Orations and Arguments by English and American StatesmenCornelius Beach Bradley |
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... maintain the rights or honor of my country , I would strip the shirt from my back to support it . But in such a war as this , unjust in its principle , impracti- cable in its means , and ruinous in its consequences , I would not ...
... maintain the rights or honor of my country , I would strip the shirt from my back to support it . But in such a war as this , unjust in its principle , impracti- cable in its means , and ruinous in its consequences , I would not ...
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... maintain your own . I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character . I invoke the genius of the Constitution . 25 From the tapestry that adorns these walls , the immortal ancestor of this noble ...
... maintain your own . I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character . I invoke the genius of the Constitution . 25 From the tapestry that adorns these walls , the immortal ancestor of this noble ...
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... maintained your interest , against your opinions , with a constancy that became me . A representative worthy of you ... maintain , by a grave fore- sight , and by an equitable temperance in the use of its power . The next article of ...
... maintained your interest , against your opinions , with a constancy that became me . A representative worthy of you ... maintain , by a grave fore- sight , and by an equitable temperance in the use of its power . The next article of ...
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... maintain itself for an hour without trampling upon both ; he may and must have offended against the laws of God and nature if he was the faithful viceroy of an empire wrested in blood 5 from the people to whom God and nature had given ...
... maintain itself for an hour without trampling upon both ; he may and must have offended against the laws of God and nature if he was the faithful viceroy of an empire wrested in blood 5 from the people to whom God and nature had given ...
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... maintained by the finer sympathies of life , or the practice of its charities and affections . What will they do for you when surrounded 25 by two hundred thousand men , with artillery , cavalry , and elephants , calling upon you for ...
... maintained by the finer sympathies of life , or the practice of its charities and affections . What will they do for you when surrounded 25 by two hundred thousand men , with artillery , cavalry , and elephants , calling upon you for ...
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Page 221 - ... as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther 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,...
Page 249 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in 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!
Page 15 - ... through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, — I feel all the pride of power sink, and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt, and die away within me. My rigor relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Page 249 - 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, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as
Page 79 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
Page 15 - Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of hardy industry to the extent to which it has been pushed by this recent people ; a people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Page 106 - ... to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend to the neglected, to visit the forsaken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries.
Page 73 - ... directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master...
Page 106 - I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the...
Page 249 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...