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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... question is , whether the acts of the 27th of June , and of the 18th and 26th of December , 1816 , are valid and binding on the rights of the plaintiffs , without their accept- ance or assent . The charter of 1769 created and ...
... question is , whether the acts of the 27th of June , and of the 18th and 26th of December , 1816 , are valid and binding on the rights of the plaintiffs , without their accept- ance or assent . The charter of 1769 created and ...
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... question . The first act makes the twelve trustees under the charter , and nine other individuals , to be appointed by the governor and council , a corporation , by a new name ; and to this new corporation transfers all the property ...
... question . The first act makes the twelve trustees under the charter , and nine other individuals , to be appointed by the governor and council , a corporation , by a new name ; and to this new corporation transfers all the property ...
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... question of constitutional right . Not only are new trustees forced into the corporation , but new trusts and uses are created . The college is turned into a university . Power is given to create new colleges , and , to authorize any ...
... question of constitutional right . Not only are new trustees forced into the corporation , but new trusts and uses are created . The college is turned into a university . Power is given to create new colleges , and , to authorize any ...
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... question , whether these acts are repugnant to the constitution of the United States . Yet it may assist in forming an opinion of their true nature and character to com- pare them with those fundamental principles introduced into the ...
... question , whether these acts are repugnant to the constitution of the United States . Yet it may assist in forming an opinion of their true nature and character to com- pare them with those fundamental principles introduced into the ...
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... question was a charter of political power ; 2d . That there was a great and overruling state necessity , justifying the violation of the charter ; 3d . That the charter had been abused and justly forfeited . * The bill affecting this ...
... question was a charter of political power ; 2d . That there was a great and overruling state necessity , justifying the violation of the charter ; 3d . That the charter had been abused and justly forfeited . * The bill affecting this ...
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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...