From Farm Boy to Senator: Being the History of the Boyhood and Manhood of Daniel WebsterJ.S. Ogilvie, no. 31 Rose Street, 1882 - 310 pages |
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... countrymen for centuries to come will point with just and patriotic pride . This boy with slender form , swarthy face , and dark eyes , was Daniel Webster . CHAPTER II . DANIEL AND HIS FATHER . DANIEL's family 16 FROM FARM BOY TO SENATOR .
... countrymen for centuries to come will point with just and patriotic pride . This boy with slender form , swarthy face , and dark eyes , was Daniel Webster . CHAPTER II . DANIEL AND HIS FATHER . DANIEL's family 16 FROM FARM BOY TO SENATOR .
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... patriotic pledge : " We do solemnly engage and promise that we will , to the utmost of our power , at the risk of our lives and fortunes , with arms , oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and ar- mies against the United ...
... patriotic pledge : " We do solemnly engage and promise that we will , to the utmost of our power , at the risk of our lives and fortunes , with arms , oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and ar- mies against the United ...
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... patriotism , of all those indescribable emoti which then agitated your breasts . As for who were either then unborn , or not far eno advanced beyond the threshold of existence to engage in the grand conflict for liberty , we now most ...
... patriotism , of all those indescribable emoti which then agitated your breasts . As for who were either then unborn , or not far eno advanced beyond the threshold of existence to engage in the grand conflict for liberty , we now most ...
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... , who are now here to perform this duty of patriotism , have all of us long ago received it in charge from our fathers to cherish your name and your virtues . You will account it an instance 204 FROM FARM BOY TO SENATOR .
... , who are now here to perform this duty of patriotism , have all of us long ago received it in charge from our fathers to cherish your name and your virtues . You will account it an instance 204 FROM FARM BOY TO SENATOR .
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... patriotic friends here , and I am able to add that it is also the decided opinion of all those friends elsewhere whose judgment in such matters we should naturally regard . I believe I may say , without violating confidence , that it is ...
... patriotic friends here , and I am able to add that it is also the decided opinion of all those friends elsewhere whose judgment in such matters we should naturally regard . I believe I may say , without violating confidence , that it is ...
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Page 255 - 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.
Page 201 - ... country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown, The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...
Page 243 - We have thus heard, sir, what the resolution is, which is actually before us for consideration ; and it will readily occur to every one that it is almost the only subject about which something has not been said in the speech, running through two days, by which the Senate has been now entertained by the gentleman from South Carolina.
Page 247 - Americans all, whose fame is no more to be hemmed in by state lines, than their talents and patriotism were capable of being circumscribed within the same narrow limits. In their day and generation, they served and .honored the country, and the whole country ; and their renown is of the treasures of the whole country. Him whose honored name the gentleman himself bears — does he esteem me less capable of gratitude for his patriotism, or sympathy for his sufferings, than if his eyes had first opened...
Page 204 - Fortunate, fortunate man ! with what measure of devotion will you not thank God for the circumstances of your extraordinary life ! You are connected with both hemispheres and with two generations. Heaven saw fit to ordain, that the electric spark of Liberty should be conducted, through you, from the new world to the old...
Page 203 - CENTURY! when in your youthful days you put every thing at hazard in your country's cause, good as that cause was, and sanguine as youth is, still your fondest hopes did not stretch onward to an hour like this! At a period to which you could not...
Page 197 - Advance, then, ye future generations ! "We would hail you, as you rise in your long succession, to fill the places which we now fill, and to taste the blessings of existence where we are passing, and soon shall have passed, our own human duration. We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers.
Page 292 - Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surface ! Who is so foolish, I beg everybody's pardon, as to expect to see any such thing?
Page 255 - What is all this worth? nor those other words of delusion and folly, 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!
Page 215 - This lovely land, this glorious liberty, these benign institutions, the dear purchase of our fathers, are ours ; ours to enjoy, ours to preserve, ours to transmit. Generations past and generations to come hold us responsible for this sacred trust.