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In the discussions to which this interest has given rise , and in the arrangements by which they may terminate , the occasion has been judged proper for asserting , as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States ...
In the discussions to which this interest has given rise , and in the arrangements by which they may terminate , the occasion has been judged proper for asserting , as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States ...
Page 99
All knew that this interest was , somehow , the cause of the war . To strengthen , perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union , even by war ; while the government claimed no right to ...
All knew that this interest was , somehow , the cause of the war . To strengthen , perpetuate and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union , even by war ; while the government claimed no right to ...
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... their constant effort to accommodate the interests they represented to the principles we were all agreed upon . ... peace as an indivisible whole , a problem , not of mere adjustments of interest , but of justice and right action .
... their constant effort to accommodate the interests they represented to the principles we were all agreed upon . ... peace as an indivisible whole , a problem , not of mere adjustments of interest , but of justice and right action .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | 12 Americans Speak |
| Editor | John Edwin Pomfret |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Huntington Library, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Sep 2007 |
| Length | 183 pages |
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