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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... meet him at the threshold . I will struggle while I have life for our altars and our firesides , and , if God gives me strength , I will drive back the invader , discomfited . Nor shall I stop there . If the gentleman provokes the war ...
... meet him at the threshold . I will struggle while I have life for our altars and our firesides , and , if God gives me strength , I will drive back the invader , discomfited . Nor shall I stop there . If the gentleman provokes the war ...
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... meets my hearty concurrence . I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for what- ever of distinguished talent or distinguished character South Carolina has produced . I claim part of the honor , I ...
... meets my hearty concurrence . I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for what- ever of distinguished talent or distinguished character South Carolina has produced . I claim part of the honor , I ...
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... meet with a braver sympathy than that which sprung from the bosoms of Carolinians ? We had no extortion , no oppression , no collision with the king's ministers , no navigation interests springing up in envious rivalry of England ...
... meet with a braver sympathy than that which sprung from the bosoms of Carolinians ? We had no extortion , no oppression , no collision with the king's ministers , no navigation interests springing up in envious rivalry of England ...
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... may be that the right ought not to have been lodged with the general Government ; he may like better such a constitution as we should have under the right of State interference ; but I ask him to meet me WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 63.
... may be that the right ought not to have been lodged with the general Government ; he may like better such a constitution as we should have under the right of State interference ; but I ask him to meet me WEBSTER - HAYNE DEBATE 63.
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Marion Mills Miller. State interference ; but I ask him to meet me on the plain mat- ter of fact ; I ask him to meet me on the Constitution itself ; I ask him if the power is not found there , clearly and visibly found there ? But , sir ...
Marion Mills Miller. State interference ; but I ask him to meet me on the plain mat- ter of fact ; I ask him to meet me on the Constitution itself ; I ask him if the power is not found there , clearly and visibly found there ? But , sir ...
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