American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Том 2Frank Moore D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... South Carolina , who was subsequently appointed to succeed Mr. Mon- roe , being refused an audience at the Court of France , Mr. Adams , ( who was then President , ) desirous of an amicable and honorable adjustment of the differences ...
... South Carolina , who was subsequently appointed to succeed Mr. Mon- roe , being refused an audience at the Court of France , Mr. Adams , ( who was then President , ) desirous of an amicable and honorable adjustment of the differences ...
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... South gentlemen who have been the objects of his Carolina , was not a member of the House , but favor , by the statement which I have made ; he was one of the most active , efficient and my motive is of an opposite nature . The late ...
... South gentlemen who have been the objects of his Carolina , was not a member of the House , but favor , by the statement which I have made ; he was one of the most active , efficient and my motive is of an opposite nature . The late ...
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... south , have power to medicine to it in the way pro- and bless by decay and extirpation . Let all posed , and in virtue of the diploma which you such beware , lest in their desire for the effect claim , you have also power in the ...
... south , have power to medicine to it in the way pro- and bless by decay and extirpation . Let all posed , and in virtue of the diploma which you such beware , lest in their desire for the effect claim , you have also power in the ...
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... South , between that country and the other portion of this Union , to which I have alluded . When we , roused by the sufferings of our brethren of Boston , entered into the con- test with the mother country , and when we came out of it ...
... South , between that country and the other portion of this Union , to which I have alluded . When we , roused by the sufferings of our brethren of Boston , entered into the con- test with the mother country , and when we came out of it ...
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... South , and will not aid in fixing on us this system of taxa- tion , compared with which the taxation of Mr. Grenville and Lord North was as nothing . I speak with knowledge of what I say , when I declare , that this bill is an attempt ...
... South , and will not aid in fixing on us this system of taxa- tion , compared with which the taxation of Mr. Grenville and Lord North was as nothing . I speak with knowledge of what I say , when I declare , that this bill is an attempt ...
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Страница 345 - 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.
Страница 368 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Страница 196 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Страница 346 - ... repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death; all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is peace. The heights of yonder metropolis, its towers and roofs which you then saw filled with wives and...
Страница 74 - 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...
Страница 21 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Страница 379 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Страница 44 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Страница 377 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Страница 346 - You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown. The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...