Statistics for occurrence #1 of “United States” in chapter 12, page 263 of Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume II.:
...sufficiently Democratic to sustain that proposition.
lie next proposed that no slave should be emancipated Under this act, until he should be on his way to be colonized at some point outside of the United States : which proposition received but six votes.
Here the Senate bill was dropped, in deference to the action
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