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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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... entitled to such distinction , and who have sold themselves as ready instruments for distracting public opinion , and encouraging administration to hold in contempt the wishes and remonstrances of a people thus apparently divided .
... entitled to such distinction , and who have sold themselves as ready instruments for distracting public opinion , and encouraging administration to hold in contempt the wishes and remonstrances of a people thus apparently divided .
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Do they mean , or can they mean , anything more than that the Union of the States will be strengthened by whatever continues or furnishes inducements to the people of the States to hold together ? If they mean merely this , then , no ...
Do they mean , or can they mean , anything more than that the Union of the States will be strengthened by whatever continues or furnishes inducements to the people of the States to hold together ? If they mean merely this , then , no ...
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I would strengthen the ties that hold us together . Far , indeed , in my wishes , very far distant be the day , when our associated and fraternal stripes shall be severed asunder , and when that happy constellation under which we have ...
I would strengthen the ties that hold us together . Far , indeed , in my wishes , very far distant be the day , when our associated and fraternal stripes shall be severed asunder , and when that happy constellation under which we have ...
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So far as the people have given power to the general Government , so far the grant is unquestionably good , and the Government holds of the people , and not of the State governments . We are all agents of the same supreme power ...
So far as the people have given power to the general Government , so far the grant is unquestionably good , and the Government holds of the people , and not of the State governments . We are all agents of the same supreme power ...
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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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