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... hold their tongues , and starve , in order to enable the Secretary to try his experiment ? Are they to be the willing victims of such fantas- tical and arrogant schemes ? No , Sir ; that is not their notion of patriotism and duty . They ...
... hold their tongues , and starve , in order to enable the Secretary to try his experiment ? Are they to be the willing victims of such fantas- tical and arrogant schemes ? No , Sir ; that is not their notion of patriotism and duty . They ...
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... hold the former of these two propositions , and they mean to prove it . -- Mr. President , this measure of the Secretary has produced a degree of evil that cannot be borne . Talk about it as we will , it cannot be borne . A tottering ...
... hold the former of these two propositions , and they mean to prove it . -- Mr. President , this measure of the Secretary has produced a degree of evil that cannot be borne . Talk about it as we will , it cannot be borne . A tottering ...
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... right to say , " I am an American citizen ; I possess the elec- tive franchise ; I hold the right of suffrage ; I possess and I exercise an individual share in the sovereign power of the THE REMOVAL OF THE DEPOSITS . 15.
... right to say , " I am an American citizen ; I possess the elec- tive franchise ; I hold the right of suffrage ; I possess and I exercise an individual share in the sovereign power of the THE REMOVAL OF THE DEPOSITS . 15.
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... hold every one in the precise attitude in which he should be found when the charm begins ; as painters , though they cannot represent progressive action on the canvas , can yet represent action suddenly arrest- ed ; or as the interior ...
... hold every one in the precise attitude in which he should be found when the charm begins ; as painters , though they cannot represent progressive action on the canvas , can yet represent action suddenly arrest- ed ; or as the interior ...
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... hold of the public treasures , disregarded the votes of Congress , and thrown the whole country into a state of violent excitement , out of pure sympathy for the poor , and to protect them against the grinding power of moneyed ...
... hold of the public treasures , disregarded the votes of Congress , and thrown the whole country into a state of violent excitement , out of pure sympathy for the poor , and to protect them against the grinding power of moneyed ...
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Страница 341 - Resolved, That the intermeddling of any State, or States, or their citizens, to abolish slavery in this District, or any of the Territories, on the ground, or under the pretext, that it is immoral or sinful, or the passage of any act or measure of Congress with that view, would be a direct and dangerous attack on the institutions of all the slave-holding States.
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Страница 47 - God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it.