Life of William PlumerPhillips, Sampson, 1856 - 543 páginas |
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Adams adopted afterwards amendments appointed Arthur Livermore attend authority candidate character Chief Justice client committee Congress considered constitution convention conversation doubt duty early elected England Epping Exeter father favor Federal Federalists feeling felt friends gave Governor Plumer Hampshire honor House influence interest Jefferson Jeremiah Mason John Langdon John Quincy Adams Judge June jury knew labor Langdon lawyer Legislature less letter Livermore March Mason Massachusetts measures ment mind Nathaniel Peabody never object occasion once opinion opponents opposed Paine Wingate party period person political Portsmouth practice preacher present President profession proposed question received religious Republicans respect Roger Griswold says seat seemed Senate sense session Smith speech strong Sullivan Superior Court talents Theophilus Parsons thought tion told took town trial Union Uriah Tracy vote Webster WILLIAM PLUMER Woodbury Langdon writes
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Página 112 - No person shall be deprived of the inestimable privilege of worshipping Almighty God in a manner agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience...
Página 419 - But in cases of deliberate, dangerous, and palpable infractions of the Constitution, affecting the sovereignty of a State, and liberties of the people ; it is not only the right but the duty of such a State to interpose its authority for their protection, in the manner best calculated to secure that end.
Página 412 - If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Página 251 - ... the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its...
Página 436 - The idea that institutions established for the use of the nation cannot be touched or modified, even to make them answer their end, because of rights gratuitously supposed in those employed to manage them in the trust for the public, may perhaps be a salutary provision against the abuses of a monarch, but is most absurd against the nation itself.
Página 276 - ... 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.
Página 259 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union.
Página 418 - They may be found to proceed, not merely from the blindness of prejudice, pride of opinion, violence of party spirit, or the confusion of the times; but they may be traced to implacable combinations of individuals or of states to...
Página 40 - We the subscribers, do hereby Solemnly engage and promise, that we will to the utmost of our Power, at the Risque of our Lives and Fortunes, with Arms oppose the Hostile Proceedings of the British Fleets and Armies against the United American Colonies.
Página 303 - I will here express but one sentiment, which is, that DISMEMBERMENT of our EMPIRE will be a clear sacrifice of great positive advantages, without any counterbalancing good ; administering no relief to our real disease, which is DEMOCRACY ; the poison of which, by a subdivision, will only be the more concentred in each part, and consequently the more virulent.