Word: seacoast
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...planned the great republic as it is today, nor even anticipated the present condition of the states. Nothing was ever further from the present homogeneous republic than the thirteen original colonies, differing in political conceptions, with religious faiths as divergent as Chrisianity admits, scattered along two thousand miles of seacoast, with rivalries and animosities unrestrained...
...consequences of such a seizure. In what part of the country is the land to be seized? Who is to determine its value? It the interested party to determine its value? Suppose two European creditors wish the same land? In every case this land would be taken along the seacoast and must include a harbor for otherwise it would not be accessible. In this debate it has been, shown that the genera law of the affirmative is too broad to be statesman like; that it means an abandonment of a policy which we have shown a right to maintain; that...