Speeches and Forensic ArgumentsPerkins & Marvin, 1830 - 520 páginas |
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... original scene . We cast our eyes abroad on the ocean , and we see where the little bark , with the interesting group upon its deck , made its slow progress to the shore . We look around us , and behold the hills and promontories ...
... original scene . We cast our eyes abroad on the ocean , and we see where the little bark , with the interesting group upon its deck , made its slow progress to the shore . We look around us , and behold the hills and promontories ...
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... original settlements of this country . Power and dominion were the objects of Rome , even in her colonial establishments . Her whole exterior aspect was for centuries hostile and terrific . She grasped at dominion , from India to ...
... original settlements of this country . Power and dominion were the objects of Rome , even in her colonial establishments . Her whole exterior aspect was for centuries hostile and terrific . She grasped at dominion , from India to ...
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... original principle far back in this claim , on the part of England , to monopolize our trade , and a continued effort on the part of the colonies to resist or evade that monopoly ; if indeed it be not still more just and philosophical ...
... original principle far back in this claim , on the part of England , to monopolize our trade , and a continued effort on the part of the colonies to resist or evade that monopoly ; if indeed it be not still more just and philosophical ...
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... original character of the New England colonies , and certain causes coeval with their existence , have had a strong and decided influence on all their subsequent history , and especially on the great event of the Revolution . Whoever ...
... original character of the New England colonies , and certain causes coeval with their existence , have had a strong and decided influence on all their subsequent history , and especially on the great event of the Revolution . Whoever ...
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... original compact between King and People . The rights of the people to partake in the government , and to limit the monarch by fundamental rules of government , had been main- tained ; and however unjust the government of England might ...
... original compact between King and People . The rights of the people to partake in the government , and to limit the monarch by fundamental rules of government , had been main- tained ; and however unjust the government of England might ...
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Página 80 - ... Resolved, That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Página 84 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object, — this, this is eloquence; or rather, it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, — it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Página 87 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Página 425 - I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing...
Página 425 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Página 452 - It must be confessed, it will be confessed ; there is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession.
Página 452 - Ah, gentlemen ! that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Página 59 - We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object...
Página 425 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind.
Página 85 - Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms ; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to it, and it is ours. Why, then, should we defer the Declaration ? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England, which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties, or safety to his own life and his own honor?