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... reduction of the poll - tax . This would accomplish two objects , the one affect- ing essential political rights , and both worthy of earnest con- sideration . I hold that every man has a natural right to 14 [ Jan. GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS .
... reduction of the poll - tax . This would accomplish two objects , the one affect- ing essential political rights , and both worthy of earnest con- sideration . I hold that every man has a natural right to 14 [ Jan. GOVERNOR'S ADDRESS .
Page 15
... reduced to a very small sum , and that it be imposed upon every male between the ages of twenty and seventy years , " excepting paupers and persons under guardianship . " In assuming the government of the Commonwealth , we find its ...
... reduced to a very small sum , and that it be imposed upon every male between the ages of twenty and seventy years , " excepting paupers and persons under guardianship . " In assuming the government of the Commonwealth , we find its ...
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... reduced our expenditures within our income , and to have made a gradual reduction of our debt ; so that , in a short time , our State would have been raised to the financial condition it was in a few years ago — free of debt , with a ...
... reduced our expenditures within our income , and to have made a gradual reduction of our debt ; so that , in a short time , our State would have been raised to the financial condition it was in a few years ago — free of debt , with a ...
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Massachusetts. Governor. improvidence , and a reduction of expenses for a system of bor- rowing . Much is expected at ... reduced , or the former so increased , that , after meeting all necessary demands upon the treasury , there shall ...
Massachusetts. Governor. improvidence , and a reduction of expenses for a system of bor- rowing . Much is expected at ... reduced , or the former so increased , that , after meeting all necessary demands upon the treasury , there shall ...
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... reduced to the lowest poverty and extremest privation , to pay the interest on a debt contracted by some former generation . Public debts , in the course of time , become merely a mode of making the whole people , for a consideration ...
... reduced to the lowest poverty and extremest privation , to pay the interest on a debt contracted by some former generation . Public debts , in the course of time , become merely a mode of making the whole people , for a consideration ...
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