Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3Perkins & Marvin, 1843 |
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... believe some twelve or twenty houses were all that Bangor could enumerate , when I was in it before ; and I remember to have crossed the stream , which now divides your fair city , on some floating logs , VOL . III . 3 17 B * for the ...
... believe some twelve or twenty houses were all that Bangor could enumerate , when I was in it before ; and I remember to have crossed the stream , which now divides your fair city , on some floating logs , VOL . III . 3 17 B * for the ...
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... has yet done it justice ? For one , I am not sanguine enough to believe , that if this bond of Union were dissolved , any other tie , uniting all the States , would take its place for generations to come . It requires no common skill 19.
... has yet done it justice ? For one , I am not sanguine enough to believe , that if this bond of Union were dissolved , any other tie , uniting all the States , would take its place for generations to come . It requires no common skill 19.
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... believe that judgment has been definitely pronounced ; but nothing is due to me , beyond the merit of having made an earnest effort to present the true question to the people , and to invoke for it that attention from them , which its ...
... believe that judgment has been definitely pronounced ; but nothing is due to me , beyond the merit of having made an earnest effort to present the true question to the people , and to invoke for it that attention from them , which its ...
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... believe the government is , and will be , in serious danger , till some check is placed on that power . To combine and consolidate a great party by the influence of personal hopes , to govern by the patronage of office , to exercise the ...
... believe the government is , and will be , in serious danger , till some check is placed on that power . To combine and consolidate a great party by the influence of personal hopes , to govern by the patronage of office , to exercise the ...
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... believe , that in all these respects , a reform , a real , honest reform , is decidedly necessary to the security of the Constitution ; and while I continue in public life , I shall not halt in my endeavors to produce it . It is time to ...
... believe , that in all these respects , a reform , a real , honest reform , is decidedly necessary to the security of the Constitution ; and while I continue in public life , I shall not halt in my endeavors to produce it . It is time to ...
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