Territory acquired from Mexico

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Territory acquired from Mexico
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we went to bed one night old fashioned,
conservative, Compromise Union Whigs wakes up
stark mad Abolitionists -- Amos Lawrence
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Status of slavery in the western territories
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The Senator Andrew Butler from South Carolina
has read many books of chivalry, and believes
himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of
honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a
mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who,
though ugly to others, is always lovely to him
though polluted in the sight of the world, is
chaste in his sight I mean the harlot, Slavery.
Sen. Charles Sumner
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To the Hon. John M. Krum, Judge of the St. Louis
Circuit Court. Dred Scott, a man of color,
respectfully states to your honor, that he is
claimed as a slave by one Irene Emerson, of the
County of St. Louis, State of Missouri, widow of
the late Dr. John Emerson, who at the time of his
death was a surgeon in the United States army.
- that said Emerson is now dead, and his widow
the said Irene claims petitioners services as a
slave, and as his owner, but believing that under
this state of fact, that he is entitled to his
freedom, he prays your honor to allow him to sue
said Irene Emerson in said Court, in order to
establish his right to freedom he will pray be.
his Dred X Scott mark
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Now, if it is deemed necessary that I should
forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends
of justice, and mingle my blood further with the
blood of my children and with the blood of
millions in this slave country whose rights are
disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust
enactments, I say, let it be done John Brown,
November 2, 1859