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... never before seen ; the mutually beneficial intercourse between its different sections and climates , each supplying what the other wants ; the rapidity with which the arts of civilization have been extended over a before unsettled ...
... never before seen ; the mutually beneficial intercourse between its different sections and climates , each supplying what the other wants ; the rapidity with which the arts of civilization have been extended over a before unsettled ...
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... never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed the Declaration of Independence . The several states are not even mentioned by name in any part of it , and it was intended to impress this maxim on America , that our ...
... never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed the Declaration of Independence . The several states are not even mentioned by name in any part of it , and it was intended to impress this maxim on America , that our ...
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... never benefit us , and may bring on us the most serious distresses . " ( Elliott's Debates , IV . , p . 301. ) These are the solemn and prophetic words of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , the patriot , the soldier , the statesman ; the ...
... never benefit us , and may bring on us the most serious distresses . " ( Elliott's Debates , IV . , p . 301. ) These are the solemn and prophetic words of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney , the patriot , the soldier , the statesman ; the ...
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... never will be money in the treasury , till the Confeder- acy shows its teeth . The states must see the rod , perhaps it must be felt by some of them . Every rational citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion , and ...
... never will be money in the treasury , till the Confeder- acy shows its teeth . The states must see the rod , perhaps it must be felt by some of them . Every rational citizen must wish to see an effective instrument of coercion , and ...
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... never occur- red even to his fervid imagination , that , because Ireland was an independ- ent government when she entered into the union , it was competent for her at her discretion to secede from it . What would our English friends who ...
... never occur- red even to his fervid imagination , that , because Ireland was an independ- ent government when she entered into the union , it was competent for her at her discretion to secede from it . What would our English friends who ...
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