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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... give visible tokens of their joy at the fall of Detroit . The " beacon fires " of their hills were lighted up , not for the encouragement of their friends , but as signals to the enemy ; and in the gloomy hours of midnight the very ...
... give visible tokens of their joy at the fall of Detroit . The " beacon fires " of their hills were lighted up , not for the encouragement of their friends , but as signals to the enemy ; and in the gloomy hours of midnight the very ...
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... gives me strength , I will drive back the invader , discomfited . Nor shall I stop there . If the gentleman provokes the war , he shall have war . Sir , I will not stop at the border ; I will carry the war into the enemy's territory ...
... gives me strength , I will drive back the invader , discomfited . Nor shall I stop there . If the gentleman provokes the war , he shall have war . Sir , I will not stop at the border ; I will carry the war into the enemy's territory ...
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... gives them the right to say to the people : " We , who are your agents and servants for one purpose , will undertake to decide that your other agents and servants , appointed by you for another purpose , have transcended the authority ...
... gives them the right to say to the people : " We , who are your agents and servants for one purpose , will undertake to decide that your other agents and servants , appointed by you for another purpose , have transcended the authority ...
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... give a new construction on every new election of its own members ? Would anything with such a principle in it , or rather with such a destitution of all principle , be fit to be called a government ? No , sir . It should not be ...
... give a new construction on every new election of its own members ? Would anything with such a principle in it , or rather with such a destitution of all principle , be fit to be called a government ? No , sir . It should not be ...
Page 62
... give any other answer . John Fries , he would tell them , had learned that some years ago . How , then , they would ask , do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets ; but treason has a way of taking people off that we do ...
... give any other answer . John Fries , he would tell them , had learned that some years ago . How , then , they would ask , do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets ; but treason has a way of taking people off that we do ...
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