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... cause of human progress and of free institutions , if they had remained under that dominion , bad as it was ? In the aggregate , is the term used , for Chile no doubt presents the only , and a most notable exception . As republicans ...
... cause of human progress and of free institutions , if they had remained under that dominion , bad as it was ? In the aggregate , is the term used , for Chile no doubt presents the only , and a most notable exception . As republicans ...
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... causes which led to the late Civil War prevented , for the time , the development of a com- plete unity of nationality . But now these causes have been removed . Even the Democratic party , which , with all its errors , was the great ...
... causes which led to the late Civil War prevented , for the time , the development of a com- plete unity of nationality . But now these causes have been removed . Even the Democratic party , which , with all its errors , was the great ...
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... . It was the deliberate , as well as instinctive act of a people of British origin , rising to vindicate , and not overturn , the law ; to cause terror to the brigands , and put them to flight . THE RIGHTS Of Labour . Capital is one of the.
... . It was the deliberate , as well as instinctive act of a people of British origin , rising to vindicate , and not overturn , the law ; to cause terror to the brigands , and put them to flight . THE RIGHTS Of Labour . Capital is one of the.
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... caused by the prolongation of the war , all of which may be called national in contradistinction to individual . " Our national losses have been frankly conceded by eminent Englishmen . I have already quoted Mr. Cobden , who did not ...
... caused by the prolongation of the war , all of which may be called national in contradistinction to individual . " Our national losses have been frankly conceded by eminent Englishmen . I have already quoted Mr. Cobden , who did not ...
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... they are larger far . I refer , of course , to the national losses caused by the prolongation of the war , and traceable directly to England . Pardon me if I confess the regret with which I touch this prodigious item ;
... they are larger far . I refer , of course , to the national losses caused by the prolongation of the war , and traceable directly to England . Pardon me if I confess the regret with which I touch this prodigious item ;
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Page 60 - Treaty; and all claims, with the like exception, on the part of Corporations, Companies, or private individuals, subjects of Her Britannic Majesty , upon the Government of the United States...
Page 31 - I would rather be handed down to posterity as the builder of a dozen AlaIm-inas than as the man who applies himself deliberately to set class against class, and to cry up the institutions of another country which, when they come to be tested, are of no value whatever, and which reduce the very name of liberty to an utter absurdity.
Page 59 - Government as well as by its citizens. The injuries resulting to the United States by reason of the course adopted by Great Britain .during our late civil war...
Page 60 - The high contracting parties agree that all claims on the part of corporations, companies, or private individuals, citizens of the United States, upon the Government of her Britannic Majesty...