The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 7Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1887 - Presidents |
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... defense was not painstaking and fair argu- ment , not a careful and wise provision against future chances and evils ; it was fight and physical force , and in this way he attempted throughout his life to correct the misstep he had taken ...
... defense was not painstaking and fair argu- ment , not a careful and wise provision against future chances and evils ; it was fight and physical force , and in this way he attempted throughout his life to correct the misstep he had taken ...
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... defense , to some extent . The cane is certainly not significant of strength or manhood , but the opposite . It is a help to old age , and may be a fit appendage to that in It is not an ornament . To young man or woman . women it might ...
... defense , to some extent . The cane is certainly not significant of strength or manhood , but the opposite . It is a help to old age , and may be a fit appendage to that in It is not an ornament . To young man or woman . women it might ...
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... defense of Burr , and so thoroughly satisfied was he , by this time , that Burr was not guilty of treason , that he was unstinted in his condemnation of Mr. Jefferson . A demand for his testimony in the case was not made . But General ...
... defense of Burr , and so thoroughly satisfied was he , by this time , that Burr was not guilty of treason , that he was unstinted in his condemnation of Mr. Jefferson . A demand for his testimony in the case was not made . But General ...
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... defense , without naming any person ex- cept General Wilkinson . When this was done , I wrote Colonel Burr in strong terms my suspicions of him , and until they were cleared from my mind , no further intimacy was to exist between us . I ...
... defense , without naming any person ex- cept General Wilkinson . When this was done , I wrote Colonel Burr in strong terms my suspicions of him , and until they were cleared from my mind , no further intimacy was to exist between us . I ...
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... defense of his country , than return to the bosom of his family ' and his friends , covered with shame , ignominy , and disgrace . Perish our friends , perish our wives , perish our children ( the dearest pledges of heaven ) , nay ...
... defense of his country , than return to the bosom of his family ' and his friends , covered with shame , ignominy , and disgrace . Perish our friends , perish our wives , perish our children ( the dearest pledges of heaven ) , nay ...
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Page 582 - Congress, imposing duties, shall any appeal be taken or allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose; and...
Page 582 - States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void, and no law," nor binding on the citizens of that state or its officers: and by the said ordinance it is further declared to be unlawful for any of the constituted authorities of the state, or of the United States, to enforce the payment of the duties imposed by the said acts...
Page 586 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain, if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed, and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects, that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest, is, " to form a more perfect Union.
Page 598 - Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your state pride, to your native courage, to your sense of real injury...
Page 582 - Carolina have passed an ordinance by which they declare "that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and more especially...
Page 625 - And, independent of that, as myself an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.
Page 600 - Spreading the lights of religion, morality, and general information into every cottage in this wide extent of our Territories and States. Behold it as the asylum where the wretched and the oppressed find a refuge and support. Look on this picture of happiness and honor and say, We too are citizens of America.
Page 600 - And then add, if you can, without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve, this picture of peace and prosperity we will deface, this free intercourse we will interrupt, these fertile fields we will deluge with blood, the protection of that glorious flag we renounce, the very name of Americans we discard.
Page 458 - The Union : Next to our Liberty the most dear : may we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union.
Page 675 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.