Speeches in the Senate of the United States. Miscellaneous speeches. AppendixLittle, Brown, 1862 |
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... less maturely considered than I could wish . I fear I can add little to the splendid and masterly speech of the Senator from Virginia . [ Mr. Rives . ] I confess that when I read , a few days since , the letter of the Secretary of State ...
... less maturely considered than I could wish . I fear I can add little to the splendid and masterly speech of the Senator from Virginia . [ Mr. Rives . ] I confess that when I read , a few days since , the letter of the Secretary of State ...
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... less indulgence and humanity , ac- cording to circumstances . But criminals , robbers , murderers , by the act of fighting , although the act involved the destruc- tion of property and life , they are not by the theory or prac- tice of ...
... less indulgence and humanity , ac- cording to circumstances . But criminals , robbers , murderers , by the act of fighting , although the act involved the destruc- tion of property and life , they are not by the theory or prac- tice of ...
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... less an act of hostility against Denmark ? Nay , if Denmark had been neutral , and the object had been to cut out a French ship which had fled to Copenhagen for shelter , it would still have been a hostile aggression against Denmark ...
... less an act of hostility against Denmark ? Nay , if Denmark had been neutral , and the object had been to cut out a French ship which had fled to Copenhagen for shelter , it would still have been a hostile aggression against Denmark ...
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... , more magnanimous , more conformable with a strict and punc- tilious proceeding , and a technical law of war , than others . Some of them afford less ground of complaint to the 12 SPEECHES IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE .
... , more magnanimous , more conformable with a strict and punc- tilious proceeding , and a technical law of war , than others . Some of them afford less ground of complaint to the 12 SPEECHES IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE .
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Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown. Some of them afford less ground of complaint to the govern- ment assailed than others . But , for the purpose of personal irresponsibility , they are all one and the same thing . In reason it must be so ...
Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown. Some of them afford less ground of complaint to the govern- ment assailed than others . But , for the purpose of personal irresponsibility , they are all one and the same thing . In reason it must be so ...
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Página 296 - I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry : be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.
Página 171 - IT is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in — glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Página 182 - 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.
Página 318 - But if these things are done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry?
Página 81 - Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes in the British Colonies, for the Purpose of Raising a Revenue by Act of Parliament.
Página 125 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Página 219 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Página 46 - ... The people have declared that, in the exercise of all powers given for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire. — for some purposes sovereign, for...
Página 201 - If the necessary article should in this mode cost more in time of peace, will not the security and independence thence arising form an ample compensation...
Página 56 - And shall also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the Circuit Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States.