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Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and permanent . They may be found to proceed , not merely from the blindness of prejudice , pride of opinion , violence of party spirit , or the confusion of the times ...
Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and permanent . They may be found to proceed , not merely from the blindness of prejudice , pride of opinion , violence of party spirit , or the confusion of the times ...
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Without pausing at present to comment upon the causes of the war , it may be assumed as a truth , officially announced , that to achieve the conquest of Canadian territory , and to hold it as a pledge for peace , is the deliberate ...
Without pausing at present to comment upon the causes of the war , it may be assumed as a truth , officially announced , that to achieve the conquest of Canadian territory , and to hold it as a pledge for peace , is the deliberate ...
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XII , chapter iv ) caused great indignation in the South , especially in South Carolina and Georgia . Mass meetings were held in ... would be chosen President in the fall election and that he would uphold the cause of his section .
XII , chapter iv ) caused great indignation in the South , especially in South Carolina and Georgia . Mass meetings were held in ... would be chosen President in the fall election and that he would uphold the cause of his section .
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... he might perhaps say the insuperable , difficulty of causing their sentiments and feelings to be made known so as to be understood and appreciated by their fellow citizens in other quarters of the Union . Viewing the United States ...
... he might perhaps say the insuperable , difficulty of causing their sentiments and feelings to be made known so as to be understood and appreciated by their fellow citizens in other quarters of the Union . Viewing the United States ...
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But trampling on all considerations , either of interest or of safety , they rushed into the conflict , and , fighting for principle , periled all in the sacred cause of freedom . Never were there exhibited in the history of the world ...
But trampling on all considerations , either of interest or of safety , they rushed into the conflict , and , fighting for principle , periled all in the sacred cause of freedom . Never were there exhibited in the history of the world ...
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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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