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... Halifax to any place worth going to . The nearest place of any interest is Boston , in the United States , and the most direct way of escape thither from Halifax is by steamer or sailing - packet , a voyage of nearly two days in the ...
... Halifax to any place worth going to . The nearest place of any interest is Boston , in the United States , and the most direct way of escape thither from Halifax is by steamer or sailing - packet , a voyage of nearly two days in the ...
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... Halifax to the United States , nor even to Canada . Railways in Nova Scotia have been adapted , not so much to the wants of the coun- try as to the purpose of securing influence and votes for a political party . There is little traffic ...
... Halifax to the United States , nor even to Canada . Railways in Nova Scotia have been adapted , not so much to the wants of the coun- try as to the purpose of securing influence and votes for a political party . There is little traffic ...
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... Halifax and Canada , or the United States , must be subjected to a tedious and dangerous voyage , and the Canadian visiting Europe , during six months of the year , must pass through a foreign country , and embark and disembark at a ...
... Halifax and Canada , or the United States , must be subjected to a tedious and dangerous voyage , and the Canadian visiting Europe , during six months of the year , must pass through a foreign country , and embark and disembark at a ...
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... Halifax to Canada and the United States , have not been accomplished yet . The colonies seem to have exhausted themselves on lines of but secondary importance , fifty years in advance of trade and population , and to be waiting for ...
... Halifax to Canada and the United States , have not been accomplished yet . The colonies seem to have exhausted themselves on lines of but secondary importance , fifty years in advance of trade and population , and to be waiting for ...
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... Halifax the country is rocky and barren , everywhere the ground is covered with huge stones , masses of granite , or of the metamorphic sandstone , which extends along the whole At- lantic coast of Nova Scotia . Although it was the ...
... Halifax the country is rocky and barren , everywhere the ground is covered with huge stones , masses of granite , or of the metamorphic sandstone , which extends along the whole At- lantic coast of Nova Scotia . Although it was the ...
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Page 106 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 211 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 145 - No member shall speak more than once to the same question without leave of the House, unless he be the mover, proposer, or introducer of the matter pending, in which case he shall be permitted to speak in reply, but not until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Page 145 - No member shall occupy more than one hour in debate on any question in the House, or in committee: but a member reporting the measure under consideration from a committee may open and close the debate...
Page 175 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 146 - Whilst the Speaker is putting any question, or addressing the House, none shall walk out of, or across the House ; nor in such case, or when a member is speaking, shall entertain private discourse ; nor, whilst a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the Chair.
Page 103 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. 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.
Page 179 - They have fallen into the common error of enthusiasts, that of taking too narrow views, of feeling as if no evil existed but that which they opposed, and as if no guilt could be compared with that of countenancing or upholding it.
Page 31 - ... such information and references as may be useful in judging of the propriety of renewing his application, or of altering his specification to embrace only that part of the invention or discovery which is new.