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I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement . Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the ...
I do not consider it necessary at present for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety or excitement . Apprehension seems to exist among the people of the Southern States that by the ...
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His duty is to administer the present Government , as it came to his hands , and to transmit it , unimpaired by him , to his successor . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ?
His duty is to administer the present Government , as it came to his hands , and to transmit it , unimpaired by him , to his successor . Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people ?
Page 118
... for those with most sense of international obligations and with keenest and most generous appreciation of the difference between right and wrong , to disarm . If the great civilized nations of the present day should completely ...
... for those with most sense of international obligations and with keenest and most generous appreciation of the difference between right and wrong , to disarm . If the great civilized nations of the present day should completely ...
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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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