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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... these considerations , the represen- tatives of the good people of this commonwealth , anxiously de- siring to live in peace with their fellow citizens and to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the STATE RIGHTS 31.
... these considerations , the represen- tatives of the good people of this commonwealth , anxiously de- siring to live in peace with their fellow citizens and to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the STATE RIGHTS 31.
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... protest ) " be- cause they anxiously desire to live in peace with their brethren , to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the union of the States and the liberties of which it is 34 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
... protest ) " be- cause they anxiously desire to live in peace with their brethren , to do all that in them lies to preserve and perpetuate the union of the States and the liberties of which it is 34 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
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... lives in a glass house , " on his head be the consequences . The gentleman has made a great flourish about his fidelity to Massachusetts . I shall make no professions of zeal for the interests and honor of South Carolina - of that my ...
... lives in a glass house , " on his head be the consequences . The gentleman has made a great flourish about his fidelity to Massachusetts . I shall make no professions of zeal for the interests and honor of South Carolina - of that my ...
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... lives , in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit . If discord and disunion shall wound it ; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness ; if uneasiness , under salutary and ...
... lives , in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit . If discord and disunion shall wound it ; if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it ; if folly and madness ; if uneasiness , under salutary and ...
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... the duties are to be paid . And yet we live under a Government of uniform laws , and under a Con- stitution , too , which contains an express provision , as it hap- pens , that all duties shall be equal in all WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 53.
... the duties are to be paid . And yet we live under a Government of uniform laws , and under a Con- stitution , too , which contains an express provision , as it hap- pens , that all duties shall be equal in all WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 53.
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