American Oratory: Or Selections from the Speeches of Eminent AmericansDesilver, Thomas & Company, 1836 - 531 ページ |
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... feel oppression , and will oppose it ; but we know , for our constitution tells us , that oppression can never spring from the throne . We must , therefore , search elsewhere for its source : our infallible guide will direct us to it ...
... feel oppression , and will oppose it ; but we know , for our constitution tells us , that oppression can never spring from the throne . We must , therefore , search elsewhere for its source : our infallible guide will direct us to it ...
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... feel the highest gratitude and attachment to my country ; her felicity is the most fervent prayer of my heart . Conscious of having exerted my faculties to the utmost in her be- half , if I have not succeeded in securing the esteem of ...
... feel the highest gratitude and attachment to my country ; her felicity is the most fervent prayer of my heart . Conscious of having exerted my faculties to the utmost in her be- half , if I have not succeeded in securing the esteem of ...
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... feel the fatal effects of an imperfect system of union . I The honorable gentleman attacks the constitution , as he thinks it contrary to our bill of rights . Do we not appeal to the people , by whose authority all government is made ...
... feel the fatal effects of an imperfect system of union . I The honorable gentleman attacks the constitution , as he thinks it contrary to our bill of rights . Do we not appeal to the people , by whose authority all government is made ...
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... , than this desperate alternative , is a union with our American brethren ! I feel my- self so abhorrent to any thing that will dissolve our union , that I cannot prevail with myself to assent to it directly or THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION .
... , than this desperate alternative , is a union with our American brethren ! I feel my- self so abhorrent to any thing that will dissolve our union , that I cannot prevail with myself to assent to it directly or THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION .
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... feel the in- dignation of an honest historian , he would reprehend and recrim- inate our folly with equal severity and justice . Catch the present moment ; seize it with avidity and eagerness ; for it may be lost , never to be regained ...
... feel the in- dignation of an honest historian , he would reprehend and recrim- inate our folly with equal severity and justice . Catch the present moment ; seize it with avidity and eagerness ; for it may be lost , never to be regained ...
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300 ページ - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
15 ページ - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
14 ページ - President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of 2 hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty ? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not...
21 ページ - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection and security, of the people, nation or community...
199 ページ - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "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...
113 ページ - Thou art my father ; and to the worm, Thou art my mother and my sister.
439 ページ - Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers, and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else, how changed...
492 ページ - Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? I know we do not mean to submit. We never shall submit.
14 ページ - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.
301 ページ - When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.