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We , sir , who oppose the Carolina doctrine , do not deny that the people may , if they choose , throw off any government when it becomes oppressive and intolerable , and erect a better in its stead . We all know that civil institutions ...
We , sir , who oppose the Carolina doctrine , do not deny that the people may , if they choose , throw off any government when it becomes oppressive and intolerable , and erect a better in its stead . We all know that civil institutions ...
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The gentleman's opinion may be that the right ought not to have been lodged with the general Government ; he may like better such a constitution as we should have under the right of State interference ; but I ask him to meet me WEBSTER ...
The gentleman's opinion may be that the right ought not to have been lodged with the general Government ; he may like better such a constitution as we should have under the right of State interference ; but I ask him to meet me WEBSTER ...
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A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT Stand " ABRAHAM LINCOLN If we could first know where we are , and whither we are tending , we could better judge what to do , and how to do it . We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was ...
A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF CANNOT Stand " ABRAHAM LINCOLN If we could first know where we are , and whither we are tending , we could better judge what to do , and how to do it . We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was ...
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But " a living dog is better than a dead lion . " Judge Douglas , if not a dead lion for this work , is at least a caged and toothless one . How can he oppose the advances of slavery ? He doesn't care anything about it .
But " a living dog is better than a dead lion . " Judge Douglas , if not a dead lion for this work , is at least a caged and toothless one . How can he oppose the advances of slavery ? He doesn't care anything about it .
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You will find that all the arguments in favor of kingcraft were of this class ; they always bestrode the necks of the people - not that they wanted to do it , but because the people were better off for being ridden .
You will find that all the arguments in favor of kingcraft were of this class ; they always bestrode the necks of the people - not that they wanted to do it , but because the people were better off for being ridden .
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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