Sat官方指南og test8 精读废奴辩论道格拉斯篇2

2019-04-05 14:10:0607:09 94

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I now come back to the question, why cannot this
Union exist forever, divided into Free and Slave a
States, as our fathers made it? It can thus exist if each
State will carry out the principles upon which our
institutions were founded; to wit, the right of each State to do as it pleases, without meddling with its neighbors. Just act upon that great principle, and this Union will not only live forever, but it will extend and expand until it covers the whole continent, and makes this confederacy one grand, ocean-bound Republic. We must bear in mind that we are yet a young nation, growing with a rapidity unequalled in the history of the world, that our national increase is great, and that the emigration from the old world is increasing, requiring us to expand and acquire new territory from time to time, in order to give our people land to live upon. If we live upon the principle. of State rights and State sovereignty, each State
regulating its own affairs and minding its own
business, we can go on and extend indefinitely
as fast and as far as we need the territory...