The American IdealLongmans, Green and Company, 1936 - 275 pages |
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Page 74
... hold it to be the paramount duty of us in the free States , due to the Union of the States , and perhaps to liberty itself ( paradox though it may seem ) , to let the slavery of the other States alone ; while , on the other hand , I hold ...
... hold it to be the paramount duty of us in the free States , due to the Union of the States , and perhaps to liberty itself ( paradox though it may seem ) , to let the slavery of the other States alone ; while , on the other hand , I hold ...
Page 77
... hold in the West but was not committed to the Southern politicians like the popular and predomi- nant Democratic Party . He thus became a natural leader in the new Republican Party , which after the passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Bill ...
... hold in the West but was not committed to the Southern politicians like the popular and predomi- nant Democratic Party . He thus became a natural leader in the new Republican Party , which after the passage of the Kansas - Nebraska Bill ...
Page 178
... hold on a young , arrogant people first finding their feet in the world . All this was accomplished by Roosevelt when he was Presi- dent , not in his own right , but in that of the dead McKinley's . But when the Presidential Election of ...
... hold on a young , arrogant people first finding their feet in the world . All this was accomplished by Roosevelt when he was Presi- dent , not in his own right , but in that of the dead McKinley's . But when the Presidential Election of ...
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