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Showing posts with label Missouri Compromise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missouri Compromise. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

John J. Crittenden’s Address on the Life and Death of Henry Clay, Delivered at Louisville, September 29, 1852

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—I am very sensible of the difficulty and magnitude of the task which I have undertaken. I am to address you in comme...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

Francis Mallory to Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, May 11, 1856

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NORFOLK, [VA.], May 11, 1856. DEAR HUNTER: I have just returned from a visit to my old (Hampton) county and hope things will end there as ...
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, December 10, 1819

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MONTICELLO, December 10, 1819. DEAR SIR,—I have to acknowledge the receipt of your favor of November the 23d. The banks, bankrupt law, man...

Senator John C. Calhoun’s Speech on the Oregon Bill, June 27, 1848

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[Delivered in the United States Senate, June 27th, 1848.] THERE is a very striking difference between the position on which the slaveholdi...
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