The Statesmen of America in 1846Carey and Hart, 1847 - 261 Seiten |
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... original words , and always with forbearance and patience . The art of conferring a favour is as difficult as the art of refusing it ; but the sagacity and good feeling which called into active service Slidell M'Kenzie and the veteran ...
... original words , and always with forbearance and patience . The art of conferring a favour is as difficult as the art of refusing it ; but the sagacity and good feeling which called into active service Slidell M'Kenzie and the veteran ...
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... original views and of statesmanlike practice . He is attached to the Democratic side , and is more of a sectional than of a party politician . The considerations of national power and ex- tension are , perhaps , more highly estimated by ...
... original views and of statesmanlike practice . He is attached to the Democratic side , and is more of a sectional than of a party politician . The considerations of national power and ex- tension are , perhaps , more highly estimated by ...
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... original , but sometimes blending in its harmonies the chords of other minstrels ; and by this union , imparting to their sounds a grace transcending their own . Being somewhat of a humourist , he tells a story most happily , and likes ...
... original , but sometimes blending in its harmonies the chords of other minstrels ; and by this union , imparting to their sounds a grace transcending their own . Being somewhat of a humourist , he tells a story most happily , and likes ...
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... original states , was seriously doubted by many of our wisest statesmen . All feared that they would become a source of discord , and many carried their apprehensions so far as to see in them the seeds of a future dissolution of the ...
... original states , was seriously doubted by many of our wisest statesmen . All feared that they would become a source of discord , and many carried their apprehensions so far as to see in them the seeds of a future dissolution of the ...
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... original sketches of some of the scenes of that now memorable voyage . My constituents all feel some pride in their connection with the title to this territory . But in their name I protest against the result of their peaceful ...
... original sketches of some of the scenes of that now memorable voyage . My constituents all feel some pride in their connection with the title to this territory . But in their name I protest against the result of their peaceful ...
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Seite 101 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Seite 100 - That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Seite 101 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe...
Seite 97 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if...
Seite 96 - Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered.
Seite 101 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Seite 101 - ... of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as What is...
Seite 200 - That Missouri shall be admitted into this Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever upon the fundamental condition that the fourth clause of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution, submitted on the part of said State to Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States...
Seite 100 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Seite 99 - But who shall decide this question of interference? To whom lies the last appeal? This, Sir, the Constitution itself decides also, by declaring "that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States.