Territory of ...
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Abraham Lincoln. together . The country must become ali slave or all free , or the free and the slave States must separate . All this was as clear as the sunlight to the eye of Abraham Lincoln when , on the 16th of June , 1858 , in the ...
Abraham Lincoln. together . The country must become ali slave or all free , or the free and the slave States must separate . All this was as clear as the sunlight to the eye of Abraham Lincoln when , on the 16th of June , 1858 , in the ...
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Abraham Lincoln's Speeches Abraham Lincoln,L. E. (Lucius Eugene) 1824- Chittenden No preview available - 2016 |
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