American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 2D. Appleton and Company, 1857 - History |
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... votes of the electors be influenced ? By nothing but the character and conduct of the man they vote for . What object can influence them when about choosing him ? They have nothing to direct them in the choice but their own good . Have ...
... votes of the electors be influenced ? By nothing but the character and conduct of the man they vote for . What object can influence them when about choosing him ? They have nothing to direct them in the choice but their own good . Have ...
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... vote against it , returned to their constituents without determining the question , to convince them of their being mistaken , and of the pro- priety of adopting it . impossibility of this . Must they , then , not trust them to others ...
... vote against it , returned to their constituents without determining the question , to convince them of their being mistaken , and of the pro- priety of adopting it . impossibility of this . Must they , then , not trust them to others ...
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... voting on this question . A law passed in 1782 , which secures this . He says that many poor men may be harassed and injured by the representatives of Lord Fairfax . If he has no right , this cannot be done . If he has this right , and ...
... voting on this question . A law passed in 1782 , which secures this . He says that many poor men may be harassed and injured by the representatives of Lord Fairfax . If he has no right , this cannot be done . If he has this right , and ...
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... vote of the legislature , a delegate to the Continental Congress , from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; and on the sixth of December , joined that body , then in session at Trenton , New Jersey . In 1785 and 1786 , he was reëlected ...
... vote of the legislature , a delegate to the Continental Congress , from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts ; and on the sixth of December , joined that body , then in session at Trenton , New Jersey . In 1785 and 1786 , he was reëlected ...
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... votes of their delegates in the old Congress , approved of the ordinance of 1787 , by which slavery is for ever abolished in the territory northwest of the river Ohio . Without the votes of these States , the ordi- nance could not have ...
... votes of their delegates in the old Congress , approved of the ordinance of 1787 , by which slavery is for ever abolished in the territory northwest of the river Ohio . Without the votes of these States , the ordi- nance could not have ...
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Page 399 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 46 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 400 - Meantime, the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
Page 369 - Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and sec whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
Page 208 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 368 - ... supported by the excess and the abuse of it, are yielding, in our age, to other opinions; and the civilized world seems at last to be proceeding to the conviction of that fundamental and manifest truth, that the powers of government are but a trust, and that they cannot be lawfully exercised but for the good of the community. As knowledge is more and more extended, this conviction becomes more and more general. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered...
Page 21 - ... upon such evidence of criminality as, according to the laws of the place where the fugitive or person so charged shall be found, would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial, if the crime or offence had there been committed...
Page 400 - True it is, generally speaking, that " murder will out." True it is that Providence hath so ordained, and doth so govern things, that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood seldom succeed in avoiding discovery. Especially in a case exciting so much attention as this, discovery must come, and will come, sooner or later.
Page 400 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe!
Page 364 - ... shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered! The same heavens are indeed over your heads; the same ocean rolls at your feet; but all else how changed! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes of smoke and flame rising from burning Charlestown, The ground strewed with the dead and the dying; the impetuous charge; the steady and successful repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance...