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Page xliv
... foreign lands . Overtaken by poverty and disease , they served to fill the alms- houses and the prisons . Their overflowing numbers increased the amount both of wretchedness and of crime . In order to lessen the evil , a tax upon ...
... foreign lands . Overtaken by poverty and disease , they served to fill the alms- houses and the prisons . Their overflowing numbers increased the amount both of wretchedness and of crime . In order to lessen the evil , a tax upon ...
Page lxxxviii
... foreign na- tions , explains the true character of intervention , and argues at length in its defence . The tone of this speech is lofty and severe , and in some passages rises to an almost Miltonic grandeur . The next speeches of Gov ...
... foreign na- tions , explains the true character of intervention , and argues at length in its defence . The tone of this speech is lofty and severe , and in some passages rises to an almost Miltonic grandeur . The next speeches of Gov ...
Page lxxxix
... foreign rail- road iron , Gov. Seward addressed the Senate in one of his most characteristic speeches . This was followed by a speech on " Texas and her creditors , " which closes the list of his senatorial efforts at the time we are ...
... foreign rail- road iron , Gov. Seward addressed the Senate in one of his most characteristic speeches . This was followed by a speech on " Texas and her creditors , " which closes the list of his senatorial efforts at the time we are ...
Page 15
... foreign from the affairs of the state , they were passed by a vote of 118 to 9 in the first week of the session , without argument , and without even the cere- mony of printing the documents which the resolutions approve . Be satisfied ...
... foreign from the affairs of the state , they were passed by a vote of 118 to 9 in the first week of the session , without argument , and without even the cere- mony of printing the documents which the resolutions approve . Be satisfied ...
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... foreign countries . His bonds or notes must be esteemed as secure as his vaults . Such an agent , we have had ; it was the Bank of the United States . The funds it had were its capital and the deposits of the government . Its bond ...
... foreign countries . His bonds or notes must be esteemed as secure as his vaults . Such an agent , we have had ; it was the Bank of the United States . The funds it had were its capital and the deposits of the government . Its bond ...
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