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... statesmen began seriously to contemplate that measure to which they had so often threatened in moments of passion to resort - secession . It is therefore in place here to revert to the question of State versus National rights ...
... statesmen began seriously to contemplate that measure to which they had so often threatened in moments of passion to resort - secession . It is therefore in place here to revert to the question of State versus National rights ...
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The tendency of all these ideas and sentiments is obviously to bring the Union into discussion , as a mere question of present and temporary expediency ; nothing more than a mere matter of profit and loss .
The tendency of all these ideas and sentiments is obviously to bring the Union into discussion , as a mere question of present and temporary expediency ; nothing more than a mere matter of profit and loss .
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Now , sir , as the gentleman has not condescended to enter into any examination of the question , and has been satisfied with throwing the weight of his authority into the scale , I do not deem it necessary to do more than to throw into ...
Now , sir , as the gentleman has not condescended to enter into any examination of the question , and has been satisfied with throwing the weight of his authority into the scale , I do not deem it necessary to do more than to throw into ...
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That question was decided by the people , and by that decision the Constitution was , in the emphatic language of Mr. Jefferson , " saved at its last gasp . " Resting on authority like this , I will ask gentlemen whether South Carolina ...
That question was decided by the people , and by that decision the Constitution was , in the emphatic language of Mr. Jefferson , " saved at its last gasp . " Resting on authority like this , I will ask gentlemen whether South Carolina ...
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Can anyone fail to see that it was designed to raise in the reader's mind the question whether , at this time - that is to say , in 1828 , South Carolina has any collision with the King's ministers , any oppression or extortion ...
Can anyone fail to see that it was designed to raise in the reader's mind the question whether , at this time - that is to say , in 1828 , South Carolina has any collision with the King's ministers , any oppression or extortion ...
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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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