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Now , sir , I do not desire to call in question the motives of the gentlemen who composed that assembly ; I knew many of them to be in private life accomplished and honorable men , and I doubt not there were some among them who did not ...
Now , sir , I do not desire to call in question the motives of the gentlemen who composed that assembly ; I knew many of them to be in private life accomplished and honorable men , and I doubt not there were some among them who did not ...
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Senator Berrien spoke as follows upon the protest : Forty years of successful experiment have proved the efficiency of this Government to sustain us in an honorable intercourse with the other nations of the world .
Senator Berrien spoke as follows upon the protest : Forty years of successful experiment have proved the efficiency of this Government to sustain us in an honorable intercourse with the other nations of the world .
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I know that there are some persons in the part of the country from which the honorable member comes who habitually speak of the Union in terms of indifference or even of disparagement . The honorable member himself is not , I trust ...
I know that there are some persons in the part of the country from which the honorable member comes who habitually speak of the Union in terms of indifference or even of disparagement . The honorable member himself is not , I trust ...
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The honorable gentleman from Massachusetts [ Mr. Webster ] , while he exonerates me personally from the charge , intimates that there is a party in the country who are looking to disunion . Now , I call upon everyone who hears me to ...
The honorable gentleman from Massachusetts [ Mr. Webster ] , while he exonerates me personally from the charge , intimates that there is a party in the country who are looking to disunion . Now , I call upon everyone who hears me to ...
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SENATOR WEBSTER said : In carrying his warfare , such as it was , into New England , the honorable gentleman all along professes to be acting on the defensive . He elects to consider me as having assailed South Carolina , and insists ...
SENATOR WEBSTER said : In carrying his warfare , such as it was , into New England , the honorable gentleman all along professes to be acting on the defensive . He elects to consider me as having assailed South Carolina , and insists ...
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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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