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... enemy , than for any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so happen that nobody else wishes to be elected , I could not refuse the people the right of sending me again . But to enter myself as a competitor of others , or to ...
... enemy , than for any cause personal to myself ; so that , if it should so happen that nobody else wishes to be elected , I could not refuse the people the right of sending me again . But to enter myself as a competitor of others , or to ...
Page 55
... enemy's coun- try ; and after apparently talking himself tired on this point , the President drops down into a half - despairing tone , and tells us that " with a people distracted and divided by con- tending factions , and a government ...
... enemy's coun- try ; and after apparently talking himself tired on this point , the President drops down into a half - despairing tone , and tells us that " with a people distracted and divided by con- tending factions , and a government ...
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... enemy , but upon the public treasury . He was Governor of Michigan Terri- tory , and ex - officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs , from the 9th of October , 1813 , till the 31st of July , 1831 - a period of seventeen years , nine ...
... enemy , but upon the public treasury . He was Governor of Michigan Terri- tory , and ex - officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs , from the 9th of October , 1813 , till the 31st of July , 1831 - a period of seventeen years , nine ...
Page 75
... enemies of free insti- tutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ; and especially because it forces so many good men among ourselves into an open war with the very ...
... enemies of free insti- tutions with plausibility to taunt us as hypocrites ; causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity ; and especially because it forces so many good men among ourselves into an open war with the very ...
Page 84
... enemies , but the warning of friends . Is it quite safe to disregard it - to despise it ? Is there no danger to lib- erty itself in discarding the earliest practice and first pre- cept of our ancient faith ? In our greedy chase to make ...
... enemies , but the warning of friends . Is it quite safe to disregard it - to despise it ? Is there no danger to lib- erty itself in discarding the earliest practice and first pre- cept of our ancient faith ? In our greedy chase to make ...
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