The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Speeches in Congress and legal argumentsLittle, Brown, 1903 |
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... consider them as territory fit to be attached to these United States of America ; and our military operations and designs now before the Senate are to enforce this claim of the executive of the United States . We are to compel Mexico to ...
... consider them as territory fit to be attached to these United States of America ; and our military operations and designs now before the Senate are to enforce this claim of the executive of the United States . We are to compel Mexico to ...
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... consider our creature , do or do not agree to it ) the Mexican people will never accede to the terms of this treaty but through the impulse of absolute necessity , and the impression made upon them by absolute and irresistible force ...
... consider our creature , do or do not agree to it ) the Mexican people will never accede to the terms of this treaty but through the impulse of absolute necessity , and the impression made upon them by absolute and irresistible force ...
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... consider as likely to occur . And therefore I say , Sir , that , if I were asked to - day whether , for the sake of peace , I would take a treaty for adding two new States to the Union on our southern border , I would say , No ...
... consider as likely to occur . And therefore I say , Sir , that , if I were asked to - day whether , for the sake of peace , I would take a treaty for adding two new States to the Union on our southern border , I would say , No ...
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... consider those transactions as passed , settled , legalized . There they stand as matters of political history . • Mr. Jefferson . VOL . X. - 2 They are facts against which it would be idle at Objects of the Mexican War 17.
... consider those transactions as passed , settled , legalized . There they stand as matters of political history . • Mr. Jefferson . VOL . X. - 2 They are facts against which it would be idle at Objects of the Mexican War 17.
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... consider it . And now let me add , that this disproportion can never be diminished ; it must remain for ever . How are you going to diminish it ? Why , here is Texas , with a hundred and forty - nine thousand people , with one State ...
... consider it . And now let me add , that this disproportion can never be diminished ; it must remain for ever . How are you going to diminish it ? Why , here is Texas , with a hundred and forty - nine thousand people , with one State ...
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Seite 58 - Hear me for my cause." I speak to-day, out of a solicitous and anxious heart, for the restoration to the country of that quiet and that harmony which make the blessings of this Union so rich, and so dear to us all.
Seite 218 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land.
Seite 73 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of 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 provision of the Federal Constitution.
Seite 93 - ... to see them quit their places and fly off without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe. There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession.
Seite 95 - I would rather hear of natural blasts and mildews, war, pestilence, and famine, than to hear gentlemen talk of secession. To break up this great government! to dismember this glorious country!
Seite 98 - In all its history it has been beneficent ; it has trodden down no man's liberty ; it has crushed no State. Its daily respiration is liberty and patriotism ; its yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable love of glory and renown.
Seite 226 - But Justice Buller, in King v. Pasmore, furnishes, if possible, a still more direct and explicit authority. Speaking of a corporation for government, he says: "I do not know how to reason on this point better than in the manner urged by one of the relator's counsel, who considered the grant of incorporation to be a compact between the crown and a certain number of the subjects, the latter of whom undertake, in consideration of the privileges which are bestowed, to exert themselves for the good government...
Seite 209 - It is likewise a franchise, for a number of persons to be incorporated, and subsist as a body politic; with a power to maintain perpetual succession, and do other corporate acts: and each individual member of such corporation is also said to have a franchise or freedom.
Seite 38 - America today with regard to slavery, but ventures, or is driven, to make some such desperate answer as the following, while professing to speak absolutely, and as a private man - from which what new and singular code of social duties might be inferred? 'The manner...
Seite 225 - This is the common law of the land, and is a tacit condition annexed to the creation of every such corporation. Upon a change of government, too, it may be admitted, that such exclusive privileges attached to a private corporation as are inconsistent with the new Government may be abolished.