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... mind , and , after spending some months with his family , he was enlisted in Owingsville , on August 26 , 1813 , as a soldier in the war of 1812 , and ren- dezvoused at Newport , Kentucky , five days later . He was immediately elected ...
... mind , and , after spending some months with his family , he was enlisted in Owingsville , on August 26 , 1813 , as a soldier in the war of 1812 , and ren- dezvoused at Newport , Kentucky , five days later . He was immediately elected ...
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... mind of Menefee in a way that they had never been before . When Clay visited Mississippi Mayes delivered the address of welcome at Jackson . In 1845 he was defeated for Attorney - Gen- eral of Mississippi , and five years later was ...
... mind of Menefee in a way that they had never been before . When Clay visited Mississippi Mayes delivered the address of welcome at Jackson . In 1845 he was defeated for Attorney - Gen- eral of Mississippi , and five years later was ...
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... mind and body are seriously impaired by sleeping late ; that they were de- sirous of correcting their habits in this par- ticular ; that they each had the strongest of all interests in the preservation of the mind and health of the ...
... mind and body are seriously impaired by sleeping late ; that they were de- sirous of correcting their habits in this par- ticular ; that they each had the strongest of all interests in the preservation of the mind and health of the ...
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... mind , he was , like his father , ready to become a man of action . Governor Morehead appointed Gen. Leslie Combs , of Fayette County , as colonel of the Kentucky regiment , but before he got his com- mand ready to march , orders were ...
... mind , he was , like his father , ready to become a man of action . Governor Morehead appointed Gen. Leslie Combs , of Fayette County , as colonel of the Kentucky regiment , but before he got his com- mand ready to march , orders were ...
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... mind that winter . " I have examined the files of the old Frankfort Commonwealth , trying to find this speech , but neither this one nor any other of Menefee's speeches in the Kentucky legislature have been preserved . On the following ...
... mind that winter . " I have examined the files of the old Frankfort Commonwealth , trying to find this speech , but neither this one nor any other of Menefee's speeches in the Kentucky legislature have been preserved . On the following ...
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Page 300 - Twas thine own genius gave the final blow, And helped to plant the wound that laid thee low : 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 ; Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel He nursed the pinion which impelled the steel ; While the same plumage that had warmed his nest Drank the last life-drop of his bleeding breast.
Page 312 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 161 - When a Committee is charged with an inquiry, if a member prove to be involved, they cannot proceed against him, but must make a special report to the House, whereupon the member is heard in his place, or at the bar, or a special authority is given to the Committee to inquire concerning him.
Page 135 - ... its citizens) has a right to go to war by the authority of its individual citizens. But this is not true, either on the general principles of society, or by our Constitution, which gives that power to Congress alone, and not to the citizens individually. Then the first position was not true ; and no citizen has a right to go to war of his own authority ; and for what he does without right, he ought to be punished.
Page 133 - An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect.
Page 178 - So brainsickly of things. Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand. Why did you bring these daggers from the place ? They must lie there : go carry them, and smear The sleepy grooms with blood. Macb. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done ; Look on't again I dare not.
Page 181 - A committee meet when and where they please, if the House has not ordered time and place for them, 6 Grey, 370; but they can only act when together, and not by separate consultation and consent — nothing being the report of the committee but what has been agreed to in committee actually assembled.
Page 94 - To avoid these evils it appears to me that the most safe, just, and federal disposition which could be made of the surplus revenue would be its apportionment among the several States according to their ratio of representation, and should this measure not be found warranted by the Constitution that it would be expedient to propose to the States an amendment authorizing it.
Page 166 - Grey, 88, 95. The privilege of a member is the privilege of the House. If the member waive it without leave, it is a ground for punishing him, but cannot in effect waive the privilege of the House.
Page 146 - Mr. Wise stated that : — Mr. Clay's friends particularly, were very anxious, for obvious reasons, not to involve his name, especially, in the affair. Thus many confidential facts remained unknown on both sides. Mr. Clay himself, it is true, while all his friends were trembling lest the part he took in it should be disclosed, boldly came to me and said, " Sir, it is a nine days' bubble ! If they want to know what I did in the matter, tell them to call me before them and I will tell them.