Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, Volume 11Bigelow Brothers, 1907 - Buffalo (N.Y.) |
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... Clay , in 1844 , and you have alluded to the cause of that defeat in our own State . There , gentlemen , was the wound inflicted that began the destruction of the Whig party . There was the canker worm that gnawed it to the heart , and ...
... Clay , in 1844 , and you have alluded to the cause of that defeat in our own State . There , gentlemen , was the wound inflicted that began the destruction of the Whig party . There was the canker worm that gnawed it to the heart , and ...
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... Clay , " I would rather be right than be President . " It seems to me impossible that those engaged in this , can have contemplated the awful consequences of success . If it breaks asunder the bonds of our Union , and spreads anarchy ...
... Clay , " I would rather be right than be President . " It seems to me impossible that those engaged in this , can have contemplated the awful consequences of success . If it breaks asunder the bonds of our Union , and spreads anarchy ...
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... Clay . He was my earliest and most devoted friend , and I was his ; and I can never revert to his memory without reverence and respect . I beg your pardon , gentlemen - I came here with no pre- pared address ; the time is long passed ...
... Clay . He was my earliest and most devoted friend , and I was his ; and I can never revert to his memory without reverence and respect . I beg your pardon , gentlemen - I came here with no pre- pared address ; the time is long passed ...
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... Clay or Web- ster stood any chance of success . But here is " Old Specks " doing infinite mischief on this subject . With a zeal worthy of a better cause , an industry that never tires , and a devotion to Clay that dispair itself could ...
... Clay or Web- ster stood any chance of success . But here is " Old Specks " doing infinite mischief on this subject . With a zeal worthy of a better cause , an industry that never tires , and a devotion to Clay that dispair itself could ...
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... Clay should have the course , and Clays think Webster should , and all honest and intelligent men agree with both . I think it doubtful whether White could get the north if he runs . If he is distinctly the Southern candidate against ...
... Clay should have the course , and Clays think Webster should , and all honest and intelligent men agree with both . I think it doubtful whether White could get the north if he runs . If he is distinctly the Southern candidate against ...
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Page 17 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Page 139 - Honor and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
Page 498 - If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies; And they are fools who roam : The world has nothing to bestow ; From our own selves our joys must flow, And that dear hut, our home.
Page 518 - With the Gypsies in Spain," by Frank H. Severance. " 14. "Conditions of Child Labor in Buffalo," by Miss Mabel Gillespie. " 21. "The last twelve days of fighting between the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia, as seen by a private,
Page 137 - I dissent, therefore, from that part of the opinion of the majority of the court, in which it is held that a person of African descent cannot be a citizen of the United States...
Page 488 - If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time save Slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy Slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy Slavery.
Page 101 - Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days ! None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise.
Page 17 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 298 - That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 21 - Dixon's line be not worthy to be president or vice-president, would it be proper to select one from the same quarter as one of his cabinet council, or to represent the nation in a foreign country, or, indeed, to collect the revenue, or administer the laws of the United States? If not, what new rule is the President to adopt in selecting men for office that the people themselves discard in selecting him?