Eight Years in Congress, from 1857 to 1865: Memoir and SpeechesD. Appleton, 1865 - 442 páginas |
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... called a Territorial Democracy . When the census becomes 60,000,000 , or 100,000,000 , the questions of municipal independence , State rights , and local self - government may come with more force than ever before . In the judgment of ...
... called a Territorial Democracy . When the census becomes 60,000,000 , or 100,000,000 , the questions of municipal independence , State rights , and local self - government may come with more force than ever before . In the judgment of ...
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... called western interests , one hundred and twenty - five mem- bers out of two hundred and forty - one , if such should be the number of the House . Whatever the number , those States which have a common interest in western agriculture ...
... called western interests , one hundred and twenty - five mem- bers out of two hundred and forty - one , if such should be the number of the House . Whatever the number , those States which have a common interest in western agriculture ...
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... called " mon- sters of imagination begotten on a cloud of statistics . " Why , it would be hardly fair to compare the expenses of ten or five years ago with those of the present . Last year our expenses were over sixty - five millions ...
... called " mon- sters of imagination begotten on a cloud of statistics . " Why , it would be hardly fair to compare the expenses of ten or five years ago with those of the present . Last year our expenses were over sixty - five millions ...
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... called a war measure . Its oppressive character is enormous enough to produce revolution . On the 25th of February , 1861 , I came to this House from a sick bed to protest against the tariff bill then pending . I denounced it as a great ...
... called a war measure . Its oppressive character is enormous enough to produce revolution . On the 25th of February , 1861 , I came to this House from a sick bed to protest against the tariff bill then pending . I denounced it as a great ...
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... called £ 130 . MESSRS . BARRY & BRO . Charges at Liverpool as per margin . To duty on one package , per Africa .... Permit ... Bond . Custom - house charges ... Cartage .. Wharfage . Revenue stamp .. Commission .. BOSTON , April 5 ...
... called £ 130 . MESSRS . BARRY & BRO . Charges at Liverpool as per margin . To duty on one package , per Africa .... Permit ... Bond . Custom - house charges ... Cartage .. Wharfage . Revenue stamp .. Commission .. BOSTON , April 5 ...
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Página 195 - It is a partnership in all science ; a partnership in all art ; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Página 310 - The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment: they should be the creed of our political faith ; the text of civic instruction; the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps, and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety.
Página 194 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our Union, it occurs as matter of serious concern, that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties by geographical discriminations, Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western...
Página 310 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person, under the protection of the habeas corpus : and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 347 - Go through, go through the gates ; prepare ye the way of the people ; cast up, cast up the highway ; gather out the stones ; lift up a standard for the people.
Página 317 - Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it unto Me.
Página 350 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 84 - Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, — a right which, we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
Página 210 - Hast thou given the horse strength? Hast thou clothed his neck with thunder? Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? The glory of his nostrils is terrible. He paweth in the valley, and rejoiceth in his strength: He goeth on to meet the armed men. He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted ; Neither turneth he back from the sword. The quiver rattleth against him, The glittering spear and the shield. He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: Neither believeth he that it is the sound of...