Twenty Years of Congress: from Lincoln to Garfield: With a Review of the Events which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860, Volume 2Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1884 - United States |
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Page 169 - A system for the support of indigent persons in the United States was never contemplated by the constitution, nor can any good reason be advanced why, as a permanent establishment, it should be founded for one class or color of our people, more than for another.