America, Its Realities and Resources: Comprising Important Details Connected with the Present Social, Political, Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial State of the Country, Its Laws and Customs, Together with a Review of the Policy of the United States that Led to the War of 1812, and Peace of 1814--the "right of Search," the Texas and Oregon Questions, Etc. Etc, Volume 2 |
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... citizens , in decrying this staple and inhuman traffic , is at once denounced - charged as an incendiary and an enemy to the public weal , and at war with the best interests of the Republic . Americans sometimes endeavour to remove from ...
... citizens , in decrying this staple and inhuman traffic , is at once denounced - charged as an incendiary and an enemy to the public weal , and at war with the best interests of the Republic . Americans sometimes endeavour to remove from ...
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... citizens : - for though such interference is not directly ceded as within its immediate and positive authority , a right is nevertheless reserved to the General Govern- ment , and under the same federal compact of an undisputed control ...
... citizens : - for though such interference is not directly ceded as within its immediate and positive authority , a right is nevertheless reserved to the General Govern- ment , and under the same federal compact of an undisputed control ...
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... citizen - the right conceded to the people to petition Congress for the redress of any assumed or positive grievance ... citizens , touching slavery , or the slave trade of the United States ; and thus , virtually , abrogated of their ...
... citizen - the right conceded to the people to petition Congress for the redress of any assumed or positive grievance ... citizens , touching slavery , or the slave trade of the United States ; and thus , virtually , abrogated of their ...
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... citizens was an extreme measure - an unwarranted usurpation of their just rights , unsanctioned by the constitution , or any former precedent , and that it was the bounden duty of the people to relieve themselves from its influence , by ...
... citizens was an extreme measure - an unwarranted usurpation of their just rights , unsanctioned by the constitution , or any former precedent , and that it was the bounden duty of the people to relieve themselves from its influence , by ...
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... citizens fully in- demnified for the loss , by reason of her neglect , or refusal to do so . Up to the period of the entire manumission of the West India , and other British colonial slaves , the principle of granting an indemnity for ...
... citizens fully in- demnified for the loss , by reason of her neglect , or refusal to do so . Up to the period of the entire manumission of the West India , and other British colonial slaves , the principle of granting an indemnity for ...
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