Andrew Jackson and Early Tennessee History ...Ambrose Printing Company, 1921 - Tennessee |
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... course , this is gratifying to me beyond measure and I hope you will tender to my friends my greatful acknowledgement for their complementary letter ex- pressing their intire satisfaction at my course as their servant I never did know ...
... course , this is gratifying to me beyond measure and I hope you will tender to my friends my greatful acknowledgement for their complementary letter ex- pressing their intire satisfaction at my course as their servant I never did know ...
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... course through all the storms of life . How big and brave and rugged was this man . He met each danger like a brave soldier . He never flinched from any task . He stood square - fronted to the world . " They say that he is dead , but we ...
... course through all the storms of life . How big and brave and rugged was this man . He met each danger like a brave soldier . He never flinched from any task . He stood square - fronted to the world . " They say that he is dead , but we ...
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... course and conse- quences of both were the same ; the discomfiture of the British plans of conquest , and a rapid ebb , which , owing to foreign inter- vention , never knew a flood corresponding to the previous high- tide . " Those who ...
... course and conse- quences of both were the same ; the discomfiture of the British plans of conquest , and a rapid ebb , which , owing to foreign inter- vention , never knew a flood corresponding to the previous high- tide . " Those who ...
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... course of this campaign , Ferguson had ' from one to two thousand militia , a fluctuating body , whose numbers could not be depended upon , as they increased or diminished with the report of the day . ' No one would dare question the ...
... course of this campaign , Ferguson had ' from one to two thousand militia , a fluctuating body , whose numbers could not be depended upon , as they increased or diminished with the report of the day . ' No one would dare question the ...
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... course he pursued . Unquestionably he had a professional soldier's contempt for all militia , and it was through striking on this ' rock of offense ' ' that his bark was so injured that it foundered in the storm that followed . Of one ...
... course he pursued . Unquestionably he had a professional soldier's contempt for all militia , and it was through striking on this ' rock of offense ' ' that his bark was so injured that it foundered in the storm that followed . Of one ...
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Page 682 - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Page 213 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it ; and if I could...
Page 692 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who, in any quarter, may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Page 313 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned...
Page 362 - Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall ; for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
Page 302 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress, than the opinion of (Congress has over the judges; and, on that point, the President is independent of both.
Page 432 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 228 - The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of luxury and pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Page 411 - ... whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Page 680 - Alternate triumphed in his breast ; His bliss and woe— a smile, a tear ! Oblivion hides the rest. The bounding pulse, the languid limb, The changing spirits' rise and fall; We know that these were felt by him, For these are felt by all.