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... LEGISLATURE PATER UNIVERSITATIS MISSOURIENSIS 3 8 PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CURATORS THE MAN 68 22 23 88 31 40 50 NOTES Two VOICES ANALECTA FROM " REPLY TO MR . GOODE " LETTER TO MR . DUNN ON THE REBELLION LETTER TO ELECTORS 77 81 117 ...
... LEGISLATURE PATER UNIVERSITATIS MISSOURIENSIS 3 8 PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF CURATORS THE MAN 68 22 23 88 31 40 50 NOTES Two VOICES ANALECTA FROM " REPLY TO MR . GOODE " LETTER TO MR . DUNN ON THE REBELLION LETTER TO ELECTORS 77 81 117 ...
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... legislature for a grant of public lands in aid of the system of internal improvement projected by the convention . How extensively this idea has since been adopted by that body , and with what far reaching and mo- mentous consequences ...
... legislature for a grant of public lands in aid of the system of internal improvement projected by the convention . How extensively this idea has since been adopted by that body , and with what far reaching and mo- mentous consequences ...
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... Legislature . The session of 1838-39 was an important one , and offered him ample opportunity , which he was not slow in seizing , to " make by force his merit known . " Here it was , in fact , that he met and learned to know his ideal ...
... Legislature . The session of 1838-39 was an important one , and offered him ample opportunity , which he was not slow in seizing , to " make by force his merit known . " Here it was , in fact , that he met and learned to know his ideal ...
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... Legislature by a large and increased majority . In that , the Eleventh General Assembly , there was an unusual assemblage of talent . The compeers of Rollins numbered in their ranks not a few who attained great note and prominence in ...
... Legislature by a large and increased majority . In that , the Eleventh General Assembly , there was an unusual assemblage of talent . The compeers of Rollins numbered in their ranks not a few who attained great note and prominence in ...
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... Legislature was unwilling to do even this trifle for the University ; the task of its own higher education the State was unwilling to touch even with one of its little fingers . At the next session , in an elab- orate and well reasoned ...
... Legislature was unwilling to do even this trifle for the University ; the task of its own higher education the State was unwilling to touch even with one of its little fingers . At the next session , in an elab- orate and well reasoned ...
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Page 209 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 127 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as a matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations — northern and southern — Atlantic and western ; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 143 - It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union,— that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void...
Page 141 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution. and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired:...
Page 214 - Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success: that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come. But in these cases We still have judgment here; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Page 199 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that.
Page 142 - Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the accession of a Republican Administration their property and their peace and personal security are to be endangered. There has never been any reasonable cause for such apprehension. Indeed, the most ample evidence to the contrary has all the while existed and been open to their inspection. It is found in nearly all the public speeches of him who now addresses you.
Page 196 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 143 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states, and especially the right of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 190 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.