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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... Union in terms of indifference or even of disparagement . The honorable member himself is not , I trust , and can never be , one of these . They significantly declare that it is time to calculate the value of the Union ; and their aim ...
... Union in terms of indifference or even of disparagement . The honorable member himself is not , I trust , and can never be , one of these . They significantly declare that it is time to calculate the value of the Union ; and their aim ...
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... Union a rope of sand ? Are we not thrown back again precisely upon the old confed- eration ? It is too plain to be argued . Four and twenty interpreters of constitutional law , each with a power to decide for itself , and none with ...
... Union a rope of sand ? Are we not thrown back again precisely upon the old confed- eration ? It is too plain to be argued . Four and twenty interpreters of constitutional law , each with a power to decide for itself , and none with ...
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... Union . The fate of that petition shows the sentiments of the legislature . It met no favor . The opinions of Massachusetts were otherwise . They had been expressed in 1798 , in answer to the resolutions of Virginia , and she did not ...
... Union . The fate of that petition shows the sentiments of the legislature . It met no favor . The opinions of Massachusetts were otherwise . They had been expressed in 1798 , in answer to the resolutions of Virginia , and she did not ...
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... Union . It is to that Union we owe our safety at home , and our consideration and dignity abroad . It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country . That Union we reached only by the ...
... Union . It is to that Union we owe our safety at home , and our consideration and dignity abroad . It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country . That Union we reached only by the ...
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... Union should be best preserved , but how tol- erable might be the condition of the people , when it shall be broken up and destroyed . While the Union lasts , we have high , exciting , gratifying prospects spread out before us for us ...
... Union should be best preserved , but how tol- erable might be the condition of the people , when it shall be broken up and destroyed . While the Union lasts , we have high , exciting , gratifying prospects spread out before us for us ...
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