American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 1D. Appleton and Company, 1857 - American Orators |
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... produce civil war ; civil war , foreign alliances ; and that foreign alliances must necessarily end in subjugation to the powers called in . He conjured the people to pause and consider well , before they rushed into such a desperate ...
... produce civil war ; civil war , foreign alliances ; and that foreign alliances must necessarily end in subjugation to the powers called in . He conjured the people to pause and consider well , before they rushed into such a desperate ...
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... produce ? They are unlimited and unbounded power of taxation . out of the sight of the common people : they cannot foresee latent consequences . I dread the operation of it on the middling and lower classes of people : it is for them I ...
... produce ? They are unlimited and unbounded power of taxation . out of the sight of the common people : they cannot foresee latent consequences . I dread the operation of it on the middling and lower classes of people : it is for them I ...
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... produce such dreadful oppression , as the people cannot possibly bear . The federal sheriff may commit what oppression , make what dis- tresses , he pleases , and ruin you with impunity : for how are you to tie his hands ? Have you any ...
... produce such dreadful oppression , as the people cannot possibly bear . The federal sheriff may commit what oppression , make what dis- tresses , he pleases , and ruin you with impunity : for how are you to tie his hands ? Have you any ...
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... produce its unconditional , instantaneous adoption . The locality of the seat of government , ten miles square , and ... produce these things , it will consequently produce a reform , and en- able you to pay your debts . Gentlemen must ...
... produce its unconditional , instantaneous adoption . The locality of the seat of government , ten miles square , and ... produce these things , it will consequently produce a reform , and en- able you to pay your debts . Gentlemen must ...
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... produce perilous conse- quences . I see nothing very terrible in this . The adoption of the new system will not re- move the evil . Will they forfeit good neigh- borhood with us , because the compact is broken ? Then the disputes ...
... produce perilous conse- quences . I see nothing very terrible in this . The adoption of the new system will not re- move the evil . Will they forfeit good neigh- borhood with us , because the compact is broken ? Then the disputes ...
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Page 249 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 250 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.
Page 246 - Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 248 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds...
Page 249 - The Nation, which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest. Antipathy in one nation against another...
Page 250 - ... the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 244 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom...
Page 245 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country ; and that in withdrawing the tender of service which silence in my situation might imply, I am influenced by no diminution of zeal for your future interest ; no deficiency of grateful respect for your past kindness; but am supported by a full conviction that the step is compatible...
Page 246 - Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions, will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment.
Page 247 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterward the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.