The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
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The right has been established of every citizen to take his property of any kind , including slaves , into the common Territories belonging equally to all the States of the con- federacy , and to have it protected there under the ...
The right has been established of every citizen to take his property of any kind , including slaves , into the common Territories belonging equally to all the States of the con- federacy , and to have it protected there under the ...
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The general immediately responded to this petition , and ordered Captain George E. Pickett , 9th infantry , " to establish his company on Bellevue , or San Juan island , on some suitable position near the harbor at the southeastern ...
The general immediately responded to this petition , and ordered Captain George E. Pickett , 9th infantry , " to establish his company on Bellevue , or San Juan island , on some suitable position near the harbor at the southeastern ...
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Had this been an established government , with its power extending , by the con- sent of the people , over the whole of Mexico , a resort to hostilities against it would have been quite justifiable , and , indeed , necessary .
Had this been an established government , with its power extending , by the con- sent of the people , over the whole of Mexico , a resort to hostilities against it would have been quite justifiable , and , indeed , necessary .
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Unhappily , however , the constitutional government has not been able to establish its power over the whole republic . It is supported by a large majority of the people and the states , but there are important parts of the country where ...
Unhappily , however , the constitutional government has not been able to establish its power over the whole republic . It is supported by a large majority of the people and the states , but there are important parts of the country where ...
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... virtue of our neighborhood to Mexico , along whose territory we have a continuous frontier of nearly a thousand miles , but by virtue , also , of our established policy , which is inconsis- tent with the intervention of any European ...
... virtue of our neighborhood to Mexico , along whose territory we have a continuous frontier of nearly a thousand miles , but by virtue , also , of our established policy , which is inconsis- tent with the intervention of any European ...
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| Title | The Abridgment ... Containing the Annual Message of the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress ... with Reports of Departments and Selections from Accompanying Papers |
| Author | United States. President |
| Published | 1860 |
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