Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... house , " on his head be the consequences . The gentleman has made a great flourish about his fidelity to Massachusetts . I shall make no professions of zeal for the interests and honor of South Carolina - of that my constituents shall ...
... house , " on his head be the consequences . The gentleman has made a great flourish about his fidelity to Massachusetts . I shall make no professions of zeal for the interests and honor of South Carolina - of that my constituents shall ...
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... House , said : " This opposition is constitutional and legal ; it is also conscientious . It rests on settled and sober conviction that such policy is destructive to the interests of the people and dangerous to the being of the ...
... House , said : " This opposition is constitutional and legal ; it is also conscientious . It rests on settled and sober conviction that such policy is destructive to the interests of the people and dangerous to the being of the ...
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... House of Representatives - is a popular Government . It leaves it still all its popular character . The governor of a State ( in some of the States ) is chosen , not directly by the people , but by those who are chosen by the people for ...
... House of Representatives - is a popular Government . It leaves it still all its popular character . The governor of a State ( in some of the States ) is chosen , not directly by the people , but by those who are chosen by the people for ...
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... house in Charleston : " All the while , " Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds . ' ' Arrived at the custom - house , he will tell the collector that he must collect no more duties under any of the tariff laws . This he will be somewhat ...
... house in Charleston : " All the while , " Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds . ' ' Arrived at the custom - house , he will tell the collector that he must collect no more duties under any of the tariff laws . This he will be somewhat ...
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... Houses and Congress should , from any motive , be induced , deliberately , to exercise " powers not granted , " what prospect would there be of " arresting the progress of the evil , " by a vote of three - fourths ? But the Con ...
... Houses and Congress should , from any motive , be induced , deliberately , to exercise " powers not granted , " what prospect would there be of " arresting the progress of the evil , " by a vote of three - fourths ? But the Con ...
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