Landmarks of Liberty: The Growth of American Political Ideals as Recorded in Speeches from Otis to Hughes, Ed. with Introduction and Notes |
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... France disturbs your fisheries in New- foundland , embarrasses your slave trade to Africa , and withholds from your subjects in Canada their property stipulated by treaty ; while the ransom for the Manilas is denied by Spain , and its ...
... France disturbs your fisheries in New- foundland , embarrasses your slave trade to Africa , and withholds from your subjects in Canada their property stipulated by treaty ; while the ransom for the Manilas is denied by Spain , and its ...
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... France , nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people - a people who are still , as it were , but in ...
... France , nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise , ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people - a people who are still , as it were , but in ...
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... France or England had been removed through war or diplo- macy . At this happy time , state after state was added to the Union . In territory , in population , in wealth , in education , unexampled progress was made . It was a period ...
... France or England had been removed through war or diplo- macy . At this happy time , state after state was added to the Union . In territory , in population , in wealth , in education , unexampled progress was made . It was a period ...
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... France , and caused a thrill in your ardent bosom . You see the lines of the little redoubt thrown up by the incredible diligence of Prescott ; defended to the last extremity by his lion - hearted valor ; and within which the corner ...
... France , and caused a thrill in your ardent bosom . You see the lines of the little redoubt thrown up by the incredible diligence of Prescott ; defended to the last extremity by his lion - hearted valor ; and within which the corner ...
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... France in the British . mail steamer Trent . The ship was stopped by the U. S. sloop of war San Jacinto , commanded by Cap- tain Wilkes , and the envoys were seized and im- prisoned in a fort in Boston harbor . The affair raised a storm ...
... France in the British . mail steamer Trent . The ship was stopped by the U. S. sloop of war San Jacinto , commanded by Cap- tain Wilkes , and the envoys were seized and im- prisoned in a fort in Boston harbor . The affair raised a storm ...
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