Monument to the Memory of General Andrew Jackson: Containing Twenty-five Eulogies and Sermons Delivered on Occasion of His Death. To which is Added an Appendix, Containing General Jackson's Proclamation, His Farewell Address, and a Certified Copy of His Last Will. The Whole Preceded by a Short Sketch of His LifeWalker & Gillis, 1846 - 410 Seiten |
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... united under Colonel Davies . A plan was arranged by Sumter and Davies , which had for its object the destruction of the British garrisons at Rocky Mount and Hanging Rock . Sumter made three bold attacks on the former post on the 30th ...
... united under Colonel Davies . A plan was arranged by Sumter and Davies , which had for its object the destruction of the British garrisons at Rocky Mount and Hanging Rock . Sumter made three bold attacks on the former post on the 30th ...
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... a wider sphere of action . He received the appointment of major - general in the army of the United States , and was made a commissioner to GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON . 27 Eulogy by Hon George Bancroft Washington City, June 27 66.
... a wider sphere of action . He received the appointment of major - general in the army of the United States , and was made a commissioner to GENERAL ANDREW JACKSON . 27 Eulogy by Hon George Bancroft Washington City, June 27 66.
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... United States , and was made a commissioner to negotiate a treaty of peace and alliance with the Creeks . While performing this duty , he noticed the protection and encouragement which the hostile Indians had hitherto and still received ...
... United States , and was made a commissioner to negotiate a treaty of peace and alliance with the Creeks . While performing this duty , he noticed the protection and encouragement which the hostile Indians had hitherto and still received ...
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... United States soldiers ; but being attacked by some of the public journals for what they considered a violation of international law , he repaired to Washington , to explain more fully his trans- actions . He was received in that city ...
... United States soldiers ; but being attacked by some of the public journals for what they considered a violation of international law , he repaired to Washington , to explain more fully his trans- actions . He was received in that city ...
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... UNITED STATES . That age THE men of the American Revolution are no more ! of creative power has passed away . The last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence has long since left the earth . Washington lies near his own ...
... UNITED STATES . That age THE men of the American Revolution are no more ! of creative power has passed away . The last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence has long since left the earth . Washington lies near his own ...
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Seite 338 - For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: 6 That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born : who should arise and declare them to their children: 7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the' works of God, but keep his commandments...
Seite 66 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Seite 55 - How sleep the Brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest! When Spring, with dewy fingers cold, Returns to deck their hallowed mould, She there shall dress a sweeter sod Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
Seite 366 - States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void, and no law," nor binding on the citizens of that state or its officers; and by the said Ordinance it is further declared to be unlawful for any of the constituted authorities of the state or of the United States, to enforce the payment of the duties imposed by the said acts...
Seite 147 - ... upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Seite 370 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain, if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed, and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects, that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest, is, " to form a more perfect Union.
Seite 146 - The unity of Government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so; for it is a inain pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very Liberty, which you so highly prize.
Seite 378 - Will the inhabitants of the inland States agree to pay the duties that may be imposed without their assent by those on the Atlantic or the Gulf, for their own benefit? Shall there be a free port in one State, and onerous duties in another? No one believes that any right exists in a single State to involve all the others in these and countless other evils contrary to the engagements solemnly made. Every one must see that the other States, in self defence, must oppose it at all hazards.
Seite 368 - ... for all imposts must be equal. It is no answer to repeat that an unconstitutional law is no law, so long as the question of its legality is to be decided by the state itself; for every law operating injuriously upon any local interest will be perhaps thought, and certainly represented, as unconstitutional; and, as has been shown, there is no appeal. If this doctrine had been established at an earlier day, the Union would have been dissolved in its infancy.
Seite 369 - ... if the States who supposed it a ruinous and unconstitutional measure had thought they possessed the right of nullifying the act by which it was declared, and denying supplies for its prosecution. Hardly and unequally as those measures bore upon several members of the Union, to the Legislatures of none did this efficient and peaceable remedy, as it is called, suggest itself. The discovery of this important feature in our Constitution was reserved to the present day. To the statesmen of South Carolina...