American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, Volume 2D. Appleton & Company, 1878 |
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... Argument in the Trial of John F. Knapp , . 899 205 JOSEPH STORY : Sketch of his Life , • 422 ( ANSFER FROM Sketch of his Life , Speech on the Alien Bill , 218 Discourse before the Phi Beta Kappa Society 220 Argument against Capital ...
... Argument in the Trial of John F. Knapp , . 899 205 JOSEPH STORY : Sketch of his Life , • 422 ( ANSFER FROM Sketch of his Life , Speech on the Alien Bill , 218 Discourse before the Phi Beta Kappa Society 220 Argument against Capital ...
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... argument prove that in his own conception , previous amendments cannot be had ? for , sir , if subse- quent amendments cannot be obtained , shall we get amendments before we ratify ? The reasons against the latter do not apply against ...
... argument prove that in his own conception , previous amendments cannot be had ? for , sir , if subse- quent amendments cannot be obtained , shall we get amendments before we ratify ? The reasons against the latter do not apply against ...
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... argument which has been de- Bayard , against the resolutions now under con- livered by the gentleman from Delaware , Mr. sideration . I had not expected that the effect of this argument would have been universal ; but I had cherished ...
... argument which has been de- Bayard , against the resolutions now under con- livered by the gentleman from Delaware , Mr. sideration . I had not expected that the effect of this argument would have been universal ; but I had cherished ...
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... argument of the the construction contended for by the friends gentleman from Pennsylvania , the American of the resolutions . But will it be pretended courts could have taken no cognizance of the that a person can commit misprision of ...
... argument of the the construction contended for by the friends gentleman from Pennsylvania , the American of the resolutions . But will it be pretended courts could have taken no cognizance of the that a person can commit misprision of ...
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... argument is the determination of the late President on the case of prizes made within the jurisdiction of the United States , or by privateers fitted out in their ports . The nation was bound to deliver up those prizes in like manner ...
... argument is the determination of the late President on the case of prizes made within the jurisdiction of the United States , or by privateers fitted out in their ports . The nation was bound to deliver up those prizes in like manner ...
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Page 393 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 385 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people ; and answerable to the people.
Page 383 - If discord and disunion shall wound it, if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it, if folly and madness, if uneasiness under salutary and necessary restraint, shall succeed in separating it from that Union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if fall...
Page 393 - 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 358 - Venerable men, you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are, indeed, over your heads; the same ocean rolla at your feet; but all else, how changed!
Page 204 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 382 - I claim them for countrymen, one and all, the Laurenses, the Rutledges, the Pinckneys, the Sumpters, the Marions, 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.
Page 369 - that, after the year 1800, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been convicted.
Page 79 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States...
Page 358 - Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit.