The Works of William H. Seward, Volume 3Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 - Legislators |
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... canals , railroads , and tele- graphs , continually extending and fastening upon every part of this comprehensive region - hold it together in union as indisso- luble as it was inevitable . The American continent , with its adjacent ...
... canals , railroads , and tele- graphs , continually extending and fastening upon every part of this comprehensive region - hold it together in union as indisso- luble as it was inevitable . The American continent , with its adjacent ...
Page 12
... canals , railroads , and tele- graphs , continually extending and fastening upon every part of this comprehensive region - hold it together in union as indisso- luble as it was inevitable . The American continent , with its adjacent ...
... canals , railroads , and tele- graphs , continually extending and fastening upon every part of this comprehensive region - hold it together in union as indisso- luble as it was inevitable . The American continent , with its adjacent ...
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... canals or roads , and were hemmed in between the forest and the ocean by savage tribes . Our schools gave scarcely more than rudimental education , and we were without libraries or lit- erature , and without invention . It is not ...
... canals or roads , and were hemmed in between the forest and the ocean by savage tribes . Our schools gave scarcely more than rudimental education , and we were without libraries or lit- erature , and without invention . It is not ...
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... canals and railroads spread like network over all our populous territory ; that the In- dian tribes are our stipendiaries ; and that we have a system of general education , with universities nobly endowed , charities vig- orous and ...
... canals and railroads spread like network over all our populous territory ; that the In- dian tribes are our stipendiaries ; and that we have a system of general education , with universities nobly endowed , charities vig- orous and ...
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... canals are avenues of that internal trade and that postal commu- nication , and are means of that national defence , which fall within the subjects of action properly belonging to the federal govern- ment . Moreover , that government ...
... canals are avenues of that internal trade and that postal commu- nication , and are means of that national defence , which fall within the subjects of action properly belonging to the federal govern- ment . Moreover , that government ...
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