Speeches of Abraham Lincoln: Including Inaugurals and ProclamationsA.L. Burt Company, 1906 - 417 pages |
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... Texas had joined South Carolina in passing ordinances of secession . Later on , the States of Virginia , North Carolina , Arkansas , and Tennessee joined the new - pledged Confederacy and took themselves out of the Union . While these ...
... Texas had joined South Carolina in passing ordinances of secession . Later on , the States of Virginia , North Carolina , Arkansas , and Tennessee joined the new - pledged Confederacy and took themselves out of the Union . While these ...
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... Texas , then recently admitted as a State of the Union . In the uncertainty as to the true boundary of the State , —whether at the Nueces River , in South- Western Texas , or at the Rio Grande , -Lincoln held that the Administration had ...
... Texas , then recently admitted as a State of the Union . In the uncertainty as to the true boundary of the State , —whether at the Nueces River , in South- Western Texas , or at the Rio Grande , -Lincoln held that the Administration had ...
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... Texas is the Nueces , instead of the Rio Grande ; and that , therefore , in marching our army to the east bank of the latter river , we passed the Texas line and invaded the territory of Mexico . " Now this issue is made up of two ...
... Texas is the Nueces , instead of the Rio Grande ; and that , therefore , in marching our army to the east bank of the latter river , we passed the Texas line and invaded the territory of Mexico . " Now this issue is made up of two ...
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... Texas recog- nized the Rio Grande as her boundary . ( 5 ) That Texas before , and the United States after , annexation had exercised jurisdiction beyond the Neuces - between the two rivers . ( 6 ) That our Congress understood the ...
... Texas recog- nized the Rio Grande as her boundary . ( 5 ) That Texas before , and the United States after , annexation had exercised jurisdiction beyond the Neuces - between the two rivers . ( 6 ) That our Congress understood the ...
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... Texas always claimed this river ( Rio Grande ) as her western boundary . " That is not true , in fact . Texas has claimed it , but she has not always claimed it . There is at least one distinguished excep- tion . Her State constitution ...
... Texas always claimed this river ( Rio Grande ) as her western boundary . " That is not true , in fact . Texas has claimed it , but she has not always claimed it . There is at least one distinguished excep- tion . Her State constitution ...
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