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Page 187
... England . Ireland labored under one enduring misfortune - it was the misfortune that , for many centuries , she had remained unconquered and unconquerable . The crime provoked the cupid- ity of England , the misfortune begat divisions ...
... England . Ireland labored under one enduring misfortune - it was the misfortune that , for many centuries , she had remained unconquered and unconquerable . The crime provoked the cupid- ity of England , the misfortune begat divisions ...
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William Henry Seward George E. Baker. hands of England . The British nation is a mercantile one . We also are a mercantile people with whom England deals largely , and we are agents in carrying on a large portion of the commerce of England ...
William Henry Seward George E. Baker. hands of England . The British nation is a mercantile one . We also are a mercantile people with whom England deals largely , and we are agents in carrying on a large portion of the commerce of England ...
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... England too well to believe that she would hazard shaking that fruit into our hands , for all that she could hope to gain by insisting on , or en- forcing with armed power , her rigorous construction of the con- vention concerning the ...
... England too well to believe that she would hazard shaking that fruit into our hands , for all that she could hope to gain by insisting on , or en- forcing with armed power , her rigorous construction of the con- vention concerning the ...
Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR PAGE Xiij | ix |
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE OF NEW YORK | 1 |
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES | 51 |
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