Modern Eloquence, Volume 12Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1903 |
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Page 459
... honor and safety , in the Union . The next question , then , to be considered is , What has caused this belief ? One of the causes is , undoubtedly , to be traced to the long - continued agitation of the slave question on the part of ...
... honor and safety , in the Union . The next question , then , to be considered is , What has caused this belief ? One of the causes is , undoubtedly , to be traced to the long - continued agitation of the slave question on the part of ...
Page 472
... honor and their safety . There is , again , only one way by which that can be effected , and that is , by re- viewing the causes by which this belief has been produced . Do that , and discontent will cease , harmony and kind feel- ings ...
... honor and their safety . There is , again , only one way by which that can be effected , and that is , by re- viewing the causes by which this belief has been produced . Do that , and discontent will cease , harmony and kind feel- ings ...
Page 475
... honor remain in the Union . It is , in fact , but a modification of the Wilmot proviso . It proposes to effect the same object - to exclude the South from all the territory acquired by the Mexican treaty . It is well known that the ...
... honor remain in the Union . It is , in fact , but a modification of the Wilmot proviso . It proposes to effect the same object - to exclude the South from all the territory acquired by the Mexican treaty . It is well known that the ...
Page 496
... honor to elect me ; in spite of that warning , I venture to meet you here again . It must be fairly confessed that this is not the season of the year to estimate correctly the amount of superfluous and unprofit- able vegetation with ...
... honor to elect me ; in spite of that warning , I venture to meet you here again . It must be fairly confessed that this is not the season of the year to estimate correctly the amount of superfluous and unprofit- able vegetation with ...
Page 498
... honor and our happiness were involved . Gentlemen , during the course of a political life , nearly coeval with the commencement of the war , I have never given one vote , I have never uttered one sentiment , which had not for its object ...
... honor and our happiness were involved . Gentlemen , during the course of a political life , nearly coeval with the commencement of the war , I have never given one vote , I have never uttered one sentiment , which had not for its object ...
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