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Showing posts with label Kansas-Nebraska Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kansas-Nebraska Act. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Abraham Lincoln’s Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, December 3, 1859

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: You are, as yet, the people of a Territory; but you probably soon will be the people of a State of the Union. Then yo...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Samuel Clark Pomeroy

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Pomeroy, Samuel Clark , pioneer and United States senator, was born at Southampton, Mass., Jan. 3, 1816; was educated at Amherst College, an...
Friday, February 1, 2019

Gerrit Smith to the Chairman of the Jerry Rescue Committee, August 27,1859

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[August 27, 1859.] For many years I have feared, and published my fears, that slavery must go out in the blood. My speech in Congress o...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Charles Sumner to Gerrit Smith, March 18, 1856

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Washington, 18th March, '56. My Dear Gerrit Smith — I have your volume, “ Gerrit Smith in Congress ,” and am glad to possess it. ...
Friday, July 13, 2018

Salmon P. Chase to John Denison Baldwin, Esq,* Worcester Mass., August 20, 1860

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Columbus , Aug 20 h [1860] Dear Sir , Yours of the 11th reached me yesterday on my return from Michigan; & I hasten to thank you f...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, February 9, 1855

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Washington Feb 9. 1855. Dear Hamlin , A much longer time has slipped by without my writing to you than ought; but you know what my sit...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin,* July 21, 1854

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Washington, July 21, 1854,. My Dear Hamlin : It was good to see your handwriting again. You had been so long silent that I almost bega...
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward L. Pierce, May 16, 1854

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Washington , May 16, 1854. My Dear Pierce : I enclose to you a brief which has no merit except simplicity and directness. Many than...
Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, January 23, 1854

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Washington , Jany 23, 1854. My Dear Sir : Wrote you a day or two since. Today the Nebraska Bill was called up, but was postponed till M...
Monday, March 19, 2018

Senator Salmon P. Chase to Edward S. Hamlin, January 22, 1854

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Washington Jany 22, 1854 My Dear Sir , I think you are mistaken in the am t , of my debt to you — it was for one letter instead of two...
Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Anthony Burns

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BURNS, Anthony , fugitive slave, b. in Virginia about 1830; d. in St. Catharines, Canada, 27 July, 1862. He effected his escape from slaver...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Horace Greeley to James S. Pike, February 26, 1860

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New York , February 26, 1860. Friend P .: Before you say much more about John Bell, will you just take down the volumes of the Congress...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

Diary of William Howard Russell: Monday, April 1, 1861

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On Easter Monday, after breakfast with Mr. Olmsted, I drove over to visit Senator Douglas. Originally engaged in some mechanical avocation,...
Friday, August 15, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Senator James W. Grimes, January 12, 1861

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Des Moines, Ia., January 12, 1861. Hon. James W. Grimes: Dear Sir : — It really appears to me as though our Southern friends are de...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" Speech

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SPEECH IN ACCEPTANCE OF NOMINATION AS UNITED STATES SENATOR, MADE AT THE CLOSE OF THE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION, SPRINGFIELD, ILL., JUNE 1...