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Whatever then their cause may be , it is common to the whole country . It would be tedious as well as useless to recount the horrors of all of them . Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most ...
Whatever then their cause may be , it is common to the whole country . It would be tedious as well as useless to recount the horrors of all of them . Those happening in the State of Mississippi and at St. Louis are perhaps the most ...
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There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their tendency , which have not existed heretofore , and which are not too insignificant to merit attention . That our government should have been maintained in its ...
There are now , and will hereafter be , many causes , dangerous in their tendency , which have not existed heretofore , and which are not too insignificant to merit attention . That our government should have been maintained in its ...
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And thus , from the force of circumstances , the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant , or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest of causes — that of establishing and maintaining civil ...
And thus , from the force of circumstances , the basest principles of our nature were either made to lie dormant , or to become the active agents in the advancement of the noblest of causes — that of establishing and maintaining civil ...
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The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just ; it shall not deter me . If ever I feel the 26 LETTERS AND ADDRESSES.
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If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of my country , deserted by all the world beside , and I standing up boldly and ...
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect , it is when I contemplate the cause of my country , deserted by all the world beside , and I standing up boldly and ...
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