The Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, Federalist, 1765-1848, Band 2

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Houghton Mifflin, 1913
 

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Seite 258 - I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation.
Seite 231 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Seite 308 - E'en wondered at because he dropt no sooner; Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating Time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still.
Seite 54 - Resolved, as the sense of the Senate of Massachusetts, that in a war like the present, waged without justifiable cause, and prosecuted in a manner which indicates that conquest and ambition are its real motives, it is not becoming a moral and religious people to express any approbation of military or naval exploits which are not immediately connected with the defence of our sea-coast and soil.
Seite 262 - Some time afterward, it was reported to me by the city officers that they had ferreted out the paper and its editor; that his office was an obscure hole, his only visible auxiliary a negro boy, and his supporters a few very insignificant persona of all colors.
Seite 56 - Massachusetts issued a proclamation (June 26, 1812) for a public fast for a wrong committed "against the nation from which we are descended and which for many generations has been the bulwark of the religion we possess.
Seite 247 - That their object was, and had been for several years, a dissolution of the Union, and the establishment of a separate confederation...
Seite 149 - Finally, if the Union be destined to dissolution, by reason of the multiplied abuses of bad administrations, it should, if possible, be the work of peaceable times, and deliberate consent. Some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those states which shall intend to maintain a federal relation to each other. Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and permanent.
Seite 127 - No man, no association of men, no state or set of states has a right to withdraw itself from this Union, of its own accord.
Seite 23 - Milan decrees were revoked, and that their operation would cease from the 1st day of November following, provided his majesty would revoke his orders in council, and renounce the new principles of blockade ; or that the United States would cause their rights to be respected ; meaning thereby, that they would resist the retaliatory measures of Great Britain.

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