The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the United States, Including the Causes of the War Between the Sections, with Certain ResultsC. Scribner, 1868 - 388 Seiten |
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... petitions , signed by men , women , and children , and negroes , were flooding the floor of the lower House , as a leading Northern member of Congress , who after- wards was a member of a Presidential Cabinet , was coming out from a ...
... petitions , signed by men , women , and children , and negroes , were flooding the floor of the lower House , as a leading Northern member of Congress , who after- wards was a member of a Presidential Cabinet , was coming out from a ...
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... petitions , as if they were glad to ventilate their abhorrence of slave - trading and slaveholding . In this contest the Southern States retained , indeed , their constitutional rights , but they had to struggle earnestly for them . The ...
... petitions , as if they were glad to ventilate their abhorrence of slave - trading and slaveholding . In this contest the Southern States retained , indeed , their constitutional rights , but they had to struggle earnestly for them . The ...
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... petitions do not produce a relaxation or removal of the embargo , the people ought immediately to assume a higher tone . The Government of Massachusetts has also a duty to perform . The State is still sovereign and independent ...
... petitions do not produce a relaxation or removal of the embargo , the people ought immediately to assume a higher tone . The Government of Massachusetts has also a duty to perform . The State is still sovereign and independent ...
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... Petitions for the admission of Missouri were presented March 16 , 1818 . A bill was introduced into the House to enable Missouri to form a State government , February 13 , 1819. The restriction was moved February 17 , 1819. It thus took ...
... Petitions for the admission of Missouri were presented March 16 , 1818 . A bill was introduced into the House to enable Missouri to form a State government , February 13 , 1819. The restriction was moved February 17 , 1819. It thus took ...
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... petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia . One of these , signed by 800 ladies from the State of New York , was presented in the House of Representatives in Febru- ary , 1835 . And another in the same month was ...
... petitions for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia . One of these , signed by 800 ladies from the State of New York , was presented in the House of Representatives in Febru- ary , 1835 . And another in the same month was ...
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