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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... hand , as a possible means of evil . They cherish no deep and fixed regard for it , flowing from a thorough conviction of its absolute and vital necessity to our welfare . Sir , I deprecate and deplore this tone of thinking and acting ...
... hand , as a possible means of evil . They cherish no deep and fixed regard for it , flowing from a thorough conviction of its absolute and vital necessity to our welfare . Sir , I deprecate and deplore this tone of thinking and acting ...
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... hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington , and felt his own great arm lean on them for support . Unkind feel- ing , if it exist , alienation and distrust , are the growth , un- natural to such soils , of false ...
... hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington , and felt his own great arm lean on them for support . Unkind feel- ing , if it exist , alienation and distrust , are the growth , un- natural to such soils , of false ...
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... hands of those who are chosen and sworn to administer it , by the direct interference , in form of law , of the States , in virtue of their sovereign capacity . The inherent right in the people to reform their Government I do not deny ...
... hands of those who are chosen and sworn to administer it , by the direct interference , in form of law , of the States , in virtue of their sovereign capacity . The inherent right in the people to reform their Government I do not deny ...
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... hand , and open resistance , which is revolution , or rebellion , on the other . I say the right of a State to annul a law of Congress cannot be maintained but on the ground of the inalienable right of man to resist oppression ; that is ...
... hand , and open resistance , which is revolution , or rebellion , on the other . I say the right of a State to annul a law of Congress cannot be maintained but on the ground of the inalienable right of man to resist oppression ; that is ...
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... hand South Carolina herself had in that of 1816. But , sir , the collector would , probably , not de- sist at his bidding . Here would ensue a pause : for they say that a certain stillness precedes the tempest . Before this mili- tary ...
... hand South Carolina herself had in that of 1816. But , sir , the collector would , probably , not de- sist at his bidding . Here would ensue a pause : for they say that a certain stillness precedes the tempest . Before this mili- tary ...
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