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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... Representative THOMAS CLAYTON ( Ga . ) ; opposed , Senator HENRY CLAY ( Ky . ) , President ANDREW JACKSON . Debate in the Senate on the " Force Bill " : in favor , WIL- LIAM H. WILKINS ( Pa . ) , FELIX GRUNDY ( Tenn . ) , DANIEL WEBSTER ...
... Representative THOMAS CLAYTON ( Ga . ) ; opposed , Senator HENRY CLAY ( Ky . ) , President ANDREW JACKSON . Debate in the Senate on the " Force Bill " : in favor , WIL- LIAM H. WILKINS ( Pa . ) , FELIX GRUNDY ( Tenn . ) , DANIEL WEBSTER ...
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... Representative from Fayette county , was appointed chairman of the committee of three to consider the address and make a report to the House . He gave notice that on the next day he proposed to move that the House should go into ...
... Representative from Fayette county , was appointed chairman of the committee of three to consider the address and make a report to the House . He gave notice that on the next day he proposed to move that the House should go into ...
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... Representatives in Pennsylvania were , indeed , in hearty sympathy with the movement , but they did not dare submit the resolution they had adopted to the Sen- ate , because of its well - known antagonism to the princi- ples advocated ...
... Representatives in Pennsylvania were , indeed , in hearty sympathy with the movement , but they did not dare submit the resolution they had adopted to the Sen- ate , because of its well - known antagonism to the princi- ples advocated ...
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... representatives among the slaveholding States . This cannot . be claimed as a right . Those States are entitled to the slave representation by a constitutional compact . It is therefore merely a subject of agreement , which should be ...
... representatives among the slaveholding States . This cannot . be claimed as a right . Those States are entitled to the slave representation by a constitutional compact . It is therefore merely a subject of agreement , which should be ...
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... Representatives of South Carolina do solemnly protest against the system of protecting duties lately adopted by the Federal Government , for the following reasons : 1. Because the good people of this commonwealth believe that the powers ...
... Representatives of South Carolina do solemnly protest against the system of protecting duties lately adopted by the Federal Government , for the following reasons : 1. Because the good people of this commonwealth believe that the powers ...
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