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Deeply impressed with these considerations , the representatives of the good people of this commonwealth , anxiously desiring to live in peace with their fellow citizens and to ...
Deeply impressed with these considerations , the representatives of the good people of this commonwealth , anxiously desiring to live in peace with their fellow citizens and to ...
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... because 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.
... because 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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And yet we live under a Government of uniform laws , and under a Constitution , too , which contains an express provision , as it happens , that all duties shall be equal in all the WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 53.
And yet we live under a Government of uniform laws , and under a Constitution , too , which contains an express provision , as it happens , that all duties shall be equal in all the WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 53.
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It would not be adequate to any practical good nor fit for any country to live under . To avoid all possibility of being misunderstood , allow me to repeat again , in the fullest manner , that I claim no powers for the Government by ...
It would not be adequate to any practical good nor fit for any country to live under . To avoid all possibility of being misunderstood , allow me to repeat again , in the fullest manner , that I claim no powers for the Government by ...
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If you will not withdraw your exactions , if you will not live with us upon the terms of equal rights , I tell you in the language of plain truth , to which , perhaps , you are unaccustomed , we shall certainly part from you , and part ...
If you will not withdraw your exactions , if you will not live with us upon the terms of equal rights , I tell you in the language of plain truth , to which , perhaps , you are unaccustomed , we shall certainly part from you , and part ...
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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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