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...Henry Reeve A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reev... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy in America, Volumes One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of th... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...n years that separated the Declaration of the In- dependence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Con... ...fore, practical and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither specu... ...rchs in many contests, in many countries, and were grouped into creeds and established in ordinances sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the... ... of whom were young men, in building upon the Inde- pendence of the United States that wisest and best plan of general government that was ever devise... ...he States of New England. It was generally allowed at that period that the territories of the New World belonged to that European nation which had bee... ...ng that the State of Ohio should claim the same right in behalf of certain territories lying within its boundaries, upon the plea that the Constitutio...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...SE. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that, before the first meeting of ... ...show that they were regularly elected in accordance with the laws of their States respec- tively, or the laws of the United States. Approved March 3, ... ...ssional declaration for limited and con- ditional pardon accords with well-established judicial exposi- tion of the pardoning power; and Whereas, with... ...long the Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. Such commu- nications, established with any reasonable outlay, would be economical as well as effe... ...nctions and extraordi- nary powers. The condition of the several organized Territories is gener- ally satisfactory, although Indian disturbances in Ne... ...rs ago would tolerate any restraint upon the extension of slavery into new Territories, dispute now only as to the best mode of removing it within the...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the lib...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 1 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...syl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ... yet it is in a peculiar degree both illustrative and typical of the great statesman who made it, alike in its strong com- 4 The Writings of Abraham ... ...He says: “….the moral qualities that are required in the higher spheres of statesmanship [are not] those of a hero or a saint. Passionate earnestness ... ... votes for the famous Wilmot Proviso, intended to exclude slavery from the Territories acquired from Mexico. But when, at the expiration of his term, ... ...-Nebraska Bill in 1854. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise, opening the Territories of the United States, the heritage of coming generations, to th... ...dly dis- avowed any wish on his part to have social and political equality established between whites and blacks. On this point he summed up his views... ...n which he was, if rightly controlled. He ig- nored the insult, but firmly established his superiority. In his reply, which he forthwith despatched, h...

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...I. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the P... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...de the ‘call’ illegal. The fact is, that no man can decide whether the act established a new law, or merely expounded an old one. And the reason why h... ...ected at any time, much more when contrasted with the deep slumbers of the Established Church. And another ground of prosper- ity soon arose out of th... ...mes demanded, it was essential that they should be wielded by a first-rate statesman, sup- ported by a first-rate soldier. The statesman and the soldi... ...nd Istria, (with the exception of the maritime cities,) were joined to the territories, which he had himself conquered, of Hungary and Bohemia. As far... ..., the Resolution, and her consort, the Adventure, were as much independent states and objects of lawful war to the is- landers, as Owyhee, in the Sand... ...ndy—take away Alsace, and Lorraine, and Franche Compte—take away the alien territories adjacent to Spain and Navarre—take away Avignon, &c.—take away ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...NY OF THE INTERVIEW OF PRINCES ..................................................... 104 CHAPTER XIV THAT MEN ARE JUSTLY PUNISHED FOR BEING OBSTINATE IN THE DEFENCE OF A FORT THAT IS NOT IN REASON TO BE DEFENDED .......................................................................... 105 CHAPTER XV OF THE PUNISHMENT OF COWARDICE .............................................

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...urs of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would support the nominee. Neither Baker nor I, however, is the man, but Hardin, so far as I can judge from present appearances. We shall have no split or...

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...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth ...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom; and about 1829 the dark territories of Pathol- ogy were a fine America for a spirited young adventu... ...rode, excited by his apparent determination to patronize Lydgate. The long-established practitioners, Mr. Wrench and Mr. Tol- ler; were just now stand... ...cceed each other like the magic-lantern pictures of a doze; and in certain states of dull forlornness Dorothea all her life continued to see the vastn... ...actitioner, having increased Middlemarch practice in that direction. Great statesmen err, and why not small medical men? Mr. Wrench did not neglect se... ...rence for armorial bearings in our own ease, link us indissolubly with the established order. And Lydgate’s tendency was not towards extreme opinions:...