The Statesmen of America in 1846Carey and Hart, 1847 - 261 páginas |
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... course of public affairs . No re- straints of law could prevent any similar institution from being the willing instrument used for similar purposes . The state of Tennessee , through her legislature , has repeatedly declared her settled ...
... course of public affairs . No re- straints of law could prevent any similar institution from being the willing instrument used for similar purposes . The state of Tennessee , through her legislature , has repeatedly declared her settled ...
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... course of human events , Texas has again been pre- sented to us for our acceptance . When we ceded it to Spain , it was almost a wilderness ; but it is now peopled by our sons , our brothers , and our kindred , who have convinced the ...
... course of human events , Texas has again been pre- sented to us for our acceptance . When we ceded it to Spain , it was almost a wilderness ; but it is now peopled by our sons , our brothers , and our kindred , who have convinced the ...
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... course in vice , with gratified and cu rious interest ; he has sometimes shown me that even in the perpetration of the most hideous crimes , the offender may yet be human . Like most men of fervent character , it is in criminal causes ...
... course in vice , with gratified and cu rious interest ; he has sometimes shown me that even in the perpetration of the most hideous crimes , the offender may yet be human . Like most men of fervent character , it is in criminal causes ...
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... course , involuntary , is observed only in men , and is always accompanied by the most acute sensi- bilities . The Governor is the constant and ardent advocate of uni- versal education , and he is ever true to the republican prin- ciple ...
... course , involuntary , is observed only in men , and is always accompanied by the most acute sensi- bilities . The Governor is the constant and ardent advocate of uni- versal education , and he is ever true to the republican prin- ciple ...
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... course would have been , after proving that he had committed the crime , to place him in close confinement for life . William Seward was , perhaps , the only man who would have under- taken the defence of this miscreant , and he was ...
... course would have been , after proving that he had committed the crime , to place him in close confinement for life . William Seward was , perhaps , the only man who would have under- taken the defence of this miscreant , and he was ...
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Página 101 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 100 - That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke, as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Página 101 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below; nor could I regard him as a safe...
Página 97 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last, if...
Página 96 - Shoulder to shoulder they went through the Revolution; hand in hand they stood round the administration of Washington, and felt his own great arm lean on them for support. Unkind feeling, if it exist, alienation and distrust, are the growth, unnatural to such soils, of false principles since sown. They are weeds, the seeds of which that same great arm never scattered.
Página 101 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 101 - ... of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as What is...
Página 200 - That Missouri shall be admitted into this Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever upon the fundamental condition that the fourth clause of the twenty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution, submitted on the part of said State to Congress, shall never be construed to authorize the passage of any law, and that no law shall be passed in conformity thereto, by which any citizen of either of the States...
Página 100 - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country.
Página 99 - But who shall decide this question of interference? To whom lies the last appeal? This, Sir, the Constitution itself decides also, by declaring "that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States.