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... Webster , as was natural on account of my connection with the Democratic party , but I often recall two incidents in connection with him . It was , I think , about the time Robert J. Walker's tariff of 1846 was passed that he came to ...
... Webster , as was natural on account of my connection with the Democratic party , but I often recall two incidents in connection with him . It was , I think , about the time Robert J. Walker's tariff of 1846 was passed that he came to ...
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... Webster , and who bought several copies of the old speech , thinking it the new one . But Mr. Webster enjoyed it hugely ; and when his friend , George Ashmun , handed him my Extra , he laughed heartily , and said , " I think Forney has ...
... Webster , and who bought several copies of the old speech , thinking it the new one . But Mr. Webster enjoyed it hugely ; and when his friend , George Ashmun , handed him my Extra , he laughed heartily , and said , " I think Forney has ...
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... Webster . He resembled Rufus Choate in astonishing rapidity of speech and in splendor of diction . How often I have regretted that his memorable passages were not preserved . The courts of Pennsylvania and the Democratic conventions ...
... Webster . He resembled Rufus Choate in astonishing rapidity of speech and in splendor of diction . How often I have regretted that his memorable passages were not preserved . The courts of Pennsylvania and the Democratic conventions ...
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... Webster , Calhoun , or Jackson . It seems to have been ordain- ed that each was to be the last of his race , and that none should be left to eclipse his fame . The first time I ever saw John Quincy Adams was also the first time I ever ...
... Webster , Calhoun , or Jackson . It seems to have been ordain- ed that each was to be the last of his race , and that none should be left to eclipse his fame . The first time I ever saw John Quincy Adams was also the first time I ever ...
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... Webster in 1824 , able as it was , was not a particle more conscientious than his protection argument in Philadelphia twenty - two years later . The leading Federalist in Lancaster County from 1814 to 1827 was the same James Buchanan ...
... Webster in 1824 , able as it was , was not a particle more conscientious than his protection argument in Philadelphia twenty - two years later . The leading Federalist in Lancaster County from 1814 to 1827 was the same James Buchanan ...
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Seite 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Seite 171 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Seite 12 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Seite 244 - I assure you and your mayor that I had hoped on this occasion, and upon all occasions during my life, that I shall do nothing inconsistent with the teachings of these holy and most sacred walls. I have never asked anything that does not breathe from those walls.
Seite 169 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 170 - Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this Administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance or insignificance can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Seite 245 - But I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, if it be the pleasure of Almighty God, to die by.
Seite 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Seite 91 - Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no code or creed confined — The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.
Seite 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...