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Page 1
... becoming a mere Government of the majority - becoming a great consolidated democ- racy . Now , sir , if by this it be meant that this Gov- ernment of ours has become , or is to become , the Government of the American people ...
... becoming a mere Government of the majority - becoming a great consolidated democ- racy . Now , sir , if by this it be meant that this Gov- ernment of ours has become , or is to become , the Government of the American people ...
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... become dangerous by being met with resistance instead of argument . I have said , sir , that the Southern gentlemen ... become like Tadmor , their hills like Gilboa , their fields like the Campagna , and themselves without prosperity ...
... become dangerous by being met with resistance instead of argument . I have said , sir , that the Southern gentlemen ... become like Tadmor , their hills like Gilboa , their fields like the Campagna , and themselves without prosperity ...
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... become so great as to enable that class of States to dictate the whole policy of the Gov- ernment ; and in case of constitutional resis- tance , then to form a new slaveholding con- federacy around the Gulf of Mexico . By this time the ...
... become so great as to enable that class of States to dictate the whole policy of the Gov- ernment ; and in case of constitutional resis- tance , then to form a new slaveholding con- federacy around the Gulf of Mexico . By this time the ...
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