Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... course calculated to do more injury to their coun- try and to render England more effective service than all her armies . Those who could not find it in their hearts to rejoice at our victories sang " Te Deum " at the King's Chapel in ...
... course calculated to do more injury to their coun- try and to render England more effective service than all her armies . Those who could not find it in their hearts to rejoice at our victories sang " Te Deum " at the King's Chapel in ...
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... course with the other nations of the world . Externally , in peace and in war , amid the fluctuations of commerce and the strife of arms , it has protected our interests and defended our rights . One trial , one fearful trial , yet ...
... course with the other nations of the world . Externally , in peace and in war , amid the fluctuations of commerce and the strife of arms , it has protected our interests and defended our rights . One trial , one fearful trial , yet ...
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... course , however necessary , which may have a tendency to excite sectional feelings and sectional jealousies . But , sir , the task has been forced upon me , and I proceed right onward to the performance of my duty ; be the consequences ...
... course , however necessary , which may have a tendency to excite sectional feelings and sectional jealousies . But , sir , the task has been forced upon me , and I proceed right onward to the performance of my duty ; be the consequences ...
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... course , between submission to the laws , when regularly pronounced constitutional , on the one hand , and open resistance , which is revolution , or rebellion , on the other . I say the right of a State to annul a law of Congress ...
... course , between submission to the laws , when regularly pronounced constitutional , on the one hand , and open resistance , which is revolution , or rebellion , on the other . I say the right of a State to annul a law of Congress ...
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... course of that opposition . We shall then see what similarity there is between the New England school of constitutional opinions and this modern Carolina school . The gentleman , I think , read a petition from some single individual ...
... course of that opposition . We shall then see what similarity there is between the New England school of constitutional opinions and this modern Carolina school . The gentleman , I think , read a petition from some single individual ...
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