Reprints of Littell's Political Transactions in and Concerning Kentucky and Letter of George Nicholas to His Friend in Virginia: Also General Wilkinson's Memorial |
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... facts and considerations which they do not mention . Littell's little work was written during the excitement of an active and bitter controversy which filled the rival newspapers of the day and aroused intensest public interest . It was ...
... facts and considerations which they do not mention . Littell's little work was written during the excitement of an active and bitter controversy which filled the rival newspapers of the day and aroused intensest public interest . It was ...
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... fact , he says himself ; " It is , however , believed that the real spirit of these papers was peculiar to the author [ meaning Wilkinson ] , or embraced by a few only of the members of the convention . " ( Marshall's Kentucky , I , 210 ...
... fact , he says himself ; " It is , however , believed that the real spirit of these papers was peculiar to the author [ meaning Wilkinson ] , or embraced by a few only of the members of the convention . " ( Marshall's Kentucky , I , 210 ...
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... fact which should not be forgotten in view of the contrary impression given by Marshall's history . Evidently aiming to prepare his readers to accept the incriminating and very strained construction which he would afterwards put on an ...
... fact which should not be forgotten in view of the contrary impression given by Marshall's history . Evidently aiming to prepare his readers to accept the incriminating and very strained construction which he would afterwards put on an ...
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... fact , as will soon clearly appear , Wilkinson never did design detaching Kentucky from the Confederation , although ( for reasons to be explained ) he did afterward in 1788 make great pretense of aiming to do so , and cunningly ...
... fact , as will soon clearly appear , Wilkinson never did design detaching Kentucky from the Confederation , although ( for reasons to be explained ) he did afterward in 1788 make great pretense of aiming to do so , and cunningly ...
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... fact , they never did learn his real object , or what he did there . Before his return , no letter or communication of any kind ever passed between him and any one of them which a diligent search of their correspondence has revealed ...
... fact , they never did learn his real object , or what he did there . Before his return , no letter or communication of any kind ever passed between him and any one of them which a diligent search of their correspondence has revealed ...
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Page 119 - The western and northern extent of Virginia shall, in all other respects, stand as fixed by the Charter of King James I. in...
Page 142 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...