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... self - defense applies to courts and Legislatures , to communities , and states , and nations , as well as individu ... government and the country to defend that city and its adjacent terri- tory . His duty , as prescribed by the ...
... self - defense applies to courts and Legislatures , to communities , and states , and nations , as well as individu ... government and the country to defend that city and its adjacent terri- tory . His duty , as prescribed by the ...
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... government for supporting what they denounce as an unholy , unrighteous ... self - defense , to repel the invasion of a brutal and perfidious foe ? They ... government , not only on account of the war and the causes which pro- duced it ...
... government for supporting what they denounce as an unholy , unrighteous ... self - defense , to repel the invasion of a brutal and perfidious foe ? They ... government , not only on account of the war and the causes which pro- duced it ...
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... government to be received as minister . Paredes being firmly established in ... self - defense , to repel force by force . With this view an efficient ... government to act strictly on the defensive , and simply to protect American soil ...
... government to be received as minister . Paredes being firmly established in ... self - defense , to repel force by force . With this view an efficient ... government to act strictly on the defensive , and simply to protect American soil ...
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... government , to place our country in the right and the enemy in the wrong , before the civilized world , according ... self on the side of the enemy when our country is invaded by another portion of the Union . To me , our country and ...
... government , to place our country in the right and the enemy in the wrong , before the civilized world , according ... self on the side of the enemy when our country is invaded by another portion of the Union . To me , our country and ...
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... self - government , the interests of Christendom require that some power should preserve order for them . Hence I maintain that we should adopt and observe a line of policy in unison with our own interests and our destiny . I do not ...
... self - government , the interests of Christendom require that some power should preserve order for them . Hence I maintain that we should adopt and observe a line of policy in unison with our own interests and our destiny . I do not ...
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Page 429 - That whenever any of the said states shall have of free inhabitants as many as shall then be in any one of the least numerous of the thirteen original states, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal fooling with the
Page 197 - ia hereby declared inoperative and void, it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.
Page 446 - all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the territory as elsewhere within the United States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which being inconsistent with the principle of
Page 255 - a slate, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission" After asserting this great principle of state equality as applicable to every portion of New Mexico under the Constitution, and as
Page 454 - The United States shall guaranty to every state in this Union a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive, (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Page 458 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces; and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.' Either the cotton and rice fields of South Carolina, and the sugar plantations of
Page 446 - approved March 6, 1820, which being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the states and territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the ' Compromise Measures,' is hereby declared inoperative and void—it being the true intent and meaning of
Page 355 - through, under the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud, and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now—now, when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent ? The result is not doubtful. We shall not fail— if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or
Page 454 - the United States shall guaranty to every state in this Union a Republican form of government; second, the United States shall protect each of them against invasion; third, the United States shall, on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive, when the Legislature can not be convened, protect
Page 132 - And when the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be admitted as a state, it shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.