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Page 211 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
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| Title | Some Southern Questions |
| Author | William Alexander MacCorkle |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's sons, 1908 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Jan 22, 2008 |
| Length | 318 pages |
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