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" ... there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery. Indeed, our revolutionary predecessors had precisely the same question before them in establishing an organic law under which the states... "
California, Union, and Freedom - Page 9
by William Henry Seward - 1850 - 14 pages
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The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1

William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...establishing an organic law under which the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, have since come into the Union, and they solemnly...degeneracy which has yet been given is found in the Tact that we even debate such a question. Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate

Compromise of 1850 - 1854 - 144 pages
...establishing an organic law under which the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, have since come into the Union, and they solemnly...there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. I speak on due consideration, because Britain, France, and Mexico,...
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The Nebraska Question

1854 - 136 pages
...estahlishing an organic law under which the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, have since come into the Union, and they solemnly...alarming evidence of our degeneracy which has yet heen given is found in the fact that we even dehate such a question. Sir, there is no Christian nation,...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr ...

Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...establishing an organic law under which the States of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, have since come into the Union, and they solemnly...and excluded slavery from those States forever. I con- , fuss that the most alarming evidence of our degeneracy which has yet been given is found in...
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Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers

David W. Bartlett - Reformers - 1855 - 440 pages
...presents itself to us is this : Shall we, who are founding institutions, social and political, for countless millions ; shall we, who know by experience...repudiated and excluded slavery from those states forever." In a speech made in the senate, July 2, 1850, occurs the following eloquent passage : " Still it is...
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Modern Agitators: Or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers. by David W ...

David W. Bartlett, D. W. (David W. ). Bartlett - Biography & Autobiography - 1855 - 408 pages
...erroneous and unjust; shall we establish human bondage, or permit it by our sufferance to be established ? Sir, our forefathers would not have hesitated an hour....repudiated and excluded slavery from those states forever." In a speech made in the senate, July 2, 1850, occurs the following eloquent passage : " Still it is...
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The Life of William H. Seward with Selections from His Works

George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 pages
...come into the Union, and they solemnly repudiated and excluded slavery from those states for ever. I confess that the most alarming evidence of our degeneracy...found in the fact that we even debate such a question. — Speech in US Senate, 1850. in t!je Heto SIR, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose...
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Masterpieces of American Eloquence: Christian Herald Selection

Orators - 1900 - 526 pages
...slavery. WILLIAM H. SEWARD. Indeed, our Revolutionary predecessors had precisely the same quesfion before them in establishing an organic law, under...repudiated and excluded slavery from those States forever. The Union, the creation of the necessities physical, moral, social, and political, endures by virtue...
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The Library of Original Sources, Volume 9

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 482 pages
...establishing an organic law under which the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, have since come into the Union, and they solemnly...found in the fact that we even debate such a question. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS STEPHEN ARNOLD DOUGLAS was born at Brandon, Vermont, April 23, 1813. After being...
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The Library of Original Sources: 1833-1865

Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 494 pages
...establishing an organic law under which the states of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and Wisconsin, have since come into the Union, and they solemnly...from those states forever. I confess that the most alaiming evidence of our degeneracy which has yet been given is found in the fact that we even debate...
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