A Discourse Occasioned by the Death of Daniel Webster: Preached at the Melodeon, October 31, 1852An uncomplimentary memorial emphasizing negative aspects of Webster's Seventh of March speech and criticizing certain personal qualities and habits. |
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... and our State , and be guided to the Eternal Justice which is the foundation of the common weal . There is a Higher Law of God , written imperishably on the nature of things , and in INTRODUCTION . vii the nature of man ; and ,
... and our State , and be guided to the Eternal Justice which is the foundation of the common weal . There is a Higher Law of God , written imperishably on the nature of things , and in INTRODUCTION . vii the nature of man ; and ,
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... justice , in my counsel , I hope you will be guided thereby ; and , in your commerce and politics , will practise on the truth which ages confirm , that Righteousness exalteth a Nation , while Injustice is a reproach to any People . 1 ...
... justice , in my counsel , I hope you will be guided thereby ; and , in your commerce and politics , will practise on the truth which ages confirm , that Righteousness exalteth a Nation , while Injustice is a reproach to any People . 1 ...
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... justice of a man . I shall tax your time beyond even my usual wont , for I cannot crush Olympus into a nut . Be not alarmed : if I tax your time the more , I shall tire your patience less . Such a day as this will never come again to ...
... justice of a man . I shall tax your time beyond even my usual wont , for I cannot crush Olympus into a nut . Be not alarmed : if I tax your time the more , I shall tire your patience less . Such a day as this will never come again to ...
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... justice , of love , of holiness , of trust in God , and of obe- dience to his law , the Eternal Right . These are the highest qualities of man : whoso is most eminent therein is the greatest of great men . He is as much above the merely ...
... justice , of love , of holiness , of trust in God , and of obe- dience to his law , the Eternal Right . These are the highest qualities of man : whoso is most eminent therein is the greatest of great men . He is as much above the merely ...
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... justice , philanthropy , religion , of mighty power of will and mighty act ; if you feel him as you feel the mountain and the sea , what grander emotions spring up ! It is like making the acquaintance of one of the elementary forces of ...
... justice , philanthropy , religion , of mighty power of will and mighty act ; if you feel him as you feel the mountain and the sea , what grander emotions spring up ! It is like making the acquaintance of one of the elementary forces of ...
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Page 50 - Christian states, in whose hearts there dwell no sentiments of humanity or of justice, and over whom neither the fear of God nor the fear of man exercises a control. In the sight of our law, the African slave-trader is a pirate and a felon ; and in the sight of Heaven, an offender ' far beyond the ordinary depth of human guilt.
Page 27 - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration, forever.
Page 26 - Lastly, our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be trusted on any other foundation than religious principle, nor any government be secure which is not supported by moral habits.
Page 50 - I hear the sound of the hammer — I see the smoke of the furnaces where manacles and fetters are still forged for human limbs. I see the visages of those who, by stealth, and at midnight, labour in this work of hell, foul and dark, as may become the artificers of such instruments of misery and torture.
Page 101 - But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
Page 70 - Pure Religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Page 51 - I believe it is entirely willing, to fulfil all existing engagements and all existing duties, to uphold and defend the Constitution as it is established, with whatever regrets about some provisions which it does actually contain. But to coerce it into silence, to endeavor to restrain its free expression, to seek to compress and confine it, warm as it is, and more heated as such endeavors would inevitably render it, — should this be attempted, I know nothing, even in the Constitution or in the Union...
Page 58 - This high constitutional privilege, I shall defend and exercise, within this House, and without this House, and in all places ; in time of war, in time of peace, and at all times.
Page 58 - Important as I deem it to discuss, on all proper occasions, the policy of the measures at present pursued, it is still more important to maintain the right of such discussion, in its full and just extent. Sentiments lately sprung up, and now growing fashionable, make it necessary to be explicit on this point. The more I perceive a disposition to check the freedom of inquiry by extravagant and unconstitutional pretences, the firmer shall be the tone in which I shall assert, and the freer the manner...
Page 31 - United States, as well as for purposes of domestic regulation. We spurn the idea that the free, sovereign, and independent state of Massachusetts is reduced to a mere municipal corporation, without power to protect its people, or to defend them from oppression, from whatever quarter it comes.