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To the citizens of Massachusetts. The undersigned are moved by an imperative sense of duty to address their fellow-citizens of the state of Massachusetts, concerning the portentous condition of our public affairs. ... The foundations of our government are shaken, and, unless the work of destruction shall be stayed, we may soon see that great union ... broken into weak, discordant and shattered fragments; and that people ... shedding fraternal blood in civil war. ..
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[Boston : s.n., 1860]
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Report of the Select Committee on Slavery, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Action of the Federal Government Thereon : submitted Thursday, Nov. 18, 1858
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Vermont. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Slavery, the Dred Scott Decision, and the Action of the Federal Government Thereon
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Montpelier : E.P. Walton, Printer, 1858.
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Minority report of the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Relations : with resolutions
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Connecticut. General Assembly. Joint Standing Committee on Federal Relations
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Report of the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Relations : with resolutions and a bill for a public act
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Connecticut. General Assembly. Joint Standing Committee on Federal Relations
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Speech delivered by Hon. Josiah Quincy, Senior, before the Whig State Convention, assembled at the Music Hall, Boston, Aug. 16, 1854
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Quincy, Josiah, 1772-1864
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Boston: : Printed by John Wilson & Son, 22, School Street., 1854.
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Redemption of the Great National Whig and Democratic Parties, from the intrigue, treachery and thraldom of the slave power, by a union of parties in Massachusetts for Liberty and Union
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[Boston : s.n., 1851]
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Declaration of sentiments of the colored citizens of Boston, on the fugitive slave bill!!! Per adjournment, the Friends of Freedom rallied at Belknap Street Church, on Friday evening, October 5th, 1850, a vast concourse, including fugitives and their friends were in attendance,--the organization was completed as follows ..
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Friends of Freedom (Boston, Mass.)
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[Boston] : Printed [by George C. Jenks] at no. 86 Hanover Street--Boston., [1850]
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Message of Governor Johnston in defence of Pennsylvania
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Pennsylvania. Governor (1848-1852 : Johnston)
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Philadelphia : Crissy and Markley, printers, 1850.
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Read and ponder the Fugitive slave law! Which disregards all the ordinary securities of personal liberty, which tramples on the Constitution, by its denial of the sacred rights of trial by jury, habeas corpus, and appeal, and which enacts, that the cardinal virtues of Christianity shall be considered, in the eye of the law, as crimes, punishable with the severest penalties,--fines and imprisonment. : Freemen of Massachusetts, remember, that Samuel A. Elliott of Boston, voted for this law, that Millard Filmore, our Whig president approved it and the Whig journals of Massachusetts sustain them in this iniquity
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United States
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[Worcester, Mass.] : Printed and for sale at the Spy Job Office, Worcester, Mass., [1850]
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Read and ponder the Fugitive slave law! Which disregards all the ordinary securities of personal liberty, which tramples on the Constitution, by its denial of the sacred rights of trial by jury, habeas corpus, and appeal, and which enacts, that the cardinal virtues of Christianity shall be considered, in the eye of the law, as crimes, punishable with the severest penalties,--fines and imprisonment. : Freemen of Massachusetts, remember, that Samuel A. Elliott of Boston, voted for this law, that Millard Filmore, our Whig president approved it and the Whig journals of Massachusetts sustain them in this iniquity
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United States
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[Worcester, Mass.] : Printed and for sale at the Spy Office., [1850]
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Report and resolves on the subject of slavery
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Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Special Committee on Slavery
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[Boston : publisher not identified, 1836]
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A vote for the slave trade, recollected and considered
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Philadelphia : [publisher not identified], 1820.
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