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If alive on the first Monday in November , I shall vote for Hugh L. Wmite for President . [ Letter to Colonel Robert Alen , 21 June 1836. ] No one Dear Colonel : I am told that during mov absence last week you passed through this place ...
If alive on the first Monday in November , I shall vote for Hugh L. Wmite for President . [ Letter to Colonel Robert Alen , 21 June 1836. ] No one Dear Colonel : I am told that during mov absence last week you passed through this place ...
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ܠܐ As to the country now in question [ Mexico ] we bought it of France in 1803 , and sold it to Spain in 1819 , according to the President's statements . After this , all Mexico , including Texas , revolutionized against Spain ...
ܠܐ As to the country now in question [ Mexico ] we bought it of France in 1803 , and sold it to Spain in 1819 , according to the President's statements . After this , all Mexico , including Texas , revolutionized against Spain ...
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I have a selfish motive for desiring that the President may do this — I expect to gain some votes , in connection with the war , which , without his so doing , will be of doubtful propriety in my own judgment , but which will be free ...
I have a selfish motive for desiring that the President may do this — I expect to gain some votes , in connection with the war , which , without his so doing , will be of doubtful propriety in my own judgment , but which will be free ...
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Again , the President is resolved under all circumstances to have full territorial indemnity for the expenses ; but he forgets to tell us how we are to get the excess after those expenses shall have surpassed the value of the whole of ...
Again , the President is resolved under all circumstances to have full territorial indemnity for the expenses ; but he forgets to tell us how we are to get the excess after those expenses shall have surpassed the value of the whole of ...
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And yet it is a question which the President seems never to have thought of . As to the mode of terminating the war and securing peace , the President is equally wandering and indefinite . First , it is to be done by a more vigorous ...
And yet it is a question which the President seems never to have thought of . As to the mode of terminating the war and securing peace , the President is equally wandering and indefinite . First , it is to be done by a more vigorous ...
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