Why I Am a Republican: A History of the Republican Party, a Defense of Its Policy and the Reasons which Justify Its Continuance in Power, with Biographical Sketches of the Republican CandidatesW.J. Betts & Company, 1884 - 64 pages |
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... claim to continuing public confidence rests , have all been resisted , and often they have been denounced by the Democratic party . Execution of those measures yet remains to be done . The great struggle through which the nation has ...
... claim to continuing public confidence rests , have all been resisted , and often they have been denounced by the Democratic party . Execution of those measures yet remains to be done . The great struggle through which the nation has ...
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... claim to anti - slavery opinions . He was an open advocate of the annexation of Texas . Mr. Clay may have had misgivings as to the system of slavery , but he was wanting in principle , or he lacked the courage to make a declaration of ...
... claim to anti - slavery opinions . He was an open advocate of the annexation of Texas . Mr. Clay may have had misgivings as to the system of slavery , but he was wanting in principle , or he lacked the courage to make a declaration of ...
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... claim to the territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River . By annexation the United States accepted the controversy , and the war which then existed between Texas and Mexico . Mr. Polk was President . General Taylor was ...
... claim to the territory between the Rio Grande and the Nueces River . By annexation the United States accepted the controversy , and the war which then existed between Texas and Mexico . Mr. Polk was President . General Taylor was ...
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... claim had some foundation in the fact that all of Utah and part of New Mexico were north of the parallel 36 ° 30 ' , but there was a careful concealment of the claim when the compromise measures of 1850 were before Congress and the ...
... claim had some foundation in the fact that all of Utah and part of New Mexico were north of the parallel 36 ° 30 ' , but there was a careful concealment of the claim when the compromise measures of 1850 were before Congress and the ...
Page 52
... claim that it should be conducted solely for the res- toration of the Union . The declarations of the Democratic party assumed as an historical fact that the Union was a union between Free States and Slave States rather than a union ...
... claim that it should be conducted solely for the res- toration of the Union . The declarations of the Democratic party assumed as an historical fact that the Union was a union between Free States and Slave States rather than a union ...
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