The Life and Speeches of Henry Clay ...Greeley & McElrath, 1842 |
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... whole case to the jury he had no more to say , and abruptly left the room . Of course the Court soon summoned him back and allowed him to pursue his own course . He now , with re- doubled vehemence , renewed his argument , and gained a ...
... whole case to the jury he had no more to say , and abruptly left the room . Of course the Court soon summoned him back and allowed him to pursue his own course . He now , with re- doubled vehemence , renewed his argument , and gained a ...
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... whole to his associate counsel . Two days were spent upon the ar- gument , and Mr. CLAY's colleague had been foiled at every point . Just as the trial was about to close Mr. CLAY entered the Court ; and , though he knew next to nothing ...
... whole to his associate counsel . Two days were spent upon the ar- gument , and Mr. CLAY's colleague had been foiled at every point . Just as the trial was about to close Mr. CLAY entered the Court ; and , though he knew next to nothing ...
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... whole course of his life , failed at the bar to obtain a decision in favor of one whose cause he had espoused . The same impulsive love of freedom , and hatred of any encroachment upon its just enjoyment , which led Mr. CLAY into this ...
... whole course of his life , failed at the bar to obtain a decision in favor of one whose cause he had espoused . The same impulsive love of freedom , and hatred of any encroachment upon its just enjoyment , which led Mr. CLAY into this ...
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... whole matter was soon dropped in the Legislature , as too frivolous to call for further notice ; and the sympathies of the people were strongly enlisted against the agents in this attempt to blast the character , and ruin the fortunes ...
... whole matter was soon dropped in the Legislature , as too frivolous to call for further notice ; and the sympathies of the people were strongly enlisted against the agents in this attempt to blast the character , and ruin the fortunes ...
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... whole exertions were directed . He showed clearly , and with prevailing force , that previous to this time both nations were one , and that a rejection of the former le gal decisions of Great Britain would be in effect the rejection of ...
... whole exertions were directed . He showed clearly , and with prevailing force , that previous to this time both nations were one , and that a rejection of the former le gal decisions of Great Britain would be in effect the rejection of ...
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Страница 57 - Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations and these accumulating wrongs, or, opposing force to force in defense of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of Events...
Страница 291 - His Catholic Majesty cedes to the United States, in full property and sovereignty, all the territories which belong to him, situated to the eastward of the Mississippi, known by the name of East and West Florida.
Страница 14 - Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war ! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats The .immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, Farewell ! Othello's occupation's gone ! logo.
Страница 7 - ... best adapted. I submit to Congress the seasonableness also, of an authority to augment the stock of such materials, as are imperishable in their nature, or may not at once be attainable.
Страница 57 - In the establishment of the independence of Spanish America, the United States have the deepest interest. I have no hesitation in asserting my firm belief that there is no question in the foreign policy of this country, which has ever arisen, or which I can conceive as ever occurring, in the decision of which we have had or can have so much at stake.
Страница 107 - Chairman, belongs the high privilege of transmitting, unimpaired, to posterity, the fair character and liberty of our country. Do you expect to execute this high trust, by trampling, or suffering to be trampled down, law, justice, the constitution, and the rights of other people ? By exhibiting examples of inhumanity, and cruelty and ambition?
Страница 191 - ... the performance of their public duties, but as a means of private subsistence ; by the reluctant resort to the perilous use of paper money ; by the intervention of legislation in the delicate relation between debtor and creditor ; and, above all, by the low and depressed state of the value of almost every description of the whole mass of the property of the nation, which has, on an average, sunk not less than about fifty per centum within a few years.
Страница 8 - In 1801, he snatched from the rude hand of usurpation the violated constitution of his country, and that is his crime. He preserved that instrument, in form, and substance, and spirit, a precious inheritance for generations to come, and for this he can never be forgiven. How vain and impotent is party rage, directed against such a man! He...
Страница 197 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Страница 142 - A right to impose duties to be paid by all persons passing a certain road, and on horses and carriages, as is done by this bill, involves the right to take the land from the proprietor, on a valuation, and to pass laws for the protection of the road from injuries ; and if it exist as to one road, it exists as to any other, and to as many roads as Congress may think proper to establish.