A Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise: With a History of the Political Campaign in Virginia in 1855: to which is Added a Review of the Position of Parties in the Union, and a Statement of the Political Issues: Distinguishing Them on the Eve of the Presidential Campaign of 1856J. W. Randolph, 1856 - 509 páginas |
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... spirit of a southern republi- can and statesman . There was no document that appeared on the subject which bespoke so truly the sentiments of the Democratic party of Virginia in their utter detestation of secret political societies and ...
... spirit of a southern republi- can and statesman . There was no document that appeared on the subject which bespoke so truly the sentiments of the Democratic party of Virginia in their utter detestation of secret political societies and ...
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... spirit of the laws ; His fate determined by the rules of right , His voice enacted in the common voice And general suffrage of the assembled realm , No hand invisible to write his doom ; No demon starting at the midnight hour , To draw ...
... spirit of the laws ; His fate determined by the rules of right , His voice enacted in the common voice And general suffrage of the assembled realm , No hand invisible to write his doom ; No demon starting at the midnight hour , To draw ...
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... spirit of Magna Charta . Such is our condition of freedom at home , showing no necessity for such a secret organization and its antagonism to the very basis of American rights . And our comparative native and Protestant strength at home ...
... spirit of Magna Charta . Such is our condition of freedom at home , showing no necessity for such a secret organization and its antagonism to the very basis of American rights . And our comparative native and Protestant strength at home ...
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... spirit of our laws and the facts of our history . Some families in this Republic render themselves ridiculous , and offensive , too , by the vain pretensions to the exalting accidents of birth . We , in Vir- ginia , are not seldom ...
... spirit of our laws and the facts of our history . Some families in this Republic render themselves ridiculous , and offensive , too , by the vain pretensions to the exalting accidents of birth . We , in Vir- ginia , are not seldom ...
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... spirit of our laws . Our laws sprang from the necessity of the condition of our early settlers . They brought with them from England their Penates , the household gods of an Anglo - Saxon race , the liberties of Magna Charta , the trial ...
... spirit of our laws . Our laws sprang from the necessity of the condition of our early settlers . They brought with them from England their Penates , the household gods of an Anglo - Saxon race , the liberties of Magna Charta , the trial ...
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Página 473 - ... 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, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 177 - Mexican republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Página 14 - We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as .we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends.
Página 131 - For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things and heard him gladly.
Página 15 - ... all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge or affect their civil capacities.
Página 330 - DO not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you.
Página 383 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the...
Página 17 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doJh- absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
Página 176 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Página 69 - And she came in straightway with haste unto the king, and asked, saying, I will that thou give me by and by in a charger the head of John the Baptist.