The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... Citizens . - Ridiculed by the Radical Journals . - Governor Andrew on the " Clean Hands " of Massachusetts.- The Concession required to save War really slight . - But the Radicals determined to force Matters to an Issue . - Mr . Wade ...
... Citizens . - Ridiculed by the Radical Journals . - Governor Andrew on the " Clean Hands " of Massachusetts.- The Concession required to save War really slight . - But the Radicals determined to force Matters to an Issue . - Mr . Wade ...
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... citizens , and probably twice as many of those who were made the occasion of the contest . This contest also placed the free institutions of the coun- try in a state of peril still furnishing grounds of just appre- hension . I have ...
... citizens , and probably twice as many of those who were made the occasion of the contest . This contest also placed the free institutions of the coun- try in a state of peril still furnishing grounds of just appre- hension . I have ...
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... citizens for a long time kept those interests at the proper balance , or the passions which were thus stimulated under just control . As those great men passed away , self - seeking and ambitious demagogues , the pest of republics ...
... citizens for a long time kept those interests at the proper balance , or the passions which were thus stimulated under just control . As those great men passed away , self - seeking and ambitious demagogues , the pest of republics ...
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... citizens ; and their boast has been of their State quite as much as of their country . It is easy to see how , from any excessive indulgence of this sentiment ( and cer- tainly there has been much in the annals of Massachusetts to ...
... citizens ; and their boast has been of their State quite as much as of their country . It is easy to see how , from any excessive indulgence of this sentiment ( and cer- tainly there has been much in the annals of Massachusetts to ...
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... citizens , no disposition has been heretofore shown to place the black man upon any terms of actual equality with the white . This anomaly is especially marked in Massachusetts , at last the most forward of all the States in promoting ...
... citizens , no disposition has been heretofore shown to place the black man upon any terms of actual equality with the white . This anomaly is especially marked in Massachusetts , at last the most forward of all the States in promoting ...
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