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Resolutions of the legislature of Alabama responsive to those of South Carolina on the subject of controversy between the States of Maine and Georgia.

27th Congress, 1st session. House of Representatives document no. 11. Concerns the stealing and carrying away of a slave named Atticus by Daniel Philbrook and Edward Kilbron from Georgia to Maine. Maine refused to surrender Philbrook and Kilbron...

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Memorial of the general assembly of Missouri, requesting that efforts be made by negotiation with the British government, to procure the restoration of fugitive slaves.

29th Congress, 2d session. Senate document no. 150. Missouri requests a measure for negotiations with England to prevent slaves escaping to Canada. Printed by Ritchie & Heiss, printers.

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Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey in favor of the Compromise measures.

32nd Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives document no. 13. Resolves to support the compromise measures passed by Congress addressing slavery and the boundaries of territories acquired during the Mexican-American War.

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Freedom national; Slavery sectional. Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, on his motion to repeal the Fugitive Slave Bill.

Delivered in the Senate of the United States 26 August 1852. Sumner attacks the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and calls for its repeal. Printed by Buell & Blanchard.

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[Report submitted by Senator Charles Sumner calling for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850]

Sumner, a United States Senator from Massachusetts, also asks for "the repeal of all acts for the rendition of fugitive slaves..." Report intended to accompany bill No. 141. Also includes a minority report, submitted 1 March 1864 by Senators John...

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Speech of Hon. S. A. Douglas, of Illinois, in the Senate, January 30, 1853, on the Nebraska Territory.

Printed at the Sentinel Office. Fragile. Bound with string.

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Memorial of the New England Emigrant Aid Company, praying indemnification for the destruction of property, at Lawrence, Kansas, May 21, 1856.

37th Congress, 3d Session, Senate. Mis. Doc. No. 29. Offers eye-witness accounts of the sack of Lawrence, Kansas, including an account submitted by William Hutchinson, secretary of the Kansas Central Committee and a special correspondent for the...

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Report of the committee on territories, on "A bill to authorize the people of the territory of Kansas to form a constitution and state government...

(title continues)... preparatory to their admission into the Union, when they have the requisite population," etc. Also, the views of the minority of said committee. 34th Congress, 1st Session, Senate. Published by A. O. P. Nicholson, Senate...

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[Message of the President of the United States regarding Kansas]

President Buchanan submits a report of Lewis Cass, Secretary of State, with other correspondence and documents related to the Kansas Territory. Contains correspondence of Robert John Walker, Governor of Kansas Territory, among others. 35th Congress...

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Message of the President of the United States, communicating a constitution for Kansas as a State, and presenting his views in relation to the affairs of that Territory.

United States 35th Congress, 1st session, Executive Document no. 21, Senate. Second half of pamphlet includes a proposed constitution for the state of Kansas. Article VII, on slavery, states "The right of property is before and higher than any...

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