The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 pages |
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... known as the Federal party , and the crisis which occurred at that time was of more than usual importance and difficulty . The embargo and the war with England had resulted most disastrously to the commerce and the interests of New ...
... known as the Federal party , and the crisis which occurred at that time was of more than usual importance and difficulty . The embargo and the war with England had resulted most disastrously to the commerce and the interests of New ...
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... known to this Government or to any of its representatives or agents . " Resolved , That the President be requested , in case the fact be that the first information of the existence of said decree of the 28th of April , 1811 , ever ...
... known to this Government or to any of its representatives or agents . " Resolved , That the President be requested , in case the fact be that the first information of the existence of said decree of the 28th of April , 1811 , ever ...
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... known to have passed within a few minutes of the time of the alleged robbery . " The major's story was as follows : Three men sud- denly appeared before him , one of whom seized the bridle of the horse , presented a pistol , and ...
... known to have passed within a few minutes of the time of the alleged robbery . " The major's story was as follows : Three men sud- denly appeared before him , one of whom seized the bridle of the horse , presented a pistol , and ...
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... known at that time , and ever since , as one of his peculiar views , —that the policy of this country should in general be a peaceful one , and that it should retain the attitude under all cir- cumstances of non - intervention in the ...
... known at that time , and ever since , as one of his peculiar views , —that the policy of this country should in general be a peaceful one , and that it should retain the attitude under all cir- cumstances of non - intervention in the ...
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... known at the Congress of Verona as they are now known to us ; and it is not too much to call on the powers that constituted that congress , in the 56 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... known at the Congress of Verona as they are now known to us ; and it is not too much to call on the powers that constituted that congress , in the 56 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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Page 248 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent, on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 102 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 346 - Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is safe.
Page 480 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
Page 215 - And, Sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
Page 117 - ... that he may be brought before such Judges or other Magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered...
Page 218 - States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, .and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 216 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Page 444 - O'er PITT'S the mournful requiem sound, And Fox's shall the notes rebound. The solemn echo seems to cry, ' Here let their discord with them die. Speak not for those a separate doom, Whom Fate made Brothers in the tomb ; But search the land of living men, Where wilt thou find their like agen...
Page 245 - And if its plain provisions shall now be disregarded, and these new doctrines interpolated in it, it will become as feeble and helpless a being as its enemies, whether early or more recent, could possibly desire.