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... Kentucky is mistaken in them all . Five hundred million dol- lars ! What then ? Great Britain gave more than two thou- sand millions in the great battle for constitutional liberty which she led at one time , almost single - handed ...
... Kentucky is mistaken in them all . Five hundred million dol- lars ! What then ? Great Britain gave more than two thou- sand millions in the great battle for constitutional liberty which she led at one time , almost single - handed ...
Page 46
... Kentucky upon this floor ? No , sir ! a thousand times , no , sir ! We will rally - if , indeed , our words be necessary - we will rally the people , the loyal people of the whole country . They will pour forth their treasure , their ...
... Kentucky upon this floor ? No , sir ! a thousand times , no , sir ! We will rally - if , indeed , our words be necessary - we will rally the people , the loyal people of the whole country . They will pour forth their treasure , their ...
Page 47
... Kentucky , on the 13th of October last , at a meeting called to do honor to the memory of Robert E. Lee , the Con- federate military leader . It was a meeting of men of all parties , and he said : " If the spirit which animates the ...
... Kentucky , on the 13th of October last , at a meeting called to do honor to the memory of Robert E. Lee , the Con- federate military leader . It was a meeting of men of all parties , and he said : " If the spirit which animates the ...
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... Kentucky , Cave Johnson , of Tennessee , S. F. Vinton and Joshua Giddings , of Ohio , all gathered to their fathers . And there also were many yet living , like Andrew Johnson , of Ten- nessee , Stevens and Toombs , of Georgia - these ...
... Kentucky , Cave Johnson , of Tennessee , S. F. Vinton and Joshua Giddings , of Ohio , all gathered to their fathers . And there also were many yet living , like Andrew Johnson , of Ten- nessee , Stevens and Toombs , of Georgia - these ...
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... Kentucky . They could not so readily forget their devotion to Clay and their hatred of Jackson . The sectionalism born of slavery also gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions . Hundreds of thousands of ...
... Kentucky . They could not so readily forget their devotion to Clay and their hatred of Jackson . The sectionalism born of slavery also gave rise to war , and then came some of the strangest of revolutions . Hundreds of thousands of ...
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