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... elected to a seat in the national House of Representa- tives , to succeed the gifted Poindexter . This office he filled with great credit and fidelity , though he was not gifted with any eminent powers of oratory . He was more of a ...
... elected to a seat in the national House of Representa- tives , to succeed the gifted Poindexter . This office he filled with great credit and fidelity , though he was not gifted with any eminent powers of oratory . He was more of a ...
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... elected Attorney- General of the State , which office he filled for four years with great ability . In 1827 , he was elected to the Senate of the United States . His legal knowledge and familiarity with the fundamental principles of our ...
... elected Attorney- General of the State , which office he filled for four years with great ability . In 1827 , he was elected to the Senate of the United States . His legal knowledge and familiarity with the fundamental principles of our ...
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... elected , in 1830 , to the United States Senate in the place of Mr. Reed , who died the year preceding . Here the prospects of Mr. Adams were brilliant in the highest degree , and his learning , eloquence , and winning address , would ...
... elected , in 1830 , to the United States Senate in the place of Mr. Reed , who died the year preceding . Here the prospects of Mr. Adams were brilliant in the highest degree , and his learning , eloquence , and winning address , would ...
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... elected Attorney - General . In this capacity , besides his duties before the Supreme Court , he was required to attend the sessions of the Legislature , to give his opinions as to the constitutionality of its acts , and , when required ...
... elected Attorney - General . In this capacity , besides his duties before the Supreme Court , he was required to attend the sessions of the Legislature , to give his opinions as to the constitutionality of its acts , and , when required ...
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... elected to represent the Territory in the Congress of the United States . The following is his reply to the committee informing him of his election : " GENTLEMEN : I receive , with emotions of gratitude and re- spect , the notification ...
... elected to represent the Territory in the Congress of the United States . The following is his reply to the committee informing him of his election : " GENTLEMEN : I receive , with emotions of gratitude and re- spect , the notification ...
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Page 436 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 242 - So the struck eagle, stretched upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, Viewed his own feather on the fatal dart, And winged the shaft that quivered in his heart...
Page 436 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward until it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 410 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a constitution for itself, and in that constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States...
Page 308 - Come not to me again : but say to Athens, Timon hath made his everlasting mansion Upon the beached verge of the salt flood ; Who once a day with his embossed froth The turbulent surge shall cover : thither come, And let my grave-stone be your oracle.
Page 305 - Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here, on the elementary principles of society, has presented this question to my mind; and that no such obligation can be so transmitted, I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living : that the dead have neither...
Page 419 - The right of a citizen of one state to pass through, or to reside in any other state, for purposes of trade, agriculture, professional pursuits, or otherwise...
Page 410 - The people of the United States framed such a government for the United States as they supposed best adapted to their situation, and best calculated to promote their interests. The powers they conferred on this government were to be exercised by itself; and the limitations on power, if expressed in general terms, are naturally, and, we think, necessarily applicable to the government created by the instrument.
Page 41 - ... power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes; it is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the people ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions.
Page 231 - The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed: It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes...