The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 pages |
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... political career of Daniel Webster , which was believed still to exist among the reading public . Biographies of this distinguished man , possessing various degrees of merit , abound on every hand ; but there is no work in existence ...
... political career of Daniel Webster , which was believed still to exist among the reading public . Biographies of this distinguished man , possessing various degrees of merit , abound on every hand ; but there is no work in existence ...
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... Political LifeHis Legal Argu- ments - The Girard Will Case - Suit against the City of Boston - Mr . Webster returns to the Senate - Annexation of Texas - Dispute respect- ing Oregon Territory - The Mexican War -- Admission of 6 CONTENTS .
... Political LifeHis Legal Argu- ments - The Girard Will Case - Suit against the City of Boston - Mr . Webster returns to the Senate - Annexation of Texas - Dispute respect- ing Oregon Territory - The Mexican War -- Admission of 6 CONTENTS .
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... political world ever yet witnessed , and which , perhaps , will forever stand in the history of mankind without a parallel . A great Republic , composed of different States , whose interest in all respects could not be perfectly ...
... political world ever yet witnessed , and which , perhaps , will forever stand in the history of mankind without a parallel . A great Republic , composed of different States , whose interest in all respects could not be perfectly ...
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... political savior ? where , O humanity , thy favorite son ? " The solemnity of this assembly , the lamentations of the American people , will answer , ' Alas ! he is now no more ! the mighty is fallen ! ' " Yes , Americans , Washington ...
... political savior ? where , O humanity , thy favorite son ? " The solemnity of this assembly , the lamentations of the American people , will answer , ' Alas ! he is now no more ! the mighty is fallen ! ' " Yes , Americans , Washington ...
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... political arena . That interval was industriously filled up by his close attention to his professional pursuits . His reputa- tion as a lawyer was gradually rising higher and higher ; so that his services were in constant requisition ...
... political arena . That interval was industriously filled up by his close attention to his professional pursuits . His reputa- tion as a lawyer was gradually rising higher and higher ; so that his services were in constant requisition ...
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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.