American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Band 1Frank Moore Appleton, 1859 |
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... force into any other compact , such fraud and such force could confer no obli- gation . Every man had a right to trample it under foot whenever he pleased . In short , he asserted these rights to be derived only from nature , and the ...
... force into any other compact , such fraud and such force could confer no obli- gation . Every man had a right to trample it under foot whenever he pleased . In short , he asserted these rights to be derived only from nature , and the ...
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... force . When- ever you give up that force , you are inevitably under consideration , there is the strangest lan- guage that I can conceive . I mean , when it says , that there shall not be more representa- tives than one for every ...
... force . When- ever you give up that force , you are inevitably under consideration , there is the strangest lan- guage that I can conceive . I mean , when it says , that there shall not be more representa- tives than one for every ...
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... force to punish him ? Can he not , at the head of his army , beat down every opposition ? Away with your president , we shall have a king : the army will salute him monarch ; your militia will leave you , and assist in making him king ...
... force to punish him ? Can he not , at the head of his army , beat down every opposition ? Away with your president , we shall have a king : the army will salute him monarch ; your militia will leave you , and assist in making him king ...
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... force of imagination ; they are but too well founded . I tremble for my country : but , sir , I trust , I rely , and I am con- fident , that this political speculation has not taken so strong a hold of men's minds as some would make us ...
... force of imagination ; they are but too well founded . I tremble for my country : but , sir , I trust , I rely , and I am con- fident , that this political speculation has not taken so strong a hold of men's minds as some would make us ...
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... force and effect of their suffrages . Congress is the absurdity of adopting this system , and re- to have a discretionary control over the time , lying on the chance of getting it amended af- place and manner of elections . The ...
... force and effect of their suffrages . Congress is the absurdity of adopting this system , and re- to have a discretionary control over the time , lying on the chance of getting it amended af- place and manner of elections . The ...
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Seite 257 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Seite 258 - Our detached and distant situation invites and enables us to pursue a different course. If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from. external annoyance; when we may take such an" attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected...
Seite 255 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations, which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Seite 254 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Seite 258 - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. But, if I may even flatter myself that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good ; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended...
Seite 257 - ... of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation. As avenues to foreign influence, in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities do they afford to tamper with domestic factions, to practice the arts of seduction, to mislead public opinion, to influence or awe the public...
Seite 253 - I rejoice that the state of your concerns, external as well as internal, no longer renders the pursuit of inclination incompatible with the sentiment of duty or propriety; and am persuaded, whatever partiality may be retained for my services, that, in the present circumstances of our country, you will not disapprove my determination to retire.
Seite 257 - ... revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties) ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate. Observe...
Seite 372 - That the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation ; and, moreover, to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Seite 254 - You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together. The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts — of common dangers, sufferings and successes.