The Life, Speeches and Memorials of Daniel Webster ...Belford, Clarke & Company, 1859 - 548 pages |
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... Slavery in the District of Columbia ............ CHAPTER IX . Mr. Webster's Visit to England - Election of General Harrison to the Pre- sidency - His Death - Accession of Mr. Tyler - The " Treaty of Wash- ington " -Its Various ...
... Slavery in the District of Columbia ............ CHAPTER IX . Mr. Webster's Visit to England - Election of General Harrison to the Pre- sidency - His Death - Accession of Mr. Tyler - The " Treaty of Wash- ington " -Its Various ...
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... Slavery Compromise , March 7 , 1850. 253 III . - Speech on the Greek Revolution , delivered in the House of Re- presentatives , January 19 , 1823 ..... 305 IV . - Speech on the Trial of John F. Knapp for murder , at Salem , Mas ...
... Slavery Compromise , March 7 , 1850. 253 III . - Speech on the Greek Revolution , delivered in the House of Re- presentatives , January 19 , 1823 ..... 305 IV . - Speech on the Trial of John F. Knapp for murder , at Salem , Mas ...
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... slavery , by their own blood , which they seem willing to pour out like water , by the common faith and in the name which unites all Christians , that they would extend to them at least some token of compassionate 62 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
... slavery , by their own blood , which they seem willing to pour out like water , by the common faith and in the name which unites all Christians , that they would extend to them at least some token of compassionate 62 THE LIFE AND TIMES.
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... Slavery in the District of Columbia . THE election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency in 1828 opened a more turbulent era in the history of the politics and government of the country . Upon the pe- culiar qualities of the inflexible ...
... Slavery in the District of Columbia . THE election of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency in 1828 opened a more turbulent era in the history of the politics and government of the country . Upon the pe- culiar qualities of the inflexible ...
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... slavery in the District of Columbia ; and to assert that the intermeddling of any State or its citizens with slavery either in that District or in any of the Territories , on the ground that it was immoral or sinful , would be a direct ...
... slavery in the District of Columbia ; and to assert that the intermeddling of any State or its citizens with slavery either in that District or in any of the Territories , on the ground that it was immoral or sinful , would be a direct ...
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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.