Life of Daniel Webster, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1872 |
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... sentiment satisfactorily , he would stand better and stronger and firmer with the South , than he did now . " It appears that the matter which Mr. Cuthbert thought proper to bring forward in this 1 The gentleman finally selected as was ...
... sentiment satisfactorily , he would stand better and stronger and firmer with the South , than he did now . " It appears that the matter which Mr. Cuthbert thought proper to bring forward in this 1 The gentleman finally selected as was ...
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... sentiment , the feeling was fully participated in by them - that , at such a moment , the Senator from Georgia ... sentiments he might at a former time have uttered . He doubted its propriety at any time . The interrogatories to be ...
... sentiment , the feeling was fully participated in by them - that , at such a moment , the Senator from Georgia ... sentiments he might at a former time have uttered . He doubted its propriety at any time . The interrogatories to be ...
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... sentiment here . " I am , dear sir , with much regard , truly yours , you can . " Hon . D. Webster . " " LEW . CASS . The attitude on our side , at the close of Mr. Van Buren's presidency , was not less warlike . On the 13th of February ...
... sentiment here . " I am , dear sir , with much regard , truly yours , you can . " Hon . D. Webster . " " LEW . CASS . The attitude on our side , at the close of Mr. Van Buren's presidency , was not less warlike . On the 13th of February ...
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... sentiments of any public man on any subject whatever . From 1819 to the day of the nomination , those sentiments had been expressed and repeated in all forms , both in and out of Congress . The convention nominated both these gentlemen ...
... sentiments of any public man on any subject whatever . From 1819 to the day of the nomination , those sentiments had been expressed and repeated in all forms , both in and out of Congress . The convention nominated both these gentlemen ...
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... sentiments of the President had gone ; they knew the opinions of certain Whig members of Congress , especially in the Senate , whose votes could not be spared ; they felt that both the good of the country and the preservation of the ...
... sentiments of the President had gone ; they knew the opinions of certain Whig members of Congress , especially in the Senate , whose votes could not be spared ; they felt that both the good of the country and the preservation of the ...
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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