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Speech at Peoria by Abraham Lincoln 1854
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Missouri Compromise
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Dred Scott Decision
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"Is it a Fraud?" Editorial.
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Six (Quincy); Douglas Opening Remarks
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"Dred Scott's Case." Editorial.
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"The Decision in the Supreme Court." Editorial.
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate One (Ottawa); Stephen Douglas Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Four (Charleston); Douglas Opening Remarks
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The 14th Section by Abraham Lincoln
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Letter to James C. Conkling by Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Five (Galesburg); Lincoln Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debates Seven (Alton); Douglas Opening Remarks
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Lincoln-Douglas Debate Three (Jonesboro); Douglas Opening Remarks
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"The Democracy and the Union." Editorial.
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Speech at Beardstown by Abraham Lincoln
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Speech at Chicago by Stephen Douglas
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