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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... sentiment in his bosom that would not be disposed , in the language of Burke , to exclaim : " You must pardon something to the spirit of liberty ! " SENATOR WEBSTER said : In carrying his warfare , such as it was , into New England ...
... sentiment in his bosom that would not be disposed , in the language of Burke , to exclaim : " You must pardon something to the spirit of liberty ! " SENATOR WEBSTER said : In carrying his warfare , such as it was , into New England ...
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... sentiment or any opinion of a supposed anti - union tendency which on all or any of the recent occasions has been expressed . The whole drift of his speech has been rather to prove that , in divers times and manners , sentiments equally ...
... sentiment or any opinion of a supposed anti - union tendency which on all or any of the recent occasions has been expressed . The whole drift of his speech has been rather to prove that , in divers times and manners , sentiments equally ...
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... sentiment to which I have referred propounds that State sovereignty is to be con- trolled only by its own " feeling of justice " ; that is to say , that it is not to be controlled at all : for one who is to follow his own feelings is ...
... sentiment to which I have referred propounds that State sovereignty is to be con- trolled only by its own " feeling of justice " ; that is to say , that it is not to be controlled at all : for one who is to follow his own feelings is ...
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... sentiments , and their circulation through the State , otherwise than by supposing the object to be , what I have already intimated , to raise the question , if they had no " collision " ( mark the expression ) with the minis- ters of ...
... sentiments , and their circulation through the State , otherwise than by supposing the object to be , what I have already intimated , to raise the question , if they had no " collision " ( mark the expression ) with the minis- ters of ...
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... sentiment ever escaped his lips . Let us follow up , sir , this New England opposition to the embargo laws ; let us ... sentiments of the legislature . It met no favor . The opinions of Massachusetts were otherwise . They had been ...
... sentiment ever escaped his lips . Let us follow up , sir , this New England opposition to the embargo laws ; let us ... sentiments of the legislature . It met no favor . The opinions of Massachusetts were otherwise . They had been ...
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