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... question , at least for the time , by even - handed justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in Broderick a ...
... question , at least for the time , by even - handed justice to the people of Kansas . California had been a secession rendez- vous from the day it became a part of the Union , but the Southern leaders there soon found in Broderick a ...
Page 37
... questions to David Reese and John Chauncey , the two officers of the House who in his last days used to carry him in a large arm - chair from his lodgings across the public grounds up the broad stairs of the noble Capitol- " Who will be ...
... questions to David Reese and John Chauncey , the two officers of the House who in his last days used to carry him in a large arm - chair from his lodgings across the public grounds up the broad stairs of the noble Capitol- " Who will be ...
Page 45
... question of men or of money in that sense . All the money , all the men , are , in our judgment , well bestowed in such a cause . When we give them we know their value . - Knowing their value well , we give them with SENATOR E. D. BAKER ...
... question of men or of money in that sense . All the money , all the men , are , in our judgment , well bestowed in such a cause . When we give them we know their value . - Knowing their value well , we give them with SENATOR E. D. BAKER ...
Page 51
... question as satisfactorily as the distinguished gen- tleman from Massachusetts did in 1819 , but I will say that I think I am safe in adopting the sentiment which he then ex- pressed , that our title to the Rio del Norte is as clear as ...
... question as satisfactorily as the distinguished gen- tleman from Massachusetts did in 1819 , but I will say that I think I am safe in adopting the sentiment which he then ex- pressed , that our title to the Rio del Norte is as clear as ...
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... question the justice of every sort of conversion . Slavery has been the most potent element ; but other causes have been effective . The free - trade speech of Daniel Webster in 1824 , able as it was , was not a particle more ...
... question the justice of every sort of conversion . Slavery has been the most potent element ; but other causes have been effective . The free - trade speech of Daniel Webster in 1824 , able as it was , was not a particle more ...
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