Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders from Early Greece to the Present Time, Volume 16P. F. Collier & Son, 1905 |
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Page 6567
... less dark and mys- terious than they did when they were transpiring . The people were to be left " perfectly free , " " subject only to the Constitution . " What the Constitution had to do with it , outsiders could not then see ...
... less dark and mys- terious than they did when they were transpiring . The people were to be left " perfectly free , " " subject only to the Constitution . " What the Constitution had to do with it , outsiders could not then see ...
Page 6570
... less one . How can he oppose the advances of slavery ? He doesn't care anything about it . His avowed mission is im- pressing the " public heart " to care nothing about it . A leading Douglas Democratic newspaper thinks Douglas's ...
... less one . How can he oppose the advances of slavery ? He doesn't care anything about it . His avowed mission is im- pressing the " public heart " to care nothing about it . A leading Douglas Democratic newspaper thinks Douglas's ...
Page 6571
... less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest ? And unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia . He has done all in his power to reduce the whole question of slavery to one of a mere right ...
... less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest ? And unquestionably they can be bought cheaper in Africa than in Virginia . He has done all in his power to reduce the whole question of slavery to one of a mere right ...
Page 6576
... less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may vio- late it - break it , so to speak ; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? Descending from these general principles , we find the proposition that ...
... less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may vio- late it - break it , so to speak ; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it ? Descending from these general principles , we find the proposition that ...
Page 6584
... less occasion for an ex- tended address than there was at first . Then a statement , somewhat in detail , of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper . Now , at the expiration of four years , during which public ...
... less occasion for an ex- tended address than there was at first . Then a statement , somewhat in detail , of a course to be pursued seemed very fitting and proper . Now , at the expiration of four years , during which public ...
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