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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... liberty survived , and South Carolina ( sustained by the example of her Sumters and her Marions ) proved by her conduct that , though her soil might be overrun , the spirit of her people was invin- cible . The Senator from Massachusetts ...
... liberty survived , and South Carolina ( sustained by the example of her Sumters and her Marions ) proved by her conduct that , though her soil might be overrun , the spirit of her people was invin- cible . The Senator from Massachusetts ...
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... liberty which has always been the most prominent trait in the Southern character , we should be hurried beyond the bounds of a cold and calculating prudence , who is there with one noble and generous sentiment in his bosom that would ...
... liberty which has always been the most prominent trait in the Southern character , we should be hurried beyond the bounds of a cold and calculating prudence , who is there with one noble and generous sentiment in his bosom that would ...
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... liberty and the country ; or if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven - if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South - and if , moved by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy , I get up here to abate the ...
... liberty and the country ; or if I see an uncommon endowment of Heaven - if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South - and if , moved by local prejudice or gangrened by State jealousy , I get up here to abate the ...
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... liberty to coin money . Again , the Constitution says that no sovereign State shall be so sovereign as to make a treaty . These prohibitions , it must be confessed , are a control on the State sovereignty of South Carolina , as well as ...
... liberty to coin money . Again , the Constitution says that no sovereign State shall be so sovereign as to make a treaty . These prohibitions , it must be confessed , are a control on the State sovereignty of South Carolina , as well as ...
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... liberty ? The liberty of establishing their own opinions , in defiance of the opinions of all others ; the liberty of judging and deciding exclusively themselves , in a matter in which others have as much right to judge and decide as ...
... liberty ? The liberty of establishing their own opinions , in defiance of the opinions of all others ; the liberty of judging and deciding exclusively themselves , in a matter in which others have as much right to judge and decide as ...
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