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Strana 97
... Union . This then is the result of the history of slavery . It began as a tolerated , it ends as an aggressive institution ; and if it now threatens to dissolve the Union , it is not because it has any- thing to fear for that which it ...
... Union . This then is the result of the history of slavery . It began as a tolerated , it ends as an aggressive institution ; and if it now threatens to dissolve the Union , it is not because it has any- thing to fear for that which it ...
Strana 113
... Union shall be perpetual , " nor could any alteration in the Articles be made unless agreed to in Congress and " afterwards con- firmed by the legislature of every State . " Can anybody discover in all this standing room for secession ...
... Union shall be perpetual , " nor could any alteration in the Articles be made unless agreed to in Congress and " afterwards con- firmed by the legislature of every State . " Can anybody discover in all this standing room for secession ...
Strana 115
... Union nor the former one . It never had an existence under any American sys- tem ; and it would be no system under which it had an exis- tence . Gen. James S. Wheat , in a speech in front of the old court house at Wheeling , one ...
... Union nor the former one . It never had an existence under any American sys- tem ; and it would be no system under which it had an exis- tence . Gen. James S. Wheat , in a speech in front of the old court house at Wheeling , one ...
Strana 118
... union of independent republics , into “ a more perfect Union . " Their experience under the Confedera- tion showed that their political existence demanded a gov- ernment with one supreme , unquestioned authority . Gouv- erneur Morris ...
... union of independent republics , into “ a more perfect Union . " Their experience under the Confedera- tion showed that their political existence demanded a gov- ernment with one supreme , unquestioned authority . Gouv- erneur Morris ...
Strana 118
... Union was already dissolved , and that the North was to blame for it . Then it undertook to state the conditions on which the dissolution of the Union might be prevented . right of nullification and the conception of the State ex- 119 V ...
... Union was already dissolved , and that the North was to blame for it . Then it undertook to state the conditions on which the dissolution of the Union might be prevented . right of nullification and the conception of the State ex- 119 V ...
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