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... political and constitutional development , as in this the life of a people who govern themselves is epitomized . In my treatment of wars and disputes with foreign powers , I am aware that , with all my effort to view a subject from a ...
... political and constitutional development , as in this the life of a people who govern themselves is epitomized . In my treatment of wars and disputes with foreign powers , I am aware that , with all my effort to view a subject from a ...
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... POLITICAL DUEL BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH PRECEDING THE CIVIL WAR The Presidential Election of 1852 Death of Clay and Webster . Fall of the Whig Party The Kansas - Nebraska Bill Founding of the Republican Party Presidential ...
... POLITICAL DUEL BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH PRECEDING THE CIVIL WAR The Presidential Election of 1852 Death of Clay and Webster . Fall of the Whig Party The Kansas - Nebraska Bill Founding of the Republican Party Presidential ...
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... Political Reaction 832 The Centennial 834 The Disputed Presidential Election 835 CHAPTER XXXIII INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS New Conditions . 843 The Fisheries Dispute . 847 The Garfield Tragedy . 849 Civil Service Reform A Political Revolution ...
... Political Reaction 832 The Centennial 834 The Disputed Presidential Election 835 CHAPTER XXXIII INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS New Conditions . 843 The Fisheries Dispute . 847 The Garfield Tragedy . 849 Civil Service Reform A Political Revolution ...
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... political , the military , or the industrial world . Among the greatest of our statesmen , our com- manders of armies , our captains of industry , the great majority have risen from the commonest walks of life ; and who can write ...
... political , the military , or the industrial world . Among the greatest of our statesmen , our com- manders of armies , our captains of industry , the great majority have risen from the commonest walks of life ; and who can write ...
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... political bondage. Now are laid the foundations of a mighty nation, and the people grapple with the greatest problem of all, — the problem of self-government. The new nation has a thorny road for many years, but it toils upward ...
... political bondage. Now are laid the foundations of a mighty nation, and the people grapple with the greatest problem of all, — the problem of self-government. The new nation has a thorny road for many years, but it toils upward ...
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Page 317 - Filling a glass, he turned to them and said, "with a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you ; I most devoutly wish that your latter days may be as prosperous and happy, as your former ones have been glorious and honorable.
Page 381 - If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained ? Those by death are few ; by resignation none.
Page 640 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 659 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 75 - I thank God there are no free schools, nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years ; for learning has brought disobedience and heresy and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both...
Page 702 - Orleans, in return for the most scrupulous non-interference and courtesy on our part, it is ordered that hereafter when any female shall, by word, gesture, or movement, insult or show contempt for any officer or soldier of the United States, she shall be regarded and held liable to be treated as a woman of the town plying her avocation.
Page 75 - The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children.
Page 241 - Colonies ? No man ever doubted that the commodity of Tea could bear an imposition of three-pence. But no commodity will bear three-pence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay.
Page 153 - ... the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Page 661 - ... this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.