The Works of Daniel Webster: Speeches on various occasionsCharles C. Little and James Brown, 1851 - United States |
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... manufactures ; and , as purchas- ers , they should , it would seem , be satisfied with the low prices of which the sellers complain ; but in these portions , too , of the country , there are dissatisfaction and discontent . Everywhere ...
... manufactures ; and , as purchas- ers , they should , it would seem , be satisfied with the low prices of which the sellers complain ; but in these portions , too , of the country , there are dissatisfaction and discontent . Everywhere ...
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... to consume what they raise . The manufacturers of the North and East need the grain of the Middle States , and the cotton of the South , and these in turn buy the manufactures of the East . MASS MEETING AT SARATOGA . 7.
... to consume what they raise . The manufacturers of the North and East need the grain of the Middle States , and the cotton of the South , and these in turn buy the manufactures of the East . MASS MEETING AT SARATOGA . 7.
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Daniel Webster. these in turn buy the manufactures of the East . Nor is this sole- ly matter of interest , but it is in some degree brought about by the regulations of foreign governments . Our manufactures find no sale in Europe ; and ...
Daniel Webster. these in turn buy the manufactures of the East . Nor is this sole- ly matter of interest , but it is in some degree brought about by the regulations of foreign governments . Our manufactures find no sale in Europe ; and ...
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... manufactures and industry for their livelihood , must rejoice to find the tariff , so necessary to these , no party question . Can they desire , can they wish , that such a great object as the protection of industry should become a ...
... manufactures and industry for their livelihood , must rejoice to find the tariff , so necessary to these , no party question . Can they desire , can they wish , that such a great object as the protection of industry should become a ...
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... manufacture import- ed from abroad . And first , as to the currency . All agree that Congress pos- sesses the power to regulate commerce , for that provision is found in the Constitution in terms ; and that it has the power to coin ...
... manufacture import- ed from abroad . And first , as to the currency . All agree that Congress pos- sesses the power to regulate commerce , for that provision is found in the Constitution in terms ; and that it has the power to coin ...
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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.