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... had proclaimed her purpose of " reducing us to unconditional submission " -we beheld the peace party in New England ( in the language of the work [ " The Olive Branch " ] before us ) pursuing a course calculated to do more injury to ...
... had proclaimed her purpose of " reducing us to unconditional submission " -we beheld the peace party in New England ( in the language of the work [ " The Olive Branch " ] before us ) pursuing a course calculated to do more injury to ...
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I shrink almost instinetively from a 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 ...
I shrink almost instinetively from a 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 ...
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But I cannot conceive that there can be a middle 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 .
But I cannot conceive that there can be a middle 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 .
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Let us follow up , sir , this New England opposition to the embargo laws ; let us trace it till we discern the principle which controlled and governed New England throughout the whole course of that opposition .
Let us follow up , sir , this New England opposition to the embargo laws ; let us trace it till we discern the principle which controlled and governed New England throughout the whole course of that opposition .
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... would wish to learn , if they , by military force and array , resisted the execution , in Carolina , of a law of the United States , and it should turn out , after all , that the law was constitutional ? He would answer , of course ...
... would wish to learn , if they , by military force and array , resisted the execution , in Carolina , of a law of the United States , and it should turn out , after all , that the law was constitutional ? He would answer , of course ...
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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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