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- Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
- Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon…
- The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict with the dignity…
- Peace and commerce with foreign nations could be more effectually and cheaply cultivated by a common agent; therefore they gave the Federal Government the sole…
- We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear,…
- In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions.
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