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... SENATE 150 163 XXIII REPORT ON JOHN BROWN RAID AT HARPER'S FERRY , VIRGINIA XXIV PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 1860 - STATE CONVEN- TION OF 1861 - MR . STUART ONE OF THE COMMITTEE OF THREE APPOINTED TO VISIT PRESIDENT LINCOLN .. • XXV ...
... SENATE 150 163 XXIII REPORT ON JOHN BROWN RAID AT HARPER'S FERRY , VIRGINIA XXIV PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN 1860 - STATE CONVEN- TION OF 1861 - MR . STUART ONE OF THE COMMITTEE OF THREE APPOINTED TO VISIT PRESIDENT LINCOLN .. • XXV ...
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... Senate Committee of Congress on the same subject , signed by James M. Mason , Jefferson Davis and G. N. Fitch , which has been pronounced by Brown's bi- ographer , Villard , " disappointingly ineffective from the slavery point of view ...
... Senate Committee of Congress on the same subject , signed by James M. Mason , Jefferson Davis and G. N. Fitch , which has been pronounced by Brown's bi- ographer , Villard , " disappointingly ineffective from the slavery point of view ...
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... Senate of Virginia . While a member of that body he was elected judge of the General Court , and on January 1 , 1800 , entered upon the duties of his office , which he con- tinued to discharge until 1831 , when , having attained the age ...
... Senate of Virginia . While a member of that body he was elected judge of the General Court , and on January 1 , 1800 , entered upon the duties of his office , which he con- tinued to discharge until 1831 , when , having attained the age ...
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... Senate by a vote of 26 to 24 . The President vetoed the bill on August 16th , and , fail- ing to receive the necessary vote to pass it over the veto , it was defeated . The Whigs were filled with disappoint- ment at this act of the ...
... Senate by a vote of 26 to 24 . The President vetoed the bill on August 16th , and , fail- ing to receive the necessary vote to pass it over the veto , it was defeated . The Whigs were filled with disappoint- ment at this act of the ...
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... Senate . On March 31 , 1842 , Mr. Clay resigned his seat in that body . It was known that he was to take leave of the senate on that day and the galleries were filled with spectators eager to hear him . His address , delivered in his ...
... Senate . On March 31 , 1842 , Mr. Clay resigned his seat in that body . It was known that he was to take leave of the senate on that day and the galleries were filled with spectators eager to hear him . His address , delivered in his ...
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Page 464 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 449 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 396 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
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Page 76 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject...
Page 396 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
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Page 82 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.