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Debates in the Senate on the Thirteenth Amendment, 1864

February–April 1864. The Senate's debate on the joint resolution (S. No. 16) proposing the Thirteenth Amendment: every item headed with its subject (“Amendment of the Constitution”) in which the Senate took it up, as printed in the Congressional Globe, from February 17 to the vote of April 8, 1864.

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    February 17, 1864

    6 paragraphs1 min
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    March 16, 1864

    13 paragraphs2 min
  3. 3

    March 25, 1864

    4 paragraphs1 min
  4. 4

    March 28, 1864

    193 paragraphs122 min
  5. 5

    March 30, 1864

    8 paragraphs1 min
  6. 6

    March 31, 1864

    118 paragraphs60 min
  7. 7

    April 4, 1864

    29 paragraphs9 min
  8. 8

    April 5, 1864

    150 paragraphs62 min
  9. 9

    April 6, 1864

    236 paragraphs110 min
  10. 10

    April 6, 1864 (2)

    8 paragraphs2 min
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    April 7, 1864

    141 paragraphs97 min
  12. 12

    April 8, 1864

    280 paragraphs117 min

Text of The Congressional Globe: Containing the Debates and Proceedings of the First Session of the Thirty-Eighth Congress (Washington: John C. Rives, 1864), read from OCR; the debates are given as reported, not always word for word.How this text was made

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