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" I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It... "
Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 424
by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pages
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The World's Progress ...

Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 pages
...essential importance to the public happiness. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country,...makes us most proud of our country. That Union we readied only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin...
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Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)

Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 478 pages
...essential importance to the public happiness. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the perservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration...
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Selections for Oral Reading

Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 pages
...spot of its origin. THE AMERICAN UNION 15 I PROFESS, Sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country,...consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union we are chiefly 20 indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only...
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The Manhattan Quarterly, Volume 10

1914 - 370 pages
...like fiction than fact. It was their loyalty that gave us this great country. It is to that loyalty that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. Our territory has spread far and wide, and our population has spread farther and wider. To-day we stand...
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American History for Grammar Schools, Part 2

Marguerite Dickson - 1915 - 402 pages
...it moves us to-day, showing what the Union meant or ought to mean to the people of all the states. " It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and...for whatever makes us most proud of our country." And then came that wonderful appeal for the preservation of the Union — "When my eyes shall be turned...
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Washington's Farewell Address, and Webster's Bunker Hill Orations

George Washington - 1915 - 216 pages
...undermined, nullified, it will not be." ... "I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union." When the majestic personality and the supreme object in life of the two men are clearly understood,...
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American Literature Through Illustrative Readings

Sarah Emma Simons - 1915 - 492 pages
...UNION (From Webster's Reply to Hayne) I profess, Sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity, and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. . . . I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the...
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First Lessons in American History

Samuel Eagle Forman - 1916 - 376 pages
...in any way. In one of his speeches he said : " It is to the Union we owe our safety at home and our dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly...indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. While the Union lasts we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us. When my eyes...
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American Ideals

Norman Foerster, William Whatley Pierson, William Whatley Pierson (Jr.) - 1917 - 344 pages
...essential importance to the public happiness. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country,...indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. The Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It has...
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American Ideals

Norman Foerster - 1917 - 444 pages
...essential importance to the public happiness. I profess, sir, in my career hitherto to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country,...abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted t. u_i_Trer makeg us most proud of our country. The ached only by the discipline of our virtues in...
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