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5. Chapter 5The attempt of Mr. Buchanan's administration to force slavery upon Kansas by means of the Lecompton Constitution, against the real sentiment of the people, and against the true...
4. Chapter 4The high and sacred character of a national compact has been claimed for the Missouri act of 6th March, 1820. No man who will calmly and intelligently and without prejudice exam...
3. Chapter 3Second--The prohibition of the ordinance, applied to territory substantially free from slavery, and which it was well understood was not adapted to slave labor. It raised no suc...
2. Chapter 2It seems to me that no man who knows our history, who understands truly the genius of our people, and who understands also the principles upon which the Union and the Constituti...
6. Chapter 6Lastly, my friends--Looking to the men who now compose and sustain it, and to the platform on which it stands, I regard the National Democratic party, lead by Stephen A. Douglas...
7. Chapter 7Examine them in any light to which they may be presented, the Breckinridge and Lincoln doctrines equally lead to the same anti-Democratic result:--Sovereign power in the Federal...