Sketches of the Lives of Franklin Pierce and Wm. R. King, Candidates of the Democratic Republican Party for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United StatesNational Democratic Executive Committee, 1852 - 36 Seiten |
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... command the approbation of my judgment ; and with them I believe I can safely say there has been no word nor act of my life in conflict . I have only to tender my grateful acknowledgments to you , gentlemen , to the convention of which ...
... command the approbation of my judgment ; and with them I believe I can safely say there has been no word nor act of my life in conflict . I have only to tender my grateful acknowledgments to you , gentlemen , to the convention of which ...
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... respect and confidence of my democratic brethren commands my most grateful acknowledgments , and I cheerfully accept the nomination with which I have been honored . Throughout a long public life I am not conscious that 177.
... respect and confidence of my democratic brethren commands my most grateful acknowledgments , and I cheerfully accept the nomination with which I have been honored . Throughout a long public life I am not conscious that 177.
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... commands respect and the qualities that attract regard , that he might without presumption have aspired to any place in the gift of his country- men . But these considerations did not move him . He laid aside his senatorial robe without ...
... commands respect and the qualities that attract regard , that he might without presumption have aspired to any place in the gift of his country- men . But these considerations did not move him . He laid aside his senatorial robe without ...
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... command . And he also possesses quali- ties as a statesman of the highest order . That he will distinguish himself wherever distinction is to be won , his multitude of acquaintances , in all the States of the Union , of all parties ...
... command . And he also possesses quali- ties as a statesman of the highest order . That he will distinguish himself wherever distinction is to be won , his multitude of acquaintances , in all the States of the Union , of all parties ...
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... command rendered absolutely neces- sary , he left Vera Cruz in the middle of the hot month of July , with one of the largest reinforcements and most extensive trains that had started for the interior since General Scott's departure ...
... command rendered absolutely neces- sary , he left Vera Cruz in the middle of the hot month of July , with one of the largest reinforcements and most extensive trains that had started for the interior since General Scott's departure ...
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Seite 68 - Resolved, That the foregoing proposition covers, and is intended to embrace, the whole subject of Slavery agitation in Congress, and, therefore, the Democratic party of the Union, standing on this National platform, will abide by and adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known as the Compromise measures settled by the last Congress — the act for reclaiming fugitives from service or labor...
Seite 68 - Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Seite 10 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Seite 68 - That Congress has no power to charter a national bank ; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and that above the laws and the will of the people...
Seite 68 - That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of Liberty, and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith...
Seite 68 - Legislature in 1799 — that it adopts these principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed, and is resolved to carry them out in their obvious meaning and import.
Seite 68 - That the Constitution does not confer authority upon the Federal Government, directly or indirectly, to assume the debts of the several States, contracted for local and internal improvements, or other State purposes; nor would such assumption be just or expedient.
Seite 50 - Go, wiser thou ! and in thy scale of sense Weigh thy opinion against Providence ; Call imperfection what thou fanciest such, Say, here he gives too little, there too much...
Seite 67 - ... we contrast it with the creed and practice of Federalism, under whatever name or form, which seeks to palsy the will of the constituent, and which conceives no imposture too monstrous for the popular credulity.
Seite 68 - That the democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.