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... President , to the People of the United States , Sept. 17 , 1796 . " Is there a doubt , whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere ? -Let experience solve it . ” — Paragraph xiv . " In contemplating the causes which may ...
... President , to the People of the United States , Sept. 17 , 1796 . " Is there a doubt , whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere ? -Let experience solve it . ” — Paragraph xiv . " In contemplating the causes which may ...
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... at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' .. 78 86 109 138 CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to Richmond - President Davis 152 Mrs. Davis at Home CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X. Mr.
... at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' .. 78 86 109 138 CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to Richmond - President Davis 152 Mrs. Davis at Home CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X. Mr.
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... Back at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to Richmond - President Davis 78 86 109 138 152 Mrs. Davis at Home CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X. ..
... Back at the Refuge , and then to the Wakamah and the Blockaders .. CHAPTER VII . Back to Conwayboro ' CHAPTER VIII . First Visit to Richmond - President Davis 78 86 109 138 152 Mrs. Davis at Home CHAPTER IX . CHAPTER X. ..
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... president , John Adams , Major - General Henry Lee , one of the representatives from the state of Virginia , prepared and delivered the funeral oration in the city of Washington on the 26th of December . On the 28th of March , 1800 , it ...
... president , John Adams , Major - General Henry Lee , one of the representatives from the state of Virginia , prepared and delivered the funeral oration in the city of Washington on the 26th of December . On the 28th of March , 1800 , it ...
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... President Lincoln and Mr. Secretary Seward were both in the next room , and at my request Mr. Stanton introduced me to them . A slight sketch of the two men whose names are now so much before the world may here not be mis- placed . The ...
... President Lincoln and Mr. Secretary Seward were both in the next room , and at my request Mr. Stanton introduced me to them . A slight sketch of the two men whose names are now so much before the world may here not be mis- placed . The ...
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Page 20 - We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 81 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 196 - When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion : we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen : the Lord hath done great things for them.
Page 40 - But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 218 - Hark to an exiled son's appeal, Maryland ! My Mother State, to thee I kneel, Maryland ! For life and death, for woe and weal, Thy peerless chivalry reveal, And gird thy beauteous limbs with steel, Maryland, my Maryland! Thou wilt not cower in the dust, Maryland ! Thy beaming sword shall never rust, Maryland ! Remember Carroll's sacred trust, Remember Howard's warlike thrust, And all thy slumberers with the just, Maryland, my Maryland!
Page 161 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 43 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 219 - Maryland ! But lo! there surges forth a shriek, From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake, Maryland, my Maryland! . Thou wilt not yield the Vandal toll, Maryland!