Webster and His Master-pieces, Volume 2Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854 Vol. 1 comprises a biography of Daniel Webster; v. 2 consists of speeches and writings by Webster. |
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... decide by act . It shall not deprive by act . But it shall leave all these things to be tried and adjudged by the law of the land . The fifteenth article has been referred to before . It declares that no one shall be " deprived of his ...
... decide by act . It shall not deprive by act . But it shall leave all these things to be tried and adjudged by the law of the land . The fifteenth article has been referred to before . It declares that no one shall be " deprived of his ...
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... decide our position and our course , before we have even time to ask whether we have an option . Our place is on the side of free institutions . From the earliest settlement of these states , their inhabitants were accustomed , in a ...
... decide our position and our course , before we have even time to ask whether we have an option . Our place is on the side of free institutions . From the earliest settlement of these states , their inhabitants were accustomed , in a ...
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... decide whether the example be good or bad ? And what , under the operation of such rule , may be thought of our example ? Why are we not as fair objects for the operation of the new principle , as any of those who may attempt to reform ...
... decide whether the example be good or bad ? And what , under the operation of such rule , may be thought of our example ? Why are we not as fair objects for the operation of the new principle , as any of those who may attempt to reform ...
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... decide whether the tie which had so long bound us to the parent state was to be severed at once , and severed forever . All the colonies had sig- nified their resolution to abide by this decision , and the people looked for it with the ...
... decide whether the tie which had so long bound us to the parent state was to be severed at once , and severed forever . All the colonies had sig- nified their resolution to abide by this decision , and the people looked for it with the ...
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... decide for himself whether our present difficulties have or have not arisen from attempts to extend the executive authority . In giv- ing this detail , I shall be compelled to speak of the late bank of the United States ; but I shall ...
... decide for himself whether our present difficulties have or have not arisen from attempts to extend the executive authority . In giv- ing this detail , I shall be compelled to speak of the late bank of the United States ; but I shall ...
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Page 408 - 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 256 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 256 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground ? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Page 479 - It has a preamble, and that preamble expressly recites, that the duties which it imposes are laid " for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures.
Page 202 - Resolved, That the Declaration, passed on the fourth, be fairly engrossed on parchment, with the title and style of ' THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ' ; and that the same, when engrossed be signed by every member of Congress.
Page 424 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 249 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 204 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object — this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action/ In July 1776, the controversy had passed the stage of argument.
Page 160 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Page 408 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over...