The Works of Daniel Webster: Speeches on various occasionsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1851 - United States |
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... Citizens of Buffalo and the County of Erie , at a Public Reception on the 22d of May , 1851 , p . 544 . SPEECH TO THE YOUNG MEN OF ALBANY Delivered on the 28th of May , 1851 , at the Invitation of the Young Men of Albany , in the Public ...
... Citizens of Buffalo and the County of Erie , at a Public Reception on the 22d of May , 1851 , p . 544 . SPEECH TO THE YOUNG MEN OF ALBANY Delivered on the 28th of May , 1851 , at the Invitation of the Young Men of Albany , in the Public ...
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... citizens throughout the Union . If the operation of the State banks cannot produce this result , the probable operation of a national bank will merit consideration , " & c . At that session , Congress incorporated the Bank of the United ...
... citizens throughout the Union . If the operation of the State banks cannot produce this result , the probable operation of a national bank will merit consideration , " & c . At that session , Congress incorporated the Bank of the United ...
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... citizens , we must submit . inconvenient , I will say , oppressive . three fourths of the surface of the United States to comply with this provision ? Here , in commercial neighborhoods , and in large cities , and where the banks pay ...
... citizens , we must submit . inconvenient , I will say , oppressive . three fourths of the surface of the United States to comply with this provision ? Here , in commercial neighborhoods , and in large cities , and where the banks pay ...
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... citizens ? Where in Europe , where in any part of the world out of our own country , shall we find labor thus rewarded , and the general condition of the people so good ? Nowhere ; nowhere ! Away , then , with the injustice and the ...
... citizens ? Where in Europe , where in any part of the world out of our own country , shall we find labor thus rewarded , and the general condition of the people so good ? Nowhere ; nowhere ! Away , then , with the injustice and the ...
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... citizens , we have all sober and important duties to perform . I have not addressed you to - day for the purpose of ... citizen will feel himself chained to the wheels of any party , nor bound to follow it , against his conscience and ...
... citizens , we have all sober and important duties to perform . I have not addressed you to - day for the purpose of ... citizen will feel himself chained to the wheels of any party , nor bound to follow it , against his conscience and ...
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Page 235 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 602 - What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 510 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 510 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
Page 437 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
Page 522 - Faith, &.c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 397 - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 225 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 224 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Page 230 - Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.