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... judgment teaches me will best advance their interests . Whether elected or not , I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States , to enable our State , in common with others , to dig canals and ...
... judgment teaches me will best advance their interests . Whether elected or not , I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States , to enable our State , in common with others , to dig canals and ...
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... judgment of courts , and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice . This disposi- tion is awfully fearful in any community ; and that it now exists in ours , though grating to our feelings to admit , it would be ...
... judgment of courts , and the worse than savage mobs for the executive ministers of justice . This disposi- tion is awfully fearful in any community ; and that it now exists in ours , though grating to our feelings to admit , it would be ...
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... judgment . By this influence , the jealousy , envy , and avarice incident to our nature , and so common to a state of peace , prosperity , and conscious strength , were for the time in a great measure smothered and rendered inactive ...
... judgment . By this influence , the jealousy , envy , and avarice incident to our nature , and so common to a state of peace , prosperity , and conscious strength , were for the time in a great measure smothered and rendered inactive ...
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... judgment , and adored of our hearts , in disaster , in chains , in torture , in death , we never faltered in defending . [ Letter to John T. Stuart . Springfield , Illinois , 1 March 1840. ] Dear Stuart : I have never seen the prospects ...
... judgment , and adored of our hearts , in disaster , in chains , in torture , in death , we never faltered in defending . [ Letter to John T. Stuart . Springfield , Illinois , 1 March 1840. ] Dear Stuart : I have never seen the prospects ...
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... judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned , and not to some false and ruinous suggestion of the Devil . The " But , " you will say , " do not your causes apply to every one engaged in a like ...
... judgment on such a subject , beseech you to ascribe it to the causes I have mentioned , and not to some false and ruinous suggestion of the Devil . The " But , " you will say , " do not your causes apply to every one engaged in a like ...
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