A Memoir of the Life of Daniel WebsterStimpson and Clapp, 1831 - 234 страница |
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... favor of them served to defeat the bill , which was done on a third reading , the same day . This speech of Mr. Webster is remarkable for a profound knowledge of the principles on which the banks of the Old World had been founded , and ...
... favor of them served to defeat the bill , which was done on a third reading , the same day . This speech of Mr. Webster is remarkable for a profound knowledge of the principles on which the banks of the Old World had been founded , and ...
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... favor of Goodrich , and he was going on triumphantly to convict the pris- oners , when some singularities of his story gave rise to suspicions , that all was not right . A few were deter- mined , that the prisoners should be well ...
... favor of Goodrich , and he was going on triumphantly to convict the pris- oners , when some singularities of his story gave rise to suspicions , that all was not right . A few were deter- mined , that the prisoners should be well ...
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... favor of the validity and constitutionality of the acts of the Legislature , and judgment was accordingly en- tered up for the defendant . Thereupon , a writ of error was sued out by the plaintiffs in the original suit , and the cause ...
... favor of the validity and constitutionality of the acts of the Legislature , and judgment was accordingly en- tered up for the defendant . Thereupon , a writ of error was sued out by the plaintiffs in the original suit , and the cause ...
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... favor of one because he is a Christian , and against the other because he is not . They may repeat this preference at the next election , on the same ground , and may continue it from year to year . Now , if the people may , without ...
... favor of one because he is a Christian , and against the other because he is not . They may repeat this preference at the next election , on the same ground , and may continue it from year to year . Now , if the people may , without ...
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... favor- able to civil liberty , and receive and deserve great atten- tion , whenever referred to . Indeed , Massachusetts her- self knows , by her own history , what is to be expected from dependent judges . Her own charter was declared ...
... favor- able to civil liberty , and receive and deserve great atten- tion , whenever referred to . Indeed , Massachusetts her- self knows , by her own history , what is to be expected from dependent judges . Her own charter was declared ...
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Страница 80 - 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.
Страница 162 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now. and forever, one and inseparable.
Страница 160 - I profess, sir, in my career, hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union.
Страница 151 - Resolved, That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire and report the quantity of public lands remaining unsold within each State and Territory, and whether it be expedient to limit for a certain period the sales of the public lands...
Страница 79 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech further than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
Страница 160 - Mr. President, I have thus stated the reasons of my dissent to the doctrines which have been advanced and maintained. I am conscious of having detained you and the Senate much too long. I was drawn into the debate with no previous deliberation, such as is suited to the discussion 197 of so grave and important a subject.
Страница 127 - Hall, as far as I now remember, was that this was originally matter of doubtful construction. The gentleman himself, I suppose, thinks there is no doubt about it, and that the laws are plainly against the Constitution. Mr. Madison's letters already referred to contain, in my judgment, by far the most able exposition extant of this part of the Constitution. He has satisfied me, so far as the practice of the government had left it an open question. With a great majority of the Representatives of Massachusetts,...
Страница 36 - Each individual of the society has a right to be protected by it in the enjoyment of his life, liberty and property, according to standing laws.
Страница 156 - I understand him to maintain an authority, on the part of the States, thus to interfere, for the purpose of correcting the exercise of power by the general government, of checking it and of compelling it to conform to their opinion of the extent of its powers. I understand him to maintain that the ultimate...
Страница 159 - But while the people choose to maintain it as it is, while they are satisfied with it and refuse to change it, who has given or who can give to the State legislatures a right to alter it, either by interference, construction, or otherwise ? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves.