The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster: Speeches in Congress and legal argumentsLittle, Brown, 1903 |
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... particular State , more Senators than you have Representatives . Can any thing occur to disfigure and derange the form of government under which we live more sig- nally than that ? Here would be a Senate bearing no propor- tion to the ...
... particular State , more Senators than you have Representatives . Can any thing occur to disfigure and derange the form of government under which we live more sig- nally than that ? Here would be a Senate bearing no propor- tion to the ...
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... under it , organized in 1789 , do recognize the existence of slavery in certain States , then belonging to the Union ; and a particular description of slavery . • Mr. Berrien . I hope that what I am about to say may 36 Speeches in Congress.
... under it , organized in 1789 , do recognize the existence of slavery in certain States , then belonging to the Union ; and a particular description of slavery . • Mr. Berrien . I hope that what I am about to say may 36 Speeches in Congress.
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... particular description of slavery does not , I believe , now exist in Europe , nor in any other civilized portion of the habitable globe . It is not a predial slavery . It is not analogous to the case of the predial slaves , or slaves ...
... particular description of slavery does not , I believe , now exist in Europe , nor in any other civilized portion of the habitable globe . It is not a predial slavery . It is not analogous to the case of the predial slaves , or slaves ...
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... particular measure . I do not mean to say , Sir , that there may not be several modes of establishing a communi- cation with the Pacific coast that are equally desirable . I am willing to say , on the other hand , that I have regarded ...
... particular measure . I do not mean to say , Sir , that there may not be several modes of establishing a communi- cation with the Pacific coast that are equally desirable . I am willing to say , on the other hand , that I have regarded ...
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... particular provisions or details of this measure . I am not in possession of such esti- mates as enable me to say whether the limitations so called in the bill now on your table , or the limitation which will be in the same bill if the ...
... particular provisions or details of this measure . I am not in possession of such esti- mates as enable me to say whether the limitations so called in the bill now on your table , or the limitation which will be in the same bill if the ...
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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.