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... Mexico ; such a policy as would give us the commercial and other results of annexation , without its troubles and dangers . If the warnings I gave in 1860 had been heeded , Maximilian would now be at his palace in Miramar , overlooking ...
... Mexico ; such a policy as would give us the commercial and other results of annexation , without its troubles and dangers . If the warnings I gave in 1860 had been heeded , Maximilian would now be at his palace in Miramar , overlooking ...
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... Mexico , Indiana , North Carolina , Utah , Michigan , South Carolina , Delaware , Illinois , Georgia , California , Oregon . Maryland , Wisconsin , Florida , Connecticut . Dist . Columbia . Minnesota , Alabama , Iowa , Louisiana ...
... Mexico , Indiana , North Carolina , Utah , Michigan , South Carolina , Delaware , Illinois , Georgia , California , Oregon . Maryland , Wisconsin , Florida , Connecticut . Dist . Columbia . Minnesota , Alabama , Iowa , Louisiana ...
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... Mexico , was delivered . On the 18th of January , 1859 , addressing the House , Mr. Cox said : There is a logic in history which is as inexorable as fate . A writer in the time of the first Stuart gave as the number of the kingdoms of ...
... Mexico , was delivered . On the 18th of January , 1859 , addressing the House , Mr. Cox said : There is a logic in history which is as inexorable as fate . A writer in the time of the first Stuart gave as the number of the kingdoms of ...
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... Mexico . We have endeavored to add other territory , which the jealousy of France , Spain , and especially of England , has prevented . It is not my purpose now to rehearse our history in this regard . We may have kept step with our ...
... Mexico . We have endeavored to add other territory , which the jealousy of France , Spain , and especially of England , has prevented . It is not my purpose now to rehearse our history in this regard . We may have kept step with our ...
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... Mexico , which would have been a dependency of England , Mr. Calhoun then tried , in an able speech , to limit the application of that doctrine to the surroundings out of which it grew , namely , to the intervention of the holy alliance ...
... Mexico , which would have been a dependency of England , Mr. Calhoun then tried , in an able speech , to limit the application of that doctrine to the surroundings out of which it grew , namely , to the intervention of the holy alliance ...
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