American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, Volume 2D. Appleton & Company, 1878 |
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... votes of the electors be influenced ? By nothing but the character and conduct of the man they vote for . What object can influence them when about choosing him ? They have nothing to direct them in the choice but their own good . Have ...
... votes of the electors be influenced ? By nothing but the character and conduct of the man they vote for . What object can influence them when about choosing him ? They have nothing to direct them in the choice but their own good . Have ...
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... vote against it , returned to their constituents without determining the question , to convince them of their being mistaken , and of the pro- priety of adopting it . The extent of the country is urged as another objection , as being ...
... vote against it , returned to their constituents without determining the question , to convince them of their being mistaken , and of the pro- priety of adopting it . The extent of the country is urged as another objection , as being ...
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... voting on this question . A law passed in 1782 , which secures this . He says that many poor men may be harassed and injured by the representatives of Lord Fairfax . If he has no right , this cannot be done . If he has this right , and ...
... voting on this question . A law passed in 1782 , which secures this . He says that many poor men may be harassed and injured by the representatives of Lord Fairfax . If he has no right , this cannot be done . If he has this right , and ...
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... vote of the legislature , a delegate to the Continental Congress , from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; and on the sixth of December , joined that body , then in session at Trenton , New Jersey . In 1785 and 1786 , he was reëlected ...
... vote of the legislature , a delegate to the Continental Congress , from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; and on the sixth of December , joined that body , then in session at Trenton , New Jersey . In 1785 and 1786 , he was reëlected ...
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... votes of their delegates in the old Congress , approved of the ordinance of 1787 , by which slavery is for ever abolished in the territory northwest of the river Ohio . Without the votes of these States , the ordi- nance could not have ...
... votes of their delegates in the old Congress , approved of the ordinance of 1787 , by which slavery is for ever abolished in the territory northwest of the river Ohio . Without the votes of these States , the ordi- nance could not have ...
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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.