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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At present , he is treated with kindness and humanity . ... There the master , intent upon present gain , extorts from the slave as much labor as his physical powers are capable of enduring ; knowing that , when death comes to his ...
At present , he is treated with kindness and humanity . ... There the master , intent upon present gain , extorts from the slave as much labor as his physical powers are capable of enduring ; knowing that , when death comes to his ...
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Until a recent period there was good reason to believe that I should be able to announce to you on the present occasion that our difficulties with Great Britain , arising out of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty , had been finally adjusted ...
Until a recent period there was good reason to believe that I should be able to announce to you on the present occasion that our difficulties with Great Britain , arising out of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty , had been finally adjusted ...
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... on the present occasion , to go further into the subject , and discuss the weight which ought to be attached to the statements of the British colonial authorities , contesting the accu- racy of the information on which the gallant ...
... on the present occasion , to go further into the subject , and discuss the weight which ought to be attached to the statements of the British colonial authorities , contesting the accu- racy of the information on which the gallant ...
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Murders of a still more atrocious character have been committed in the very heart of Mexico , under the authority of Mira- mon's government , during the present year . Some of these were only worthy of a barbarous age , and if they had ...
Murders of a still more atrocious character have been committed in the very heart of Mexico , under the authority of Mira- mon's government , during the present year . Some of these were only worthy of a barbarous age , and if they had ...
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But does not the present case fairly con- stitute an exception ? An adjoining republic is in a state of anarchy and confusion , from which she has proved wholly unable to extricate herself . She is entirely destitute of the power to ...
But does not the present case fairly con- stitute an exception ? An adjoining republic is in a state of anarchy and confusion , from which she has proved wholly unable to extricate herself . She is entirely destitute of the power to ...
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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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