The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasionsC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... present were seated , suddenly gave way and fell with a great crash . Mr. Webster , who was happily unin- jured , was the first person on his feet ; and , supporting himself on some fragments of the staging , announced to the anxious ...
... present were seated , suddenly gave way and fell with a great crash . Mr. Webster , who was happily unin- jured , was the first person on his feet ; and , supporting himself on some fragments of the staging , announced to the anxious ...
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... present , of a worthy man and a war - worn soldier . But it touched a tender point in the public feeling . It naturally roused indignation . What was intended as reproach was immediately seized on as merit . " Be it so ! Be it so ...
... present , of a worthy man and a war - worn soldier . But it touched a tender point in the public feeling . It naturally roused indignation . What was intended as reproach was immediately seized on as merit . " Be it so ! Be it so ...
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... present excitement , and have answered the question I pro- pounded as to the causes of the revolution in public sentiment now in progress . Will this revolution succeed ? Does it move the masses , or is it an ebullition merely on the ...
... present excitement , and have answered the question I pro- pounded as to the causes of the revolution in public sentiment now in progress . Will this revolution succeed ? Does it move the masses , or is it an ebullition merely on the ...
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... present emi- nent and distinguished prosperity , by abandoning the measures , so wise , so beneficent , so successful , and so popular , which the present administration has pursued ! Fellow - citizens , we have all sober and important ...
... present emi- nent and distinguished prosperity , by abandoning the measures , so wise , so beneficent , so successful , and so popular , which the present administration has pursued ! Fellow - citizens , we have all sober and important ...
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... present . We remonstrate , therefore , most earnestly and emphatically , against the policy of the pres- ent administration upon this subject . We protest against the truth of its principles . We deny the propriety and justice of its ...
... present . We remonstrate , therefore , most earnestly and emphatically , against the policy of the pres- ent administration upon this subject . We protest against the truth of its principles . We deny the propriety and justice of its ...
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Страница 235 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Страница 510 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Страница 225 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Страница 510 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Страница 522 - Faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Страница 397 - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Страница 436 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states ; and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists.
Страница 224 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Страница 229 - I now meet you will acquit me from entering into that subject, farther than to refer to the great constitutional charter under which you are assembled, and which in defining your powers, designates the objects to which your attention is to be given. It will be more consistent with those circumstances, and far more congenial with the feelings which actuate me, to substitute in place of a recommendation of particular measures, the tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism,...
Страница 523 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.