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On the recordMarch 2, 1859
The urgency of the case not only justifies but demands that, if necessary, this shall be done by a separate bill.
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Vera Buchanan
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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no nation in the tide of time has ever presented a spectacle of greater material prosperity than we have done until within a very recent period.

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