American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 3Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1845 |
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... honor or profit were the meed , I did not press into the field of pretension ; and being in a state of apathy as to the political parties , I declined enlisting with either . . . . Among a number of newly introduced maxims of ...
... honor or profit were the meed , I did not press into the field of pretension ; and being in a state of apathy as to the political parties , I declined enlisting with either . . . . Among a number of newly introduced maxims of ...
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... honor ? If yon [ you ] can - Go and carry with you , the jest of Tories , and the scorn of Whigs — the ridicule , and what is worse - the pity of the world . - Go starve and be forgotten . But if your spirits should revolt at this , if ...
... honor ? If yon [ you ] can - Go and carry with you , the jest of Tories , and the scorn of Whigs — the ridicule , and what is worse - the pity of the world . - Go starve and be forgotten . But if your spirits should revolt at this , if ...
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... honor to give you an account in my last despatch , have since been the constant subject of the deliberations of congress . The southern states had vainly flattered themselves that they could detach Pennsylvania and New Jersey from the ...
... honor to give you an account in my last despatch , have since been the constant subject of the deliberations of congress . The southern states had vainly flattered themselves that they could detach Pennsylvania and New Jersey from the ...
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... honor thus far of explaining to you merely the osten- sible arguments of the two parties ; but a long acquaintance with the affairs of this country authorizes me , perhaps , to divine the secret motives of the heat with which each state ...
... honor thus far of explaining to you merely the osten- sible arguments of the two parties ; but a long acquaintance with the affairs of this country authorizes me , perhaps , to divine the secret motives of the heat with which each state ...
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... honor , and policy of nations . If we , who have contracted debts , were influenced only by motives of sound policy , we should pay them as soon as pos- sible , and provide sure and adequate funds for the payment of interest in the mean ...
... honor , and policy of nations . If we , who have contracted debts , were influenced only by motives of sound policy , we should pay them as soon as pos- sible , and provide sure and adequate funds for the payment of interest in the mean ...
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Page 478 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 327 - 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 xxi - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 432 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 311 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Page 518 - 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 329 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith ; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Page 530 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 403 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 328 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.