Eloquence of the United States, Volume 1E. & H. Clark, 1827 - 517 pages |
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... cause for such a surmise , it was by choosing a representative , who could entertain such an opinion of them . I was under no apprehension , that the good people of this state would behold with displeasure the brightness of the rays of ...
... cause for such a surmise , it was by choosing a representative , who could entertain such an opinion of them . I was under no apprehension , that the good people of this state would behold with displeasure the brightness of the rays of ...
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... causes which I have enumerated , that it is hopeless and impracticable to form a constitu- tion , which will , in every part , be acceptable to every citizen , or even to every government in the United States and that all which can be ...
... causes which I have enumerated , that it is hopeless and impracticable to form a constitu- tion , which will , in every part , be acceptable to every citizen , or even to every government in the United States and that all which can be ...
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... cause ? Did our citizens lose their perseverance and magnanimity ? No. Did they become insensible of resentment and indignation at any high handed attempt , that might have been made to injure or enslave them ? No. What then has been ...
... cause ? Did our citizens lose their perseverance and magnanimity ? No. Did they become insensible of resentment and indignation at any high handed attempt , that might have been made to injure or enslave them ? No. What then has been ...
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... causes of both , and when we have once discovered them , we have begun to search for the means of removing them . For ... cause , and an efficient general government as the only cure of our political distempers . Under these impressions ...
... causes of both , and when we have once discovered them , we have begun to search for the means of removing them . For ... cause , and an efficient general government as the only cure of our political distempers . Under these impressions ...
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... cause of our political weakness , and the consequent calamities of our country . I cannot but infer from this , that there is still some lurking , favorite imagination , that this system , with corrections , might become a safe and ...
... cause of our political weakness , and the consequent calamities of our country . I cannot but infer from this , that there is still some lurking , favorite imagination , that this system , with corrections , might become a safe and ...
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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.