The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasionsC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... Congress before a demand was made upon it , notwithstanding the flattering representations of the message and the treasury report , for authority to issue five millions more of treasury notes . This , we were assured , if Congress would ...
... Congress before a demand was made upon it , notwithstanding the flattering representations of the message and the treasury report , for authority to issue five millions more of treasury notes . This , we were assured , if Congress would ...
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... Congress any adequate provision . It has constantly spoken of the excess of receipts over expenditures , until this excess has finally manifested itself in an absolute necessity for loans , and in a power conferred on the President ...
... Congress any adequate provision . It has constantly spoken of the excess of receipts over expenditures , until this excess has finally manifested itself in an absolute necessity for loans , and in a power conferred on the President ...
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... Congress , it was en- tirely disregarded . And it is of awful portent , that on such a question , a question in its nature strictly judicial , - the domi- nation of party should lead men thus flagrantly to violate first principles . It ...
... Congress , it was en- tirely disregarded . And it is of awful portent , that on such a question , a question in its nature strictly judicial , - the domi- nation of party should lead men thus flagrantly to violate first principles . It ...
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... Congress as emanating from the national gov- ernment , a government which he knows , and which , to a certain extent , he himself influences by the exercise of the elective fran- chise , and in which it is his duty , as a good citizen ...
... Congress as emanating from the national gov- ernment , a government which he knows , and which , to a certain extent , he himself influences by the exercise of the elective fran- chise , and in which it is his duty , as a good citizen ...
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... Congress no power to do any thing in the mat- ter . I said at the time this assertion was uttered , and I still say , that I am hardly able to express the astonishment I feel at what would seem the presumptuousness of such a position ...
... Congress no power to do any thing in the mat- ter . I said at the time this assertion was uttered , and I still say , that I am hardly able to express the astonishment I feel at what would seem the presumptuousness of such a position ...
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Страница 496 - 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 213 - 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 508 - 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.
Страница 496 - 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 508 - Having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honour of our King and country a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Страница 383 - 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 223 - 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 merchandise imported.
Страница 212 - 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 303 - The general rule to be applied in graduating the duties upon articles of foreign growth or manufacture is that which will place our own in fair competition with those of other countries; and the inducements to advance even a step beyond this point are controlling in regard to those articles which are of primary necessity in time of war.
Страница 481 - if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : -gj.