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It is a simple question of reasons . We are not above giving reasons to our fellow men . George Washington himself was not above giving a reason why this Union should not be dissolved . He gave such reasons earnestly and fully in his ...
It is a simple question of reasons . We are not above giving reasons to our fellow men . George Washington himself was not above giving a reason why this Union should not be dissolved . He gave such reasons earnestly and fully in his ...
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I say , sir , then , that I would have preferred the alternative suggested ; but the fact is , without stop- ping to inquire where the fault lies , or whether there be fault at all , the government has not moved , and the reason which ...
I say , sir , then , that I would have preferred the alternative suggested ; but the fact is , without stop- ping to inquire where the fault lies , or whether there be fault at all , the government has not moved , and the reason which ...
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his reason to control the passions which prompted him , he is not responsible . But it must be an absolute dispossession of the free and natural agency of the human mind . In the glowing but just language of Erskine , it is not ...
his reason to control the passions which prompted him , he is not responsible . But it must be an absolute dispossession of the free and natural agency of the human mind . In the glowing but just language of Erskine , it is not ...
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Contents
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR PAGE Xiij | ix |
SPEECHES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES | 51 |
DEBATES IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES | 284 |
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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, 1887 |
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