The Works of Daniel Webster: Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts, and speeches in CongressCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1851 |
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... should keep in it an expression of our respect and attachment to Christianity ; -not , indeed , to any of its peculiar forms , but to its general principles . BASIS OF THE OF THE SENATE . * I KNOW QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE . 7.
... should keep in it an expression of our respect and attachment to Christianity ; -not , indeed , to any of its peculiar forms , but to its general principles . BASIS OF THE OF THE SENATE . * I KNOW QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE . 7.
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... principle , without being influenced by any regard to its local ap- plication . I do not inquire whether the senators whom this principle brings into the government will come from the county of Suffolk , from the valley of the ...
... principle , without being influenced by any regard to its local ap- plication . I do not inquire whether the senators whom this principle brings into the government will come from the county of Suffolk , from the valley of the ...
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... principle or provision in government is experience ; and of all experience , our own , if it have been long enough to give the principle a fair trial , should be most decisive . This provision has existed for forty years , and while so ...
... principle or provision in government is experience ; and of all experience , our own , if it have been long enough to give the principle a fair trial , should be most decisive . This provision has existed for forty years , and while so ...
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... be the first writer who has illustrated and expanded the principle , and given to it the * Spence's Anecdotes of Books and Men , p . 75 . effect and prominence which justly belong to it . To 14 CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS .
... be the first writer who has illustrated and expanded the principle , and given to it the * Spence's Anecdotes of Books and Men , p . 75 . effect and prominence which justly belong to it . To 14 CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS .
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... principle , I do not understand how there can be a question about it . All government is a modification of general principles and general truths , with a view to practical utility . Personal liberty , for in- stance , is a clear right ...
... principle , I do not understand how there can be a question about it . All government is a modification of general principles and general truths , with a view to practical utility . Personal liberty , for in- stance , is a clear right ...
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Страница 342 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, TO fee whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Страница 476 - Do in the name and in behalf of the People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Страница 501 - 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 455 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Страница 200 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America...
Страница 340 - Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do any thing for themselves ; they imagine there is no safety for them any longer than they are under the close guardianship of the state legislatures. Sir, the people have not trusted their safety, in regard to the general constitution, to these hands. They have required other security, and taken other bonds. They have chosen to trust themselves, first, to the plain words of the instrument, and to such construction as the government...
Страница 255 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Страница 498 - To grant patents for useful inventions. "To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time. "To establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.
Страница 332 - I must call it, which the honorable member espouses, this Union would, in all probability, have been scattered to the four winds. I ask the gentleman, therefore, to apply his principles to that case ; I ask him to come forth and declare whether, in his opinion, the New England States would have been justified in interfering to break up the embargo system, under the conscientious opinions which they held upon it.
Страница 270 - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.