Life of Daniel Webster, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1872 |
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... regard to the Treaty , and the Right of Search - Official Rebuke -Private Correspondence between General Cass and Mr. Webster - Survey of the Northeastern Boundary , 130-205 CHAPTER XXX . 1843-1844 . Resigns the Department of State ...
... regard to the Treaty , and the Right of Search - Official Rebuke -Private Correspondence between General Cass and Mr. Webster - Survey of the Northeastern Boundary , 130-205 CHAPTER XXX . 1843-1844 . Resigns the Department of State ...
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... regard to its Prosecution - Inquiries about the Speech imputed to John Adams - Correspondence , 252-297 CHAPTER XXXIII . 1846-1847 . Public Banquet in Philadelphia - Speech on the Oregon Controversy and the Mexican War - Introduction of ...
... regard to its Prosecution - Inquiries about the Speech imputed to John Adams - Correspondence , 252-297 CHAPTER XXXIII . 1846-1847 . Public Banquet in Philadelphia - Speech on the Oregon Controversy and the Mexican War - Introduction of ...
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... regard to the New Territories - Mr . Webster's View of the Course proper to be pursued - Debates on Constitutional Questions - Business in the Supreme Court - Deaths of a Grandchild and of Mrs. Thomas - Visit to Vir- ginia - Return to ...
... regard to the New Territories - Mr . Webster's View of the Course proper to be pursued - Debates on Constitutional Questions - Business in the Supreme Court - Deaths of a Grandchild and of Mrs. Thomas - Visit to Vir- ginia - Return to ...
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... regard to political objects , is a thing to be thought of seri- ously , and about which friends must be consulted . The events which are likely to happen before I return to the United States , will probably throw light on my path . " We ...
... regard to political objects , is a thing to be thought of seri- ously , and about which friends must be consulted . The events which are likely to happen before I return to the United States , will probably throw light on my path . " We ...
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... regard to the relations between the different races in Canada , in which that statesman had laid down the general proposition that no two distinct races can live together harmoniously in the same country without the one being in some ...
... regard to the relations between the different races in Canada , in which that statesman had laid down the general proposition that no two distinct races can live together harmoniously in the same country without the one being in some ...
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Administration affairs American annexation believe bill BLATCHFORD Boston boundary British called candidate cause character citizens claim Clay Congress Constitution convention course DAN'L DANIEL WEBSTER DEAR SIR declared desire dispatch duty England Everett expressed Faneuil Hall favor feel Fillmore FLETCHER WEBSTER friends fugitive gentlemen give Government honor hope House important interest leave letter Lobos Islands Lord Aberdeen Lord Ashburton Lord Palmerston March Marshfield Massachusetts matter measure ment Mexico minister morning negotiation never nomination North o'clock object occasion opinion passed peace political present President principles purpose question received regard relations resolution respect right of search Secretary Senate sentiments session settled slave slavery South Southern speech statesman ster supposed Taylor territory Texas thing thought tion to-day treaty Treaty of Washington truly Union United vote Washington Whig party whole Wilmot Proviso wish York
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Página 463 - I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country's, my God's and truth's. I was born an American ; I live an American ; I shall die an American ; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career.
Página 370 - The constitution vests the whole judicial power of the United States in one Supreme Court, and such inferior courts as congress shall, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Página 409 - And now, Mr. President, instead of speaking of the possibility or utility of secession, instead of dwelling in those caverns of darkness, instead of groping with those ideas so full of all that is horrid and horrible, let us come out into the light of...
Página 409 - In all its history it has been beneficent; it has trodden down no man's liberty ; it has crushed no State. Its daily respiration is liberty and patriotism ; its yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable love of glory and renown. Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth across the whole continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the...
Página 412 - It is time, Senators, that there should be an open and manly avowal on all sides as to what is intended to be done. If the question is not now settled, it is uncertain whether it ever can hereafter be; and we as the representatives of the States of this Union, regarded as governments, should come to a distinct understanding as to our respective views in order to ascertain whether the great questions at issue can be settled or not. If you who represent the stronger portion...
Página 406 - Sir, he who sees these States, now revolving in harmony around a common centre, and expects to see them quit their places and fly off without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe.
Página 21 - As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world. The tanned complexion, that amorphous crag-like face ; the dull black eyes under their precipice of brows, like dull anthracite furnaces, needing only to be blown; the mastiff -mouth, accurately closed: — I have not traced as much of silent Berserkir-rage, that I remember of, in any other man.
Página 408 - I do not deem myself so competent as other gentlemen to take any lead on this subject, that if any gentleman from the South shall propose a scheme to be carried on by this government upon a large scale for the transportation of free colored people to any colony or any place in the world, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object.
Página 372 - California even mentioned after its annexation, until the Act of March 3, 1849, extending the revenue laws of the United States "over the territory and waters of Upper California, and to create certain collection districts therein.
Página 220 - Everybody knows the morning in its metaphorical sense, applied to so many objects and on so many occasions. The health, strength, and beauty of early years lead us to call that period the