The Life of Thomas Morris: Pioneer and Long a Legislator of Ohio, and U. S. Senator from 1833 to 1839

Capa
Benjamin Franklin Morris
Moore, Wilstach, Keys & Overend, 1856 - 396 páginas
 

Páginas seleccionadas

Outras edições - Ver tudo

Palavras e frases frequentes

Passagens conhecidas

Página 300 - which might be lost by a steady adherence to it. Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtues ? The experiment, at least is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! it is rendered impossible by its vices.
Página 190 - being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest instead of warming it should consume.
Página 124 - purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them by murdering the people on whom he has also obtruded them, thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.
Página 325 - In all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies North of thirty-six degrees, and thirty minutes of North Latitude, not included within the limits of the State of Missouri, slavery and involuntary servitude shall be
Página 313 - Resolved, That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and embodied in the Federal Constitution, are essential to the preservation of our ^Republican institutions and the Federal Constitution: the rights of the States and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved. Resolved, That with our
Página 124 - execrable commerce, and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms against us, and purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them by murdering the people on whom he has
Página 64 - when we have removed the only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people, that their liberties are the gift of God. Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; and that justice
Página 337 - 'Slaves can not breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.
Página 99 - entered into the compact of union proposed in the Constitution, with the view to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity;
Página 184 - requested, to present the foregoing resolutions to their respective Houses, and use their influence to carry the same into effect. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the President of the United States, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. STATE OF

Informação bibliográfica