American oratorsMayo Williamson Hazeltine P.F. Collier, 1903 |
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... Convention for fram- ing the Constitution of this Commonwealth , in 1780. At the latter end of the same year , he again went abroad in the diplomatic service of the country , and was employed at various courts , and occupied with ...
... Convention for fram- ing the Constitution of this Commonwealth , in 1780. At the latter end of the same year , he again went abroad in the diplomatic service of the country , and was employed at various courts , and occupied with ...
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... Convention of this Com- monwealth called to revise the Constitution . Forty years before , he had been one of those who formed that Constitu . tion ; and he had now the pleasure of witnessing that there was little which the people ...
... Convention of this Com- monwealth called to revise the Constitution . Forty years before , he had been one of those who formed that Constitu . tion ; and he had now the pleasure of witnessing that there was little which the people ...
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... convention . In these connections , the word is void of all meaning ; and yet , sir , it is easy , quite easy , to see why the honorable gentleman has used it in these resolutions . He cannot open the book , and look upon our written ...
... convention . In these connections , the word is void of all meaning ; and yet , sir , it is easy , quite easy , to see why the honorable gentleman has used it in these resolutions . He cannot open the book , and look upon our written ...
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... conventions was , that they " ratified the Constitution " ; some of them employing the additional words " assented to " and " adopted , " but all of them “ rati- fying . " There is more importance than may , at first sight CONSTITUTION ...
... conventions was , that they " ratified the Constitution " ; some of them employing the additional words " assented to " and " adopted , " but all of them “ rati- fying . " There is more importance than may , at first sight CONSTITUTION ...
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... Convention had framed it ; sent it to Congress , then sitting under the Confederation ; Congress had transmitted it to the State Legislatures ; and by these last it was laid before conventions of the people in the several States . All ...
... Convention had framed it ; sent it to Congress , then sitting under the Confederation ; Congress had transmitted it to the State Legislatures ; and by these last it was laid before conventions of the people in the several States . All ...
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211 ページ - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
106 ページ - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
329 ページ - Ah ! Gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe nowhere. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and say it is saf,e.
143 ページ - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
56 ページ - I know there is not a man here, who would not rather see a general conflagration sweep over the land, or an earthquake sink it, than one jot or tittle of that plighted faith fall to the ground. For myself, having, twelve 'months ago, in this place, moved you, that George Washington be appointed commander of the forces raised, or to be raised, for defense of American liberty, may my right hand forget her cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I hesitate or waver in the support I...
307 ページ - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
83 ページ - Canada, acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
7 ページ - ... country. Behold, how altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else, how changed ! 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 ; a thousand...
328 ページ - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes. He has done the murder — no eye has seen him, no ear has heard him. The secret is his own, and it is safe!
25 ページ - Let our conceptions be enlarged to the circle of our duties. Let us extend our ideas over the whole of the vast field in which we are called to act. Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country.