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Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion - it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours.
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There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of…
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Conflicting commercial regulations of the different States shackled and diminished both foreign and domestic trade; hence the power to regulate commerce was…
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The firing on that fort will inaugurate a civil war greater than any the world has yet seen…you will lose us every…
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Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation…
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Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them…
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Liberty, in its last analysis, is but the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave.
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The door of conciliation and compromise is finally closed by our adversaries, and it remains only to us to meet the conflict…
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They all agree, they are all unanimous in Congress, in the States, on the rostrum, in the sanctuary - everywhere they declare…
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I very much regret, in appearing before you at your request, to address you on the present state of the country, and…
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With these vast advantages, ordinary and extraordinary, one would have supposed the North would have been content, and would have at least…
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The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.
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