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Showing posts with label Internal Improvements. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internal Improvements. Show all posts
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Congressman Albert G. Brown’s Speech on Homesteads, July 26, 1850

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WHEN arrested in the progress of my remarks yesterday, I was about to say that I approved of the main object of the bill reported by the Com...
Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Remarks of Jefferson Davis on the Bill to Raise Two Regiments of Riflemen delivered in the House of Representatives, March 27, 1846.

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Mr. JEFFERSON DAVIS said he did not intend to enter into a wide discussion with reference to the tariff, to Oregon, to Texas, or to the impr...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

John H. Lumpkin* to Howell Cobb, November 13, 1846

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Rome [ga.], 13th Nov., 1846. Dear Cobb , Your letter of the 10th inst. was received by last night's mail. I agree with you that th...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Charles J. McDonald* to Howell Cobb, July 7, 1846

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Macon [ga.], 7th July, 1846. Dear Cobb , I am here, and a moment's leisure gives me the opportunity to inquire of you what the Dem...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Gerrit Smith: The True Office of Civil Government, April 14, 1851

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[Delivered at Troy, New York, April 14, 1851.] The legitimate action of Civil Government is very simple. Its legitimate range is very n...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Robert Toombs to Congressman Alexander H. Stephens, January 24, 1845

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Washington [ga. ], Jany. 24th, 1845. Dear Stephens , . . . I can hear nothing of local politics. There is a dead calm. The report of th...
Monday, July 17, 2017

Salmon P. Chase to Ahaz Merchant,* Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday, January 23, 1849

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Jan. 23d [1849.] Dear Sir — I received this morning your favor of the 18th inst. & I beg leave to disclaim at once all pretention ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Abraham Lincoln’s Address to the People of Sangamon County, March 9, 1832*

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FELLOW-CITIZENS: Having become a candidate for the honorable office of one of your Representatives in the next General Assembly of this Sta...