Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster Upon the Subject of Slavery: Delivered in the United States Senate on Thursday, March 7, 1850Redding & Company, 1894 - 39 Seiten |
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... maintained , in opposition to Calhoun , that protection is the Original American Policy . The passage is extended , but foundational . It is part of his reply to Calhoun , " The Constitution Not a Compact , " in the United States Senate ...
... maintained , in opposition to Calhoun , that protection is the Original American Policy . The passage is extended , but foundational . It is part of his reply to Calhoun , " The Constitution Not a Compact , " in the United States Senate ...
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... maintains the propriety of protecting , by custom- house regulations , various pursuits and employments among ourselves . Our opponents repudiate this policy , and embrace the doctrines of what is called free trade . This is the general ...
... maintains the propriety of protecting , by custom- house regulations , various pursuits and employments among ourselves . Our opponents repudiate this policy , and embrace the doctrines of what is called free trade . This is the general ...
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... maintaining what has been established . I see at home , I see here , I see wherever I go , that the stimulus , which has excited the existing activity , is producing the existing prosperity of the country , is nothing else than the ...
... maintaining what has been established . I see at home , I see here , I see wherever I go , that the stimulus , which has excited the existing activity , is producing the existing prosperity of the country , is nothing else than the ...
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... maintain , and children to educate , has an unequal chance against the pauper of England , whose children are not to be educated , and are probably already on the parish ; and who himself is half fed and clothed by his own labor , and ...
... maintain , and children to educate , has an unequal chance against the pauper of England , whose children are not to be educated , and are probably already on the parish ; and who himself is half fed and clothed by his own labor , and ...
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... maintains , that , other things being reduced in proportion , you may reduce the wages of labor without evil consequences . And where does he seek this example ? On the shores of the Medi- terranean . He fixes upon Corsica and Sardinia ...
... maintains , that , other things being reduced in proportion , you may reduce the wages of labor without evil consequences . And where does he seek this example ? On the shores of the Medi- terranean . He fixes upon Corsica and Sardinia ...
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Seite 15 - Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State; be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission, under the provisions of the Federal Constitution. And such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of...
Seite 5 - Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.
Seite 7 - 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 55 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Seite 7 - 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 daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Seite 12 - Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.
Seite 12 - He is a rash man indeed, and little conversant with human nature, and especially has he a very erroneous estimate of the character of the people of this country, who supposes that a feeling of this kind is to be trifled with or despised. It will assuredly cause itself to be respected.
Seite 28 - Then, sir, there are these abolition societies, of which I am unwilling to speak, but in regard to which I have very clear notions and opinions. I do not think them useful. I think their operations for the last twenty years have produced nothing good or valuable.
Seite 50 - be required and directed to adopt such measures as he may deem necessary to cause, as soon as may be, all duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money accruing or becoming payable to the United States to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States...
Seite 32 - Where is the flag of the Republic to remain ? Where is the eagle still to tower ? or is he to cower, and shrink and fall to the ground...