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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... scarcely numbering a population of 70,000 inhabitants : -as well the equally important truth , that in the district of Columbia , under the tutelage and sole controlling power of the General Government of the country , where no compact ...
... scarcely numbering a population of 70,000 inhabitants : -as well the equally important truth , that in the district of Columbia , under the tutelage and sole controlling power of the General Government of the country , where no compact ...
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... scarcely a week intervenes without a considerable number of these unfortunate beings being dragged from their early homes , and shipped , either from this port ( Washington ) , or the port of Alexandria , in the vicinity , for some one ...
... scarcely a week intervenes without a considerable number of these unfortunate beings being dragged from their early homes , and shipped , either from this port ( Washington ) , or the port of Alexandria , in the vicinity , for some one ...
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... a name . It can scarcely be received as an apology on behalf of the Federal Government , that the state of parties within the Republic , has , to some extent , coerced it ยท into a tacit or implied support of the slave 20 ...
... a name . It can scarcely be received as an apology on behalf of the Federal Government , that the state of parties within the Republic , has , to some extent , coerced it ยท into a tacit or implied support of the slave 20 ...
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... scarcely have been considered as to its apparent object , or with the expectation that any country with a much less regard to the principle that should regulate her intercourse with the other nations of Christendom , should seek to bind ...
... scarcely have been considered as to its apparent object , or with the expectation that any country with a much less regard to the principle that should regulate her intercourse with the other nations of Christendom , should seek to bind ...
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... scarcely possible to suppose , that Mr. Cal- houn , who moved this resolution in the Senate , - whom we believe to have been gifted with a reason- able share of common sense , and somewhat of dis- cretion , or his co - members of the ...
... scarcely possible to suppose , that Mr. Cal- houn , who moved this resolution in the Senate , - whom we believe to have been gifted with a reason- able share of common sense , and somewhat of dis- cretion , or his co - members of the ...
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