The Life and Speeches of Henry Clay ...Greeley & McElrath, 1843 - Campaign literature |
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... Kentucky an unknown and friendless stripling , had passed from a seat in the Legislature to the Speaker's chair , and thence to the Senate of the United States . His subsequent career has been such as to teach emphatically Preface,
... Kentucky an unknown and friendless stripling , had passed from a seat in the Legislature to the Speaker's chair , and thence to the Senate of the United States . His subsequent career has been such as to teach emphatically Preface,
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... Kentucky , where she lived until her death , which occurred but a few years since . At her departure , he was placed in the office of Mr. PETER TINSLEY , Clerk of the High Court of Chancery in the City of Richmond - being left , ' as he ...
... Kentucky , where she lived until her death , which occurred but a few years since . At her departure , he was placed in the office of Mr. PETER TINSLEY , Clerk of the High Court of Chancery in the City of Richmond - being left , ' as he ...
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... Kentucky , where for the first time , a beardless stranger , he was seen upon its streets . In the words of Chief Justice ROBERTSON , of that State , he came leaning alone on Providence , a widowed mother's prayers and the untutored ...
... Kentucky , where for the first time , a beardless stranger , he was seen upon its streets . In the words of Chief Justice ROBERTSON , of that State , he came leaning alone on Providence , a widowed mother's prayers and the untutored ...
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... Kentucky courts are filled with the proofs of his legal power and of his extended practice . One of his earliest cases , there present- ed , is the defence of Mrs. Phelps , the respected descendant of a worthy family , and the blameless ...
... Kentucky courts are filled with the proofs of his legal power and of his extended practice . One of his earliest cases , there present- ed , is the defence of Mrs. Phelps , the respected descendant of a worthy family , and the blameless ...
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... Kentucky , Mr. CLAY was al- most uniformly engaged on the side of the defendant . He was led to this by his strong natural sympathies not less than by the high reputation he had acquired in the professional conduct of similar cases ...
... Kentucky , Mr. CLAY was al- most uniformly engaged on the side of the defendant . He was led to this by his strong natural sympathies not less than by the high reputation he had acquired in the professional conduct of similar cases ...
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Page 24 - 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.
Page 137 - We are fighting a great moral battle, for the benefit not only of our country, but of all mankind. The eyes of the whole world are in fixed attention upon us. One, and the largest portion of it, is gazing with contempt, with jealousy, and with envy; the other portion, with hope, with confidence, and with affection. Everywhere the black cloud of legitimacy is suspended over the world, save only one bright spot, which breaks out from the political hemisphere of the west, to enlighten, and animate,...
Page 9 - 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.
Page 136 - If a Roman citizen had been asked, if he did not fear that the conqueror of Gaul might establish a throne upon the ruins of public liberty, he would have instantly repelled the unjust insinuation. Yet Greece fell...
Page 137 - Beware how you give a fatal sanction, in this infant period of our republic, scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination.
Page 38 - Neither his retirement from public office, his eminent services, nor his advanced age, can exempt this patriot from the coarse assaults of party malevolence. No, sir, 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!
Page 165 - President's opinion, and by appointing his successor to effect such removal, which has been done, the President has assumed the exercise of a power over the Treasury of the United States, not granted to him by the Constitution and laws, and dangerous to the liberties of the people.
Page 47 - Great Britain intends you no harm; she did not mean to impress you, but one of her own subjects; having taken you by mistake, I will remonstrate, and try to prevail upon her by peaceable means to release you; but I cannot, my son, fight for you.
Page 38 - ... or, if he lives at all, shall live only in the treasonable annals of a certain junto, the name of Jefferson will be hailed with gratitude, his memory honored and cherished as the second founder of the liberties of the people, and the period of his administration will be looked back to, as one of the happiest and brightest epochs of American history — an oasis in the midst of a sandy desert. But...
Page 85 - Born, sir, in a land of liberty; having early learned its value; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having, in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country, my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.