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I. IN 1850 , after the triumph of the Compromise Measures , Henry Clay visited
Philadelphia , and stayed at the American House , on Chestnut Street , opposite
Independence Hall . As I had supported these Measures in opposition to the ...
I. IN 1850 , after the triumph of the Compromise Measures , Henry Clay visited
Philadelphia , and stayed at the American House , on Chestnut Street , opposite
Independence Hall . As I had supported these Measures in opposition to the ...
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Suppose , when I get home to - morrow , I meet my wife , instead of my children ,
at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C
. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay , of Kentucky ...
Suppose , when I get home to - morrow , I meet my wife , instead of my children ,
at the door , and on asking for my darlings , she tells me that a man called John C
. Calhoun , of South Carolina , and another man called Henry Clay , of Kentucky ...
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Barton was an orator I have never heard surpassed in either House of Congress ,
and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in
the days when shorthand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so ...
Barton was an orator I have never heard surpassed in either House of Congress ,
and I may safely say this , as I never heard Henry Clay . He lived , unhappily , in
the days when shorthand reporting was in its infancy . His utterance was so ...
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He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washington in 1851 as a
Representative from the old Henry Clay Lexington district , in Kentucky , he was
in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he had just attained his 30th
year ...
He inherited hostility to slavery . When he came to Washington in 1851 as a
Representative from the old Henry Clay Lexington district , in Kentucky , he was
in no sense an extremist . At that early day , when he had just attained his 30th
year ...
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Henry Clay's early Democracy did not prevent him from becoming the defiant
enemy of that party after Andrew Jackson took command of it . Calhoun became
a free - trader after having made some of the strongest arguments for protection ...
Henry Clay's early Democracy did not prevent him from becoming the defiant
enemy of that party after Andrew Jackson took command of it . Calhoun became
a free - trader after having made some of the strongest arguments for protection ...
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Página 170 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 169 - 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 do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Página 170 - Now, at the end of three years' struggle, the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man, devised or expected. God alone can claim it. \Vhither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North, as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.
Página 171 - It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that they have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Página 12 - 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.
Página 445 - With a full View of the English-Dutch Struggle against Spain, and of the Origin and Destruction of the Spanish Armada. By JOHN LOTHBOP MOTLEY, LL.D., DCL Portraits.
Página 169 - Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon and come to stay, and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time.
Página 245 - But if this country cannot be saved without giving up that principle, I was about to say I would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it.
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| Título | Anecdotes of Public Men, Volumen1 Anecdotes of Public Men, John Wien Forney |
| Autor | John Wien Forney |
| Edición | reimpresa |
| Editor | Harper & Brothers, 1873 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 10 Dic. 2007 |
| Largo | 444 páginas |
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