 | Daniel Webster - 1850 - 64 Seiten
...be the highest honor, to Virginia, for the cession of her northwestern territory. I will say, sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and...statesmen, proceeded the first idea put into practice of the formation of a general constitution of the United States. Now, sir, the ordinance of 1787 was... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 566 Seiten
...and gratitude of the country, and that, perhaps, it is only second to that other claim which belongs to her; that from her counsels, and from the intelligence...statesmen, proceeded the first idea put into practice of the formation of a general constitution of the United States. The Ordinance of 1787 applied to the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 568 Seiten
...be the highest honor, to Virginia, for the cession of her northwestern territory. I will say, Sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and gratitude of the country, and that, perhaps, it is only second to that other claim which belongs to her; that from her... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 566 Seiten
...be the highest honor, to Virginia, for the cession of her northwestern territory. I will say, Sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and gratitude of the country, and that, perhaps, it ia only second to that other claim which belongs to her; that from her... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 568 Seiten
...territory. I will say, Sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and gratitude of the country, and that, perhaps, it is only second to that other claim which belongs to her ; that from her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading statesmen,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1857 - 648 Seiten
...highest honor — to Virginia for that act of cession of her north-western territory. I will say, sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and...to that other claim, which attaches to her : that in her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading statesmen, proceeded the first... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 Seiten
...territory. I will say, Sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and gratitude of the country, and that, perhaps, it is only second to that other claim which belongs to her ; that from her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading statesmen,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1861 - 644 Seiten
...— to Virginia for that act of cession of her north-western territory. I will say, sir, it is ope of her fairest claims to the respect and gratitude...to that other claim, which attaches to her : that in her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading statesmen, proceeded the first... | |
 | Virginia. Department of Education - 1871 - 226 Seiten
...be the highest honor — to Virginia, for the cession of her North-west Territory. I will say, sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and...that, perhaps, it is only second to that other claim that attaches to her; that from her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading... | |
 | Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac - 1871 - 364 Seiten
...the highest honor; — to Virginia, for the cession of her Northwestern territory. I will say, sir, it is one of her fairest claims to the respect and...that, perhaps, it is only second to that other claim that attaches to her ; that, from her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading... | |
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... to her; that from her counsels, and from the intelligence and patriotism of her leading statesmen, proceeded the first idea put into practice of the formation of a general constitution of the United States. 
