Famous American Statesmen & Orators, Past and Present: With Biographical Sketches and Their Famous Orations, المجلد 3F.F. Lovell Publishing Company, 1902 |
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... Congress , in restoring peace and order to our common country . I cannot , perhaps , help wish- ing , sir , that these indications of an interest in the preservation of our government had come somewhat sooner . I cannot help feeling ...
... Congress , in restoring peace and order to our common country . I cannot , perhaps , help wish- ing , sir , that these indications of an interest in the preservation of our government had come somewhat sooner . I cannot help feeling ...
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... Congress in such measures as may be deemed most fit and proper for the accomplishment of that result . I am glad to assume and to believe that there is not a member of this House , nor a man in this country , who does not wish , from ...
... Congress in such measures as may be deemed most fit and proper for the accomplishment of that result . I am glad to assume and to believe that there is not a member of this House , nor a man in this country , who does not wish , from ...
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... Congress or the government of the United States may see fit to prescribe . If I believed in the premises which he assumes , possibly , though I do not think probably , I might agree with the conclusion he has reached . But , sir , I ...
... Congress or the government of the United States may see fit to prescribe . If I believed in the premises which he assumes , possibly , though I do not think probably , I might agree with the conclusion he has reached . But , sir , I ...
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... Congress , or this House , or the gentleman from Pennsylvania himself , ever conceded that those States were beyond the jurisdiction of the constitution and laws of the United States . · Why , sir , if there be no constitution of any ...
... Congress , or this House , or the gentleman from Pennsylvania himself , ever conceded that those States were beyond the jurisdiction of the constitution and laws of the United States . · Why , sir , if there be no constitution of any ...
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... congress , 1854-60 . Appointed minister to Austria in 1861 that country declined to receive him on account of his eloquent speeches in behalf of Hungarian independence and his proposal in congress that Sardinia should be recognized as a ...
... congress , 1854-60 . Appointed minister to Austria in 1861 that country declined to receive him on account of his eloquent speeches in behalf of Hungarian independence and his proposal in congress that Sardinia should be recognized as a ...
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الصفحة 197 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
الصفحة 90 - THE (WEST,) AND SHALL SIT DOWN WITH (A)BRAHAM, AND (I)SAAC, AND (J)ACOB, IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. BUT THE CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM SHALL BE CAST OUT INTO OUTER DARKNESS: THERE SHALL BE WEEPING AND GNASHING OF TEETH.
الصفحة 90 - Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
الصفحة 288 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech.
الصفحة 219 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
الصفحة 280 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
الصفحة 203 - In Carolina the tariff is a palpable, deliberate usurpation ; Carolina, therefore, may nullify it, and refuse to pay the duties. In Pennsylvania it is both clearly constitutional and highly expedient ; and there the duties are to be paid. And yet we live under a government of uniform laws, and under a constitution, too, which contains an express provision, as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity...
الصفحة 8 - This government de facto will, of course, exercise no power inconsistent with the provisions of the constitution of the United States, which is the supreme law of the land.
الصفحة 54 - We have repeatedly said, and we once more insist, that the great principle embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, ' that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed...
الصفحة 225 - He would answer, of course, treason. No lawyer could give any other answer. John Fries, he would tell them, had learned that some years ago. How, then, they would ask, do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets, but treason has a way of taking people off, that we do not much relish. How do you propose to defend us ? " Look at my floating banner," he would reply; " see there "the nullifying law!