War of the Rebellion; Or, Scylla and CharybdisHarper & Brothers, 1866 - 440 strani |
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Stran 23
... Cicero , of all the ancients , might alone perchance have been able to equal , and which neither Burke , nor Bossuet , nor Fish- er Ames , nor Massillon could have been expected to sur- pass ; and he had met in exciting and stormy.
... Cicero , of all the ancients , might alone perchance have been able to equal , and which neither Burke , nor Bossuet , nor Fish- er Ames , nor Massillon could have been expected to sur- pass ; and he had met in exciting and stormy.
Stran 25
... expected to display a more high- bred courtesy , a more manly and tender sympathy to- ward a former adversary , or a more generous oblivion of former contentions in arms , than is evinced by Mr. Web- ster in the following beautiful ...
... expected to display a more high- bred courtesy , a more manly and tender sympathy to- ward a former adversary , or a more generous oblivion of former contentions in arms , than is evinced by Mr. Web- ster in the following beautiful ...
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... expected to perform them with a true and vigorous fidel- ity . Though Mr. Adams very soon found a fierce and energetic party organized for his overthrow , and though the most strenuous efforts were used by his zealous oppo- JACKSON ...
... expected to perform them with a true and vigorous fidel- ity . Though Mr. Adams very soon found a fierce and energetic party organized for his overthrow , and though the most strenuous efforts were used by his zealous oppo- JACKSON ...
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... expected , I shall essay , as a preliminary proceeding , to describe , in as concise a man- ner as I can , and with as much impartiality , I trust , as if he had lived a thousand years ago , the personage whom the accidents of public ...
... expected , I shall essay , as a preliminary proceeding , to describe , in as concise a man- ner as I can , and with as much impartiality , I trust , as if he had lived a thousand years ago , the personage whom the accidents of public ...
Stran 71
... expected among politicians more solicitous of obeying party obligations and securing personal advancement , than of maintaining principles and promoting the public welfare . Upon the whole , those who have judged him capable of ...
... expected among politicians more solicitous of obeying party obligations and securing personal advancement , than of maintaining principles and promoting the public welfare . Upon the whole , those who have judged him capable of ...
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Stran 341 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends...
Stran 328 - 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...
Stran 251 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Stran 317 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Stran 329 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations...
Stran 331 - If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Stran 330 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Stran 329 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves: and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up
Stran 38 - Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it.
Stran 44 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
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