Biography of Henry ClayS. Hanmer, Jr., and John Jay Phelps, 1831 - 304 pages |
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... favour ; but the hearts of the spectators were so touched and purified by the con- templation of the happiness they witnessed , that , if a smile rested for one moment upon the lip , it was a smile , not of derision , but of sympathy ...
... favour ; but the hearts of the spectators were so touched and purified by the con- templation of the happiness they witnessed , that , if a smile rested for one moment upon the lip , it was a smile , not of derision , but of sympathy ...
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... very point of being decided against Mr. Clay's client , was decided in his favour , in less than half an hour after Mr. C. entered the Court - House . SECTION SECOND . THE commencement of Mr. Clay's political career 20 BIOGRAPHY OF.
... very point of being decided against Mr. Clay's client , was decided in his favour , in less than half an hour after Mr. C. entered the Court - House . SECTION SECOND . THE commencement of Mr. Clay's political career 20 BIOGRAPHY OF.
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... favour of the election of men to the convention , who would con- tend for the eradication of slavery . Let it not be sup- posed , that the principles which he essayed to vindicate , were the same that are avowed by certain ill - judging ...
... favour of the election of men to the convention , who would con- tend for the eradication of slavery . Let it not be sup- posed , that the principles which he essayed to vindicate , were the same that are avowed by certain ill - judging ...
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... favour . A passion for the liberty of mankind seems to have formed , at that early period , a portion of his being , and he has not changed since . He has been the slave's friend through life . In all stations he has pleaded the cause ...
... favour . A passion for the liberty of mankind seems to have formed , at that early period , a portion of his being , and he has not changed since . He has been the slave's friend through life . In all stations he has pleaded the cause ...
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... favour of their respective claims , and insist- ing that Mr. Clay did not wish the office , to which his friends had nominated him . On the evening of the se- cond , or the morning of the third day of the election , Mr. C. himself ...
... favour of their respective claims , and insist- ing that Mr. Clay did not wish the office , to which his friends had nominated him . On the evening of the se- cond , or the morning of the third day of the election , Mr. C. himself ...
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Page 105 - American fishermen shall have liberty to dry and cure fish in any of the unsettled bays, harbours, and creeks of Nova Scotia, Magdalen Islands, and Labrador, so long as the same shall remain unsettled; but so soon as the same or either of them shall be settled, it shall not be lawful for the said fishermen to dry or cure fish at such settlement, without a previous agreement for that purpose with the inhabitants, proprietors, or possessors of the ground.
Page 210 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed on the part of this House, jointly with such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States, and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make.
Page 176 - Beware how you forfeit this exalted character ! Beware how you give a fatal sanction in this infant period of our republic scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination!
Page 210 - House, respectively, whether it be expedient or not to make provision for the admission of Missouri into the Union on the same footing as the original States, and for the due execution of the laws of the United States within Missouri; and if not, whether any other, and what, provision adapted to her actual condition ought to be made by law.
Page 105 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 220 - In the month of January, in the year of our Lord and Saviour, 1824, while all European Christendom beheld, with cold and unfeeling indifference, the unexampled wrongs and inexpressible misery of Christian Greece, a proposition was made in the Congress of the United States, almost the sole, the last, the greatest...
Page 199 - That, in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana...
Page 92 - How vain and impotent is party rage, directed against such a man! He is not more elevated by his lofty residence, upon the summit of his own favorite mountain, than he is lifted, by the serenity of his mind, and the consciousness of a well-spent life, above the malignant passions and bitter feelings of the day.
Page 100 - ... negotiate the terms of a peace at Quebec or at Halifax. We are told that England is a proud and lofty nation, which, disdaining to wait for danger, meets it half way. Haughty as she is, we once triumphed over her, and, if we do not listen to the counsels of timidity and despair, we shall again prevail. In such a cause, with the aid of Providence, we must come out crowned with success. But if we fail, let us fail like men, lash ourselves to our gallant tars, and expire together in one common struggle,...
Page 99 - What does a state of war present ? The united energies of one People arrayed against the combined energies of another ; a conflict in which each, party aims to inflict all the injury it can, by sea and land, upon the territories, property, and citizens of the other, — subject only to the rules of mitigated war, practised by civilized Nations.