Orations and Arguments by English and American StatesmenCornelius Beach Bradley Allyn and Bacon, 1894 - 378 Seiten |
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... wish 20 the Colonists to be persuaded that their liberty is more secure when held in trust for them by us , as their guard- ians during a perpetual minority , than with any part of it in their own hands . The question is , not whether ...
... wish 20 the Colonists to be persuaded that their liberty is more secure when held in trust for them by us , as their guard- ians during a perpetual minority , than with any part of it in their own hands . The question is , not whether ...
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... wishes of grave and solemn politicians . If then , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any 5 alterative course for changing the moral causes , and not quite easy to remove the natural , which produce preju dices irreconcilable ...
... wishes of grave and solemn politicians . If then , Sir , it seems almost desperate to think of any 5 alterative course for changing the moral causes , and not quite easy to remove the natural , which produce preju dices irreconcilable ...
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... wish , let us not refuse 30 it altogether . If we cannot give the principal , let us find a substitute . But how ? Where ? What substitute ? Fortunately I am not obliged , for the ways and means of this substitute , to tax my own ...
... wish , let us not refuse 30 it altogether . If we cannot give the principal , let us find a substitute . But how ? Where ? What substitute ? Fortunately I am not obliged , for the ways and means of this substitute , to tax my own ...
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... wish you to recognize , for the theory , the ancient constitutional policy of this kingdom with regard to rep- resentation , as that policy has been declared in Acts of Parliament ; and as to the practice , to return to that mode which ...
... wish you to recognize , for the theory , the ancient constitutional policy of this kingdom with regard to rep- resentation , as that policy has been declared in Acts of Parliament ; and as to the practice , to return to that mode which ...
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... wish , Sir , to repeal the Boston Port Bill , because 20 independently of the dangerous precedent of suspending the rights of the subject during the King's pleasure — it was passed , as I apprehend , with less regularity and on more ...
... wish , Sir , to repeal the Boston Port Bill , because 20 independently of the dangerous precedent of suspending the rights of the subject during the King's pleasure — it was passed , as I apprehend , with less regularity and on more ...
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Seite 223 - ... as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the 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,...
Seite 251 - 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 250 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. 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...
Seite 251 - 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 22 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance. Here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance ; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Seite 251 - 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, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as
Seite 79 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Seite 15 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Seite 108 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Seite 72 - Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil. They may have it from Spain, they may have it from Prussia. But until you become lost to all feeling of your true interest and your natural dignity, freedom they can have from none but you.