Word: long
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...protected against social criticism and humanitarian reform. To enforce these demands the representatives of the plantation interest had to do more than stand on the defensive; they had to take the lead of the nation. In this way the whole tendency of American thought and life was for a long time withstood...
...industrial and social system. The course of the lower South on all domestic questions debated between 1820 and 1850 was in accordance with the economic and political demands of its civilization and it must be said that its public men had their way on all of them. So long as the North did not revolt against declining tariff duties, or insistently demand internal improvements, or try to tear down the subtreasurers and clamor for a bank, it could not be said that there was any irrepressible conflict of any industrial sort. So far, then, as hindsight avails, the Southerners...
...chance in the territories, the theory of secession became at once the foremost subject of discussion. So perfect was the unanimity and solidity of the people, that within a hundred days from the election of Lincoln they were seated in the provisional congress of a new government. Masters so long, they were masterful...
...have not as yet secured their tickets may get them at Leavitt's until 4 o'clock. After that tickets may be had at the hotel. The dinner is open to all members of the University as well as to members of class debating clubs. The John D. Long medals and Surbridge cups will be presented...
...corner of Exeter and Boylston street, Boston, at 7 o'clock. Speeches will be made by members of the Faculty, various graduates, the president of the University Debating Club, and members of teams that have debated against Yale. After the speeches the Surbridge debating caps and they John D. Long medals will be presented to the members of the winning teams...