slave-States

Pursuant to separate preliminary correspondence and calls from State committees, a general meeting of prominent Republicans and anti-Nebraska politicians from all parts of the North, and even from a few border slave-States, came together at Pittsburgh on Washington's birthday, February 22.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

With success, he would enlarge the area of his occupation so as to include arable valleys and low-lands bordering the Alleghany range in the slave-States; and here he would colonize, govern, and educate the blacks he had freed, and maintain their liberty.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Mr. Noell, of Missouri, proposed to abolish the office of President, create an executive council of three members, from districts of contiguous States, give each member the veto power, and establish equilibrium between the free and the slave-States in the Senate by voluntary division of some of the slave-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

By Thomas C. Hindman, of Arkansas: Right of property in slaves in slave-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Since that time South Carolina had continued her preparation for secession with unremitting industry; Mississippi had authorized a convention and appointed commissioners to visit all the slave-States and propagate disunion, among them Mr. Thompson,

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

Beneath the struggle between the free-States and the slave-States were the intrigue and deception carried on between Northern Democrats and Southern Democrats.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

He immediately entered on an extensive campaign tour, and made speeches at many of the principal cities of the Northern States, and a few in the slave-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

As to the alleged destruction of equality, the North proposed to deny to the slave-States no single right claimed by the free-States.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

I do not now, nor ever did, stand pledged against the admission of any more slave-States into the Union.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890

But the Supreme Court of Missouri, so far from standing alone on this question, is supported by the decisions of other slave-States, including those in which it may be supposed there was the least disposition to favor emancipation.

Abraham Lincoln A History Nicolay, John G & Hay John 1890