American Orations: I. Colonialism. II. Constitutional government. III. The rise of democracy. IV. The rise of nationalityAlexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn G. P. Putnam's sons, 1896 |
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... cause as this I despise a fee ) , I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me , all such instruments of slavery on the one * For notes on Otis see Appendix . p . 337 . hand , and villainy on the ...
... cause as this I despise a fee ) , I will to my dying day oppose with all the powers and faculties God has given me , all such instruments of slavery on the one * For notes on Otis see Appendix . p . 337 . hand , and villainy on the ...
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... cause , as I engaged in it from principle . I was solic- ited to argue this cause as Advocate - General ; and because I would not , I have been charged with desertion from my office . To this charge I can give a very sufficient answer ...
... cause , as I engaged in it from principle . I was solic- ited to argue this cause as Advocate - General ; and because I would not , I have been charged with desertion from my office . To this charge I can give a very sufficient answer ...
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... cause than I ever will take again , although my enga- ging in this and another popular cause has raised much resentment . But I think I can sincerely declare , that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience ' sake ...
... cause than I ever will take again , although my enga- ging in this and another popular cause has raised much resentment . But I think I can sincerely declare , that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience ' sake ...
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... cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we possess , are invin- cible by any force which our enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides over the ...
... cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we possess , are invin- cible by any force which our enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not fight our battles alone . There is a just God who presides over the ...
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... cause of the war . The French seized large quanti- ties of British manufactures , and took posses- sion of a fort which a company of British merchants and factors had erected for the security of their commerce . The war was therefore ...
... cause of the war . The French seized large quanti- ties of British manufactures , and took posses- sion of a fort which a company of British merchants and factors had erected for the security of their commerce . The war was therefore ...
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Página 25 - But there is no peace! The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me — give me liberty, or give me death!
Página 25 - Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!
Página 271 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and...
Página 244 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 304 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; 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...
Página 304 - ... 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. Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, not a single star obscured,...
Página 341 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.
Página 374 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 140 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Página 159 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.