The Works of Daniel Webster: Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts, and speeches in CongressCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1851 |
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... favor with which they may now be received by the public will be as earnestly regarded , I am sure , by you as by myself . The opportunity seems , also , a fit one for expressing the high and warm regard which I ever entertained for your ...
... favor with which they may now be received by the public will be as earnestly regarded , I am sure , by you as by myself . The opportunity seems , also , a fit one for expressing the high and warm regard which I ever entertained for your ...
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... favor of one because he is a Christian , and against the other because he is not . They may repeat this preference at the next election , on the same ground , and may continue it from year to year . Now , if the people may , without ...
... favor of one because he is a Christian , and against the other because he is not . They may repeat this preference at the next election , on the same ground , and may continue it from year to year . Now , if the people may , without ...
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... favor of maintaining it . In my opinion , Sir , there are two questions before the com- mittee . The first is , Shall the legislative department be con- * Mr. Childs . † Mr. Lincoln . structed with any other check than such as arises ...
... favor of maintaining it . In my opinion , Sir , there are two questions before the com- mittee . The first is , Shall the legislative department be con- * Mr. Childs . † Mr. Lincoln . structed with any other check than such as arises ...
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... favor of property , as well as of other rights . It was brought about by the men of property for their security ; and our own immortal Revolution was undertaken , not to shake or plunder property , but to protect it . The acts of which ...
... favor of property , as well as of other rights . It was brought about by the men of property for their security ; and our own immortal Revolution was undertaken , not to shake or plunder property , but to protect it . The acts of which ...
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... favor of society , or in favor of the people , to con- stitute government with an entire disregard to those who bear the public burdens in times of great exigency . This question has been argued , as if it were proposed only to give an ...
... favor of society , or in favor of the people , to con- stitute government with an entire disregard to those who bear the public burdens in times of great exigency . This question has been argued , as if it were proposed only to give an ...
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342 ページ - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, TO fee whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
476 ページ - Do in the name and in behalf of the People of Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
501 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.
455 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.
200 ページ - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America...
340 ページ - Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do any thing for themselves ; they imagine there is no safety for them any longer than they are under the close guardianship of the state legislatures. Sir, the people have not trusted their safety, in regard to the general constitution, to these hands. They have required other security, and taken other bonds. They have chosen to trust themselves, first, to the plain words of the instrument, and to such construction as the government...
255 ページ - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
498 ページ - To grant patents for useful inventions. "To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time. "To establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.
332 ページ - I must call it, which the honorable member espouses, this Union would, in all probability, have been scattered to the four winds. I ask the gentleman, therefore, to apply his principles to that case ; I ask him to come forth and declare whether, in his opinion, the New England States would have been justified in interfering to break up the embargo system, under the conscientious opinions which they held upon it.
270 ページ - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.