American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 531 páginas |
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... amendments . When I come to contemplate this part , I suppose that I am mad , or that my coun- trymen are so . The way to amendment is , in my conception , shut . Let us consider this plain , easy way . " The congress , whenever two ...
... amendments . When I come to contemplate this part , I suppose that I am mad , or that my coun- trymen are so . The way to amendment is , in my conception , shut . Let us consider this plain , easy way . " The congress , whenever two ...
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... amendments ? Two thirds of the congress , or of the state legis- latures , are necessary even to propose amendments . If one third of these be unworthy men , they may prevent the application for amendments ; but a destructive and ...
... amendments ? Two thirds of the congress , or of the state legis- latures , are necessary even to propose amendments . If one third of these be unworthy men , they may prevent the application for amendments ; but a destructive and ...
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... amendments are left to the twentieth , or to the tenth part of the people of America , your liberty is gone forever . We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practised in the house of commons in England ; and that many of ...
... amendments are left to the twentieth , or to the tenth part of the people of America , your liberty is gone forever . We have heard that there is a great deal of bribery practised in the house of commons in England ; and that many of ...
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... amended ; since I have already shown , that a very small minority may prevent it , and that small minority in- terested in the continuance of the oppression . Will the oppressor let go the oppressed ? Was there ever an instance ? Can ...
... amended ; since I have already shown , that a very small minority may prevent it , and that small minority in- terested in the continuance of the oppression . Will the oppressor let go the oppressed ? Was there ever an instance ? Can ...
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... amended , we can never accept it . The adopting states will doubtless accept our money and our regiments ; and what is to be the consequence , if we are disunited ? I believe that it is yet doubtful , whether it is not proper to stand ...
... amended , we can never accept it . The adopting states will doubtless accept our money and our regiments ; and what is to be the consequence , if we are disunited ? I believe that it is yet doubtful , whether it is not proper to stand ...
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Página 300 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 15 - ... we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight ! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us ! They tell us, sir, that we are weak ; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Página 15 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest; there is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains- are forged ; their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston; the war is inevitable, and let it come; I repeat it, sir, — let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace! But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding...
Página 21 - That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Página 437 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the 2 morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Página 198 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Página 437 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests.
Página 53 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 14 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Página 492 - Are not you, sir, who sit in that chair, is not he, our venerable colleague near you, are you not both already the proscribed...