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Example sentences for "abolishing slavery"

  • Abolishing Slavery entirely, we take up the gauntlet entirely.

  • Unhappily, while we have succeeded in abolishing Slavery in this District, we have not yet abolished the tail; and the tail has representatives in the Senate Chamber, as the beast once had.

  • The first public movement for an Amendment of the National Constitution, abolishing Slavery, was a resolution presented by the devoted Abolitionist, Henry C.

  • This result forced the question into the Presidential canvass of 1864, and upon the decision of that election depended the question of abolishing slavery.

  • Mr. Yates maintained that the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery gave to Congress power to legislate to the full extent of the measure proposed by him.

  • Justice Bradley believed, moreover, that the Civil Rights Act could not be supported by the Thirteenth Amendment in that, unlike the Fourteenth Amendment, the Thirteenth Amendment is primary and direct in abolishing slavery.

  • Like Jefferson, therefore, during the later years of his life, Madison saw many difficulties in the way of abolishing slavery.

  • Small progress has been made towards abolishing slavery at the seat of our National Government.

  • They were intended as amendments to a motion, to refer with instructions to report a bill, abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.

  • Yet, this incendiary cry of abolishing slavery in the States has become the staple of all subsequent agitators.

  • And this, besides doing an act of generous justice to the State of Missouri, was the noble answer which Northern members gave to the imputed design of abolishing slavery in the States!

  • In July, 1787, the old Congress passed the celebrated ordinance, abolishing slavery in the northwestern territory, and declaring that it should never thereafter exist there.

  • Congress, by abolishing slavery in the District, would do no such thing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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