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Showing posts with label Compensated Emancipation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Compensated Emancipation. Show all posts
Friday, October 20, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Charles Sumner, February 26, 1851

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Washington City , Feb. 26, 1851. My Dear Sumner , I have long desired to write you, but have postponed it from day to day in the hope t...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Charles Sumner, April 13, 1850

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Washington , Apl. 13, 1850. My Dear Sumner : I am surprised that you have not received a copy of my speech — It was printed here on the...
Friday, October 28, 2016

Diary of John Beauchamp Jones: December 5, 1862

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Yesterday there was some little skirmishing below Fredericksburg. But it rained last night, and still rains. Lee has only 30,000 or 40,000 ...
Saturday, October 8, 2016

John M. Forbes to Congressman Charles B. Sedgwick, February 16, 1863

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You have piped and I have not danced; you have called and I have not come, though my trunk has been packed for ten days. Now I am busy, bes...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. to John L. Motley, March 8, 1862

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Boston, March 8, 1862. My Dear Motley : I have been debating with myself whether to wait for further news from Nashville, the Burnside...
Saturday, April 18, 2015

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Annual Message to Congress, December 1, 1862

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December 1, 1862. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: Since your last annual assembling another year of healt...

Abraham Lincoln’s Message to Congress, March 6, 1862

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March 6, 1862. Fellow-Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: I recommend the adoption of a joint resolution by your hon...