The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 Seiten |
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... believe that they had received a portion of the spoil . The next step , therefore , was to arrest one Taber of Boston , who had formerly lived in Portland , and whom Goodridge said he had seen at Alfred on his way up , and from whom he ...
... believe that they had received a portion of the spoil . The next step , therefore , was to arrest one Taber of Boston , who had formerly lived in Portland , and whom Goodridge said he had seen at Alfred on his way up , and from whom he ...
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... believe their marine is weakened : probably , on the other hand , it is strengthened . But , what is most of all important , they have obtained time and experience . They have awakened a sympathy throughout Europe and throughout America ...
... believe their marine is weakened : probably , on the other hand , it is strengthened . But , what is most of all important , they have obtained time and experience . They have awakened a sympathy throughout Europe and throughout America ...
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... believe to be the proper one , there is no breach of neutrality , nor any just cause of offence . Such an agent , of course , would not be accredited ; he would not be a public minister . The object would be inquiry and information ...
... believe to be the proper one , there is no breach of neutrality , nor any just cause of offence . Such an agent , of course , would not be accredited ; he would not be a public minister . The object would be inquiry and information ...
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... believe the system to be wholly unconstitutional , and a violation of the compact between the States and the Union ; and our brethren turn a deaf ear to our com- plaints , and refuse to relieve us from a system which not enriches them ...
... believe the system to be wholly unconstitutional , and a violation of the compact between the States and the Union ; and our brethren turn a deaf ear to our com- plaints , and refuse to relieve us from a system which not enriches them ...
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... believe that you will go to war . The navigation States are sacrificed , and the spirit and character of the country prostrated by fear and avarice . ' ' You cannot , ' said the same gentleman , on another occasion , ' be kicked into a ...
... believe that you will go to war . The navigation States are sacrificed , and the spirit and character of the country prostrated by fear and avarice . ' ' You cannot , ' said the same gentleman , on another occasion , ' be kicked into a ...
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Seite 248 - 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 102 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Seite 346 - Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Seite 480 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Seite 215 - And, Sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
Seite 117 - ... that he may be brought before such Judges or other Magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered...
Seite 218 - States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Seite 216 - 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,...
Seite 444 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Seite 245 - And if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded, and these new doctrines interpolated in it, it will become as feeble and helpless a being as its enemies, whether early or more recent, could possibly desire.