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PRA is a searchable collection of speeches, newsprint editorials, letters, government documents, and fragments of speech/text primarily arranged by historical event.

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"A Caution." Editorial.

"Another Word to Colored Men" by Frederick Douglass

"Dred Scott's Case." Editorial.

"Is it a Fraud?" Editorial.

"Nebraska." Editorial.

"No title" Editorial on Harper's Ferry

"The Cloud in the Distance No Bigger then a Man's Hand - The First Battle of the 'Irrepressible Conflict.'" Editorial.

"The Decision in the Case of Dred Scott." Editorial.

"The Decision in the Supreme Court." Editorial.

"The Democracy and the Union." Editorial.

"The Harper's Ferry Insurrection." Editorial.

"The Important Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States on the Slavery Question." Editorial.

"The Issue must be met." Editorial.

"The True Policy." Editorial.

"What the People Think." Editorial

"Where the Responsibility Belongs." Editorial

Dred Scott Decision

Editorial on Dred Scott Decision.

Final Proclamation of Jefferson Davis

Fragment on Slavery by Abraham Lincoln