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This convention will not trust themselves to express their conviction of the catastrophe to which such a state of things inevitably tends . Conscious of their high responsibility to God and their country , solicitous for the continuance ...
This convention will not trust themselves to express their conviction of the catastrophe to which such a state of things inevitably tends . Conscious of their high responsibility to God and their country , solicitous for the continuance ...
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... in the nature of the thing and in the common acceptation of the terms ; and because the confounding of them would lead to the most extravagant results ; since the encouragement of domestic industry implies 30 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
... in the nature of the thing and in the common acceptation of the terms ; and because the confounding of them would lead to the most extravagant results ; since the encouragement of domestic industry implies 30 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
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Sir , this state of things , let me assure gentlemen , must not be suffered to continue or it will inevitably lead to the most unhappy consequences . It has become necessary , thereforeindispensably necessary - that ...
Sir , this state of things , let me assure gentlemen , must not be suffered to continue or it will inevitably lead to the most unhappy consequences . It has become necessary , thereforeindispensably necessary - that ...
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What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure ; or , to use the phraseology of the times , during feeling ? And that feeling , too , not the feeling of the people who established the Constitution , but the feeling ...
What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure ; or , to use the phraseology of the times , during feeling ? And that feeling , too , not the feeling of the people who established the Constitution , but the feeling ...
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What is there now , in the existing state of things , to separate Carolina from Old , more , or rather , than from New England ? And now , sir , what I have first to say on this subject is that at no time and under no circumstances has ...
What is there now , in the existing state of things , to separate Carolina from Old , more , or rather , than from New England ? And now , sir , what I have first to say on this subject is that at no time and under no circumstances has ...
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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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