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The facilities of the present day leave no excuse for a similar neglect in regard to our own orators and statesmen . The Editor of these volumes , though by no means unconscious of his slight qualifications for so important a task ...
The facilities of the present day leave no excuse for a similar neglect in regard to our own orators and statesmen . The Editor of these volumes , though by no means unconscious of his slight qualifications for so important a task ...
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... his talents , and his pecuniary means to the defence of the wronged and oppressed of every caste and color - he has gained the lasting gratitude and love of the people with whom , for over a quarter of a century , he has lived as a ...
... his talents , and his pecuniary means to the defence of the wronged and oppressed of every caste and color - he has gained the lasting gratitude and love of the people with whom , for over a quarter of a century , he has lived as a ...
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... tend to the consummation of violence ; all that check its extension and abate its strength , tend to its peaceful extirpation . But I will adopt none but lawful , constitutional , and peaceful means , to secure even that end ...
... tend to the consummation of violence ; all that check its extension and abate its strength , tend to its peaceful extirpation . But I will adopt none but lawful , constitutional , and peaceful means , to secure even that end ...
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During , his travels in Ireland in 1833 , he saw the effect of British policy in depriving the catholic population of the means of instruction . The people , thus kept in abject ignorance , were more easily made the victims of ...
During , his travels in Ireland in 1833 , he saw the effect of British policy in depriving the catholic population of the means of instruction . The people , thus kept in abject ignorance , were more easily made the victims of ...
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Samuel B. Ruggles , chairman of the committee of ways and means in the assembly , who showed that the increase of tolls on the canals would sustain a loan of thirty millions of dollars , reimbursing it in twenty years , or of forty ...
Samuel B. Ruggles , chairman of the committee of ways and means in the assembly , who showed that the increase of tolls on the canals would sustain a loan of thirty millions of dollars , reimbursing it in twenty years , or of forty ...
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| Title | The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 1 The Works of William H. Seward, William Henry Seward |
| Author | William Henry Seward |
| Editor | George E. Baker |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 2 Sep 2009 |
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