The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster: Comprising Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson; First Settlement of New England; Bunker Hill Monument; Reply to Hayne |
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... resistance . Both were not only decided , but early friends of Independence . While others yet doubted , they were resolved ; where others hesitated , they pressed forward . They were both members of the committee for preparing the ...
... resistance . Both were not only decided , but early friends of Independence . While others yet doubted , they were resolved ; where others hesitated , they pressed forward . They were both members of the committee for preparing the ...
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... resistance began , and with all the previous state papers issued by Congress , required that the Declaration should be bottomed on the misgovernment of the king ; and therefore it was properly framed with that aim and to that end . The ...
... resistance began , and with all the previous state papers issued by Congress , required that the Declaration should be bottomed on the misgovernment of the king ; and therefore it was properly framed with that aim and to that end . The ...
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... resistance only to arbitrary acts of oppression , the nations will believe the whole to have been mere pretence , and they will look on us , not as injured , but as ambitious subjects . I shudder before this respon- sibility . It will ...
... resistance only to arbitrary acts of oppression , the nations will believe the whole to have been mere pretence , and they will look on us , not as injured , but as ambitious subjects . I shudder before this respon- sibility . It will ...
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... resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts and cannot be eradicated . Every Colony , indeed , has expressed its willingness to follow , if we but take the lead . Sir , the Declaration will inspire the people ...
... resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts and cannot be eradicated . Every Colony , indeed , has expressed its willingness to follow , if we but take the lead . Sir , the Declaration will inspire the people ...
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... resistance ; the early part of the late king's reign furnished them . They needed spirits of high order , of great daring , of long foresight , and of commanding power , to seize the favoring occasion to strike a blow , which should ...
... resistance ; the early part of the late king's reign furnished them . They needed spirits of high order , of great daring , of long foresight , and of commanding power , to seize the favoring occasion to strike a blow , which should ...
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Page 12 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 13 - July; and at the same time, it was voted that a committee be appointed to prepare a Declaration to the effect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston.
Page 18 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Page 18 - ... If we fail, it can be no worse for us. But we shall not fail. The cause will raise up armies; the cause will create navies. The people, the people, if we are true to them, will carry us, and will carry themselves, gloriously, through this struggle. I care not how fickle other people have been found. I know the people of these colonies; and I know, that resistance to British aggression is deep and settled in their hearts, and cannot be eradicated.
Page 19 - But whatever may be our fate, be assured, be assured that this Declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick gloom of the present, I see the brightness of the future, as the sun in heaven.
Page 55 - THIS uncounted multitude before me, and around me, proves the feeling which the occasion has excited. These thousands of human faces, glowing with sympathy and joy, and, from the impulses of a common gratitude, turned reverently to heaven, in this spacious temple of the firmament, proclaim that the day, the place, and the purpose of our assembling have made a deep impression on our hearts.