The Proceedings of the Union Meeting: Held at Brewster's Hall, December 24, 1850W. H. Stanley, 1851 - 48 pages |
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... blessings resulting from the free government our ancestors gave us ? Is there a nation on earth whose government can compare with it ? Is not the happiness of countless myriads centered in this gov- ernment ? Suppose that by continued ...
... blessings resulting from the free government our ancestors gave us ? Is there a nation on earth whose government can compare with it ? Is not the happiness of countless myriads centered in this gov- ernment ? Suppose that by continued ...
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... blessings which surrounded us and the happy situation in which we have been placed . Sir , I look to the example which this country is to afford to other nations ; I have looked with proud anticipation to the time when the principles of ...
... blessings which surrounded us and the happy situation in which we have been placed . Sir , I look to the example which this country is to afford to other nations ; I have looked with proud anticipation to the time when the principles of ...
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... blessings which flow day after day ? It is to the Constitu- tion of the United States - that Constitution which was form- ed by men of as pure minds as ever lived in any country . The Constitution is a system of compromises . What does ...
... blessings which flow day after day ? It is to the Constitu- tion of the United States - that Constitution which was form- ed by men of as pure minds as ever lived in any country . The Constitution is a system of compromises . What does ...
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... blessings , and submissive to its evils , till by some prac ticable change , it can be made better instead of immeasurably worse ? We may , we do , most sincerely commiserate their condition as compared with a better . We wish and pray ...
... blessings , and submissive to its evils , till by some prac ticable change , it can be made better instead of immeasurably worse ? We may , we do , most sincerely commiserate their condition as compared with a better . We wish and pray ...
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... blessings it gives them . ( Cheers . ) I say again , let us stand by the Constitution and the law , and as some one has said , as near as I can remember , " I would not merely protect it with the shield of honest Ajax , I would protect ...
... blessings it gives them . ( Cheers . ) I say again , let us stand by the Constitution and the law , and as some one has said , as near as I can remember , " I would not merely protect it with the shield of honest Ajax , I would protect ...
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Page 47 - ... 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 ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe...
Page 18 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 47 - Unioh ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced...
Page 48 - What is all this worth?" nor those other words of delusion and folly, "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 heaven, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 22 - It is also agreed that if any servant run away from his master into any other of these confederated Jurisdictions, that in such case, upon the certificate of one magistrate in the Jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled, or upon other due proof; the said servant shall be delivered, either to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate or proof.
Page 37 - ... human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing. — On superior...
Page 35 - Resolved, That we regard our obligations to the Constitution and the Union as superior to the ties of any of the political parties to which we may hitherto have belonged, and that on all future occasions we 'will range ourselves under the banners of that party whose principles and practice are most calculated to uphold the Constitution, and to perpetuate our glorious Union.
Page 35 - Its sentiment is my sentiment. 'With you, I declare that I "range myself under the banners of that party whose principles and practice are most calculated to uphold the Constitution, and to perpetuate our glorious Union.
Page 26 - ... telling us. What we are to be, the future will tell to those who are to come after us, to their joy or sorrow, as we cherish or reject the blessings we enjoy. If we are not struck with judicial blindness, as...
Page 47 - When my eyes shall be turned for the last time to behold 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.