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... whole country ; they are our sons — our kinsmen , and there are many of us who will give them all up before we will abate one word of our just demand , or will retreat one inch from the line which divides right from wrong . " Sir , it ...
... whole country ; they are our sons — our kinsmen , and there are many of us who will give them all up before we will abate one word of our just demand , or will retreat one inch from the line which divides right from wrong . " Sir , it ...
Page 46
... whole country . They will pour forth their treasure , their money , their men , without stint , without measure . The most peaceable man in this body may stamp his foot upon this Senate - chamber floor , as of old a warrior and a ...
... whole country . They will pour forth their treasure , their money , their men , without stint , without measure . The most peaceable man in this body may stamp his foot upon this Senate - chamber floor , as of old a warrior and a ...
Page 47
... whole country , then indeed may we say that the wounds of the late war are truly healed . We ask only for him what we concede to the manly qualities of others . Among the more eminent of the Federal generals who fell during the war , or ...
... whole country , then indeed may we say that the wounds of the late war are truly healed . We ask only for him what we concede to the manly qualities of others . Among the more eminent of the Federal generals who fell during the war , or ...
Page 49
... whole number now in their graves ; Thomas H. Bayley and George C. Dromgoole , of Virginia , both since dead . There also were McKay , of North Carolina , Linn Boyd , of Kentucky , Cave Johnson , of Tennessee , S. F. Vinton and Joshua ...
... whole number now in their graves ; Thomas H. Bayley and George C. Dromgoole , of Virginia , both since dead . There also were McKay , of North Carolina , Linn Boyd , of Kentucky , Cave Johnson , of Tennessee , S. F. Vinton and Joshua ...
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... whole emphasis on the qualification that he did not claim that river as the boundary ' from its mouth to its source , ' I shall not dis- pute with him on that point . But if he wishes to be understood as denying that he ever claimed the ...
... whole emphasis on the qualification that he did not claim that river as the boundary ' from its mouth to its source , ' I shall not dis- pute with him on that point . But if he wishes to be understood as denying that he ever claimed the ...
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