American Eloquence: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses, by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volumen2Frank Moore D. Appleton, 1859 |
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... Senate joined with the President ? It is an absurdity , says the worthy member , that the same man should obey two ... Senators were for life , would they be more agreeable to you ? If your President were not accountable to you for his ...
... Senate joined with the President ? It is an absurdity , says the worthy member , that the same man should obey two ... Senators were for life , would they be more agreeable to you ? If your President were not accountable to you for his ...
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... Senate of the United States , relative to the eligibility of Albert Gallatin , † who had been elected a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania . A petition was presented against his taking his seat , in which it was set forth that he ...
... Senate of the United States , relative to the eligibility of Albert Gallatin , † who had been elected a Senator from the State of Pennsylvania . A petition was presented against his taking his seat , in which it was set forth that he ...
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... Senate , on this occasion , while it may compare with any of his former efforts , in eloquence , has the rare and enviable distinction of being approved and applauded for its sentiments also , by the entire nation . " During his ...
... Senate , on this occasion , while it may compare with any of his former efforts , in eloquence , has the rare and enviable distinction of being approved and applauded for its sentiments also , by the entire nation . " During his ...
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... Senate to enter into its development . readily understood by comparison than other- wise . The tonnage thus employed exceeds the whole tonnage employed by the English East India Company in its trade with Asia ; is nearly a moiety of the ...
... Senate to enter into its development . readily understood by comparison than other- wise . The tonnage thus employed exceeds the whole tonnage employed by the English East India Company in its trade with Asia ; is nearly a moiety of the ...
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... Senate , arising from the same cause , may assist us in establishing and extending those great branches of national wealth and power , which we have such constant and urgent motives to encourage . The establishment of the constitution ...
... Senate , arising from the same cause , may assist us in establishing and extending those great branches of national wealth and power , which we have such constant and urgent motives to encourage . The establishment of the constitution ...
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Página 345 - We wish, finally, that the last object on the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of the 2 morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Página 368 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the 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.
Página 196 - 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.
Página 346 - ... repulse; the loud call to repeated assault; the summoning of all that is manly to repeated resistance; a thousand bosoms freely and fearlessly bared in an instant to whatever of terror there may be in war and death; all these you have witnessed, but you witness them no more. All is peace. The heights of yonder metropolis, its towers and roofs which you then saw filled with wives and...
Página 74 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest Court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Página 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...
Página 379 - He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master. It betrays his discretion, it breaks down his courage, it conquers his prudence. When suspicions from without begin to embarrass him, and the net of circumstance to entangle him, the fatal secret struggles with still greater violence to burst forth.
Página 44 - 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.
Página 377 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Página 346 - 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...