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Slavery Containment
Press for the containment of slavery in the South by banning the institution from the Western territories.
 

May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly, p. 321, col. 1-4
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln by the Republican Party and the Republican Platform.

May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly, p. 322, col. 1
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln by the Republican Party and the Republican Platform.

May 26, 1860, Harper’s Weekly, p. 326, col. 3-4
Nomination of Abraham Lincoln by the Republican Party and the Republican Platform.

June 23, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 4, col. 5
Platform of the Republican Party

July 1, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 1-3
Speech before Lincoln and Hamlin Club outlining difference between four parties on slavery in territories.

July 7, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 4, col. 2
Under title “Old Time Democracy” a series of quotations attacking slavery.

July 14, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 2
Poem: “The Flat-Boat Excursion.”

August 4, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 5-6
A letter from T. Rail, esq., “Black Republicans and Black Democracy.”

August 11, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 2, col. 4
An attack on the Dred Scott Decision.

September 1, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 1
“Campaign and Platform,” a poem

September 1, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 2, col. 5
“Why do we support Abraham Lincoln?” Minnesota Times.

September 15, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 3-4
A take-off on the Declaration of Independence in which the Republican Party separates from the Democratic Party.

October 6, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 1, col. 3-4
Cartoon: “Our Portrait Gallery No. 16.”

October 27, 1860, The Rail Splitter, p. 3, col. 1-6
Speech by Charles Leib, editor of The Rail Splitter, on Lincoln and Douglas.

 

     
 

 

 
     
 

 

 
     

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