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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... North " respond to the challenge of the " Achilles of the South " -the popular epithets describing the con- testants were more appropriate taken singly than in mutual relation - and early next morning crowds poured into the capitol ...
... North " respond to the challenge of the " Achilles of the South " -the popular epithets describing the con- testants were more appropriate taken singly than in mutual relation - and early next morning crowds poured into the capitol ...
Page 40
... its original character and become a general controversy between the North and the South , represented in the particular States of Massachusetts and South Carolina , on the questions of nullification 40 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
... its original character and become a general controversy between the North and the South , represented in the particular States of Massachusetts and South Carolina , on the questions of nullification 40 GREAT AMERICAN DEBATES.
Page 74
... North ! when the Hartford convention was in session ! when the language in the capitol was : " Peaceably if we can ; forcibly if we must ! " when the cry , out of doors , was : " The Potomac the boundary ; the negro States by themselves ...
... North ! when the Hartford convention was in session ! when the language in the capitol was : " Peaceably if we can ; forcibly if we must ! " when the cry , out of doors , was : " The Potomac the boundary ; the negro States by themselves ...
Page 103
... north of this river , and that all south of it would be held as subjected provinces , to be controlled for the exclusive benefit of the stronger section . Such a state of things could not endure ; and the Constitution and liberty of the ...
... north of this river , and that all south of it would be held as subjected provinces , to be controlled for the exclusive benefit of the stronger section . Such a state of things could not endure ; and the Constitution and liberty of the ...
Page 104
... North as in the South ; that those who maintained the doctrines of '98 , and the sovereignties of the State ; that the Republican party throughout the country would rally against this attempt to establish , by law , doctrines which must ...
... North as in the South ; that those who maintained the doctrines of '98 , and the sovereignties of the State ; that the Republican party throughout the country would rally against this attempt to establish , by law , doctrines which must ...
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