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... President's Protest , Mr. Webster the leader of the Opposition in the Senate , Opening of Van Buren's Administration , The Extra Session , • The Sub - Treasury Scheme , The Domestic Slave - Trade , Mr. Webster's Speech thereon , Second ...
... President's Protest , Mr. Webster the leader of the Opposition in the Senate , Opening of Van Buren's Administration , The Extra Session , • The Sub - Treasury Scheme , The Domestic Slave - Trade , Mr. Webster's Speech thereon , Second ...
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... Presidents , 402 The Admission of California , 408 The Union threatened , 405- The Compromise Measures , 406 Mr ... President Fillmore , 480 Boundaries of Texas , 433 Reply to Hulsemann , 434 Address on laying the Corner Stone of ...
... Presidents , 402 The Admission of California , 408 The Union threatened , 405- The Compromise Measures , 406 Mr ... President Fillmore , 480 Boundaries of Texas , 433 Reply to Hulsemann , 434 Address on laying the Corner Stone of ...
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... presidents , ex- cepting Washington , or upon any five of the most distinguished of those of his American cotemporaries that survive him ; and yet , it is certainly to be doubted whether all that has been ut- tered , privately and ...
... presidents , ex- cepting Washington , or upon any five of the most distinguished of those of his American cotemporaries that survive him ; and yet , it is certainly to be doubted whether all that has been ut- tered , privately and ...
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... president of the United States be re- quested to inform the house , unless the public interest should , in his opinion , forbid such communication , when , by whom , and in what manner the first intelligence was given to this govern ...
... president of the United States be re- quested to inform the house , unless the public interest should , in his opinion , forbid such communication , when , by whom , and in what manner the first intelligence was given to this govern ...
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... president of the United States be re- quested to inform this house , whether the minister of France near the United States ever informed this government of the existence of the said decree of the 28th of April , 1811 , and to lay before ...
... president of the United States be re- quested to inform this house , whether the minister of France near the United States ever informed this government of the existence of the said decree of the 28th of April , 1811 , and to lay before ...
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Page 278 - 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!
Page 57 - The clear conception, outrunning the deductions of logic, the high purpose, the firm resolve, the dauntless spirit, speaking on the tongue, beaming from the eye, informing every feature, and urging the whole man onward, right onward to his object—this, this is eloquence; or rather it is something greater and higher than all eloquence, it is action, noble, sublime, godlike action.
Page 278 - Liberty first and Union afterward"; 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...
Page 336 - Croix River to the Highlands, along the said Highlands which divide those Rivers that empty themselves into the River St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the North-westernmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 336 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 348 - The parties mutually stipulate that each shall prepare, equip, and maintain in service, on the coast of Africa, a sufficient and adequate squadron, or naval force of vessels, of suitable numbers and descriptions, to carry in all not less than eighty guns, to enforce, separately and respectively, the laws, rights, and obligations, of each of the two countries, for the suppression of the slave trade...
Page 306 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar offj they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 233 - An act in addition to an act more effectually to provide for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States, and for other purposes...
Page 336 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 26 - ... revolutionary war, shrunk from no danger, no toil, no sacrifice, to serve his country, and to raise his children to a condition better than his own, may my name and the name of my posterity be blotted forever from the memory of mankind ! [Mr.
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