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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... and alarming difficulties in our progress , but on each successive occasion the impending cloud has been dissipated at the moment it appeared ready to burst upon our head , and the danger to our institutions has passed away .
... and alarming difficulties in our progress , but on each successive occasion the impending cloud has been dissipated at the moment it appeared ready to burst upon our head , and the danger to our institutions has passed away .
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Accordingly we find that so early as the 22d March , 1794 , Congress passed an act imposing severe penalties and punishments upon citizens and residents of the United States who should engage in this trade between foreign nations .
Accordingly we find that so early as the 22d March , 1794 , Congress passed an act imposing severe penalties and punishments upon citizens and residents of the United States who should engage in this trade between foreign nations .
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And even if all the States had separately passed laws prohibiting the importation of slaves , these laws would have failed of effect for want of a naval force to capture the slavers and to guard the coast .
And even if all the States had separately passed laws prohibiting the importation of slaves , these laws would have failed of effect for want of a naval force to capture the slavers and to guard the coast .
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We must penetrate into the interior before we can reach the offenders , and this can only be done by passing through the territory in the occupation of the constitutional government . The most acceptable and least difficult mode of ...
We must penetrate into the interior before we can reach the offenders , and this can only be done by passing through the territory in the occupation of the constitutional government . The most acceptable and least difficult mode of ...
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Suffice it to say that the lives of many of our people , and the security of vast amounts of treasure passing and repassing over one or more of these routes between the Atlantic and Pacific , may be deeply involved in the action of ...
Suffice it to say that the lives of many of our people , and the security of vast amounts of treasure passing and repassing over one or more of these routes between the Atlantic and Pacific , may be deeply involved in the action of ...
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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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