Eloquence of the United States, Volume 1E. & H. Clark, 1827 - 517 pages |
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Page viii
... the Aggressions and Encroachments of France ; in the House of Representatives of the United States , May 29 , 1797 , 332 · 352 : 396 • 425 464 471 SPEECH OF JAMES WILSON , ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF ADOPTING viii CONTENTS .
... the Aggressions and Encroachments of France ; in the House of Representatives of the United States , May 29 , 1797 , 332 · 352 : 396 • 425 464 471 SPEECH OF JAMES WILSON , ON THE EXPEDIENCY OF ADOPTING viii CONTENTS .
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... France , Hol- land , and other nations : how were they made ? Were they not made by the states ? Are the people , therefore , in their aggregate capacity , the proper per- sons to form a confederacy ? This , therefore , ought to depend ...
... France , Hol- land , and other nations : how were they made ? Were they not made by the states ? Are the people , therefore , in their aggregate capacity , the proper per- sons to form a confederacy ? This , therefore , ought to depend ...
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... France , in search of a splendid government - a strong , energetic government . Shall we imitate the example of those nations , who have gone from a simple to a splendid government ? Are those nations more worthy of our imitation ? What ...
... France , in search of a splendid government - a strong , energetic government . Shall we imitate the example of those nations , who have gone from a simple to a splendid government ? Are those nations more worthy of our imitation ? What ...
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... France and Germany , during that long period . The Swiss spirit , sir , has kept them together : they have encoun ... France , and made a quotation from Ad- dison , illustrating the subject . ] Look at the peasants of that country , and ...
... France and Germany , during that long period . The Swiss spirit , sir , has kept them together : they have encoun ... France , and made a quotation from Ad- dison , illustrating the subject . ] Look at the peasants of that country , and ...
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... France : let us suppose Virginia separated from the other states : as part of the former confederated states , she will owe France a very considerable sum - France will be as magnanimous as ever . France , by the law of nations , will ...
... France : let us suppose Virginia separated from the other states : as part of the former confederated states , she will owe France a very considerable sum - France will be as magnanimous as ever . France , by the law of nations , will ...
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Page 451 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 84 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security, of the people, nation, or community...
Page 253 - I have, in obedience to the publick summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States, a government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may...
Page ii - In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned.
Page 91 - That all power of suspending laws, or the execution of laws, by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, is injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
Page 95 - If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute! The army is in his hands, and if he be a man of address, it will be attached to him, and it will be the subject of long meditation with him to seize the first auspicious moment to accomplish his design...
Page 466 - If a preference, upon principle, of a free republican government, formed upon long and serious reflection, after a diligent and impartial inquiry after truth ; if an attachment to the constitution of the United States, and a conscientious determination to support it...
Page 94 - This constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful: among other deformities it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy; and does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American...
Page 454 - On this subject you need not suspect any deception on your feelings. It is a spectacle of horror, which cannot be overdrawn.
Page 450 - It is painful, I hope it is superfluous, to make even the supposition, that America should furnish the occasion of this opprobrium. No, let me not even imagine, that a republican government, sprung, as our own is, from a people enlightened and uncorrupted, a government whose origin is right, and whose daily discipline is duty, can, upon solemn debate, make its option to be faithless; can dare to act what despots dare not avow, what our own example evinces the states of Barbary are unsuspected of.