The Life of William H. Seward with Selections from His WorksGeorge E. Baker Redfield, 1855 - 410 Seiten |
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... less - favored classes , depressed by unequal laws - or in aiming to carry into remote or sequestered regions the physical and com- mercial advantages enjoyed by more - favored districts , he has urged too earnestly what seemed to him ...
... less - favored classes , depressed by unequal laws - or in aiming to carry into remote or sequestered regions the physical and com- mercial advantages enjoyed by more - favored districts , he has urged too earnestly what seemed to him ...
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... less as an adroit and energetic controversialist , than as a classical scholar of consummate accomplishments . An incident , showing his standing in the college , and his early development of talent , was thus described by a public ...
... less as an adroit and energetic controversialist , than as a classical scholar of consummate accomplishments . An incident , showing his standing in the college , and his early development of talent , was thus described by a public ...
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... less justice than vigor in the following sketch of his early professional life , written several years since for one of the periodicals of the day : - " The practice of the law in the country must not be estimated by the practice in the ...
... less justice than vigor in the following sketch of his early professional life , written several years since for one of the periodicals of the day : - " The practice of the law in the country must not be estimated by the practice in the ...
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... less ardent temperament than his own , opposition would have seemed hopeless . A resolution was brought into the senate , at the com- mencement of the session , against renewing the charter of the United States bank . Soon after , a ...
... less ardent temperament than his own , opposition would have seemed hopeless . A resolution was brought into the senate , at the com- mencement of the session , against renewing the charter of the United States bank . Soon after , a ...
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... less than three months , and produce nearly eighty letters ( filling upward of nine hundred manuscript pages ) of equal interest and intelligence ? " These letters exhibit a refined taste , great acuteness of observation , and a genial ...
... less than three months , and produce nearly eighty letters ( filling upward of nine hundred manuscript pages ) of equal interest and intelligence ? " These letters exhibit a refined taste , great acuteness of observation , and a genial ...
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Seite 124 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Seite 361 - Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories...
Seite 246 - Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slave-holding states the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every state in the Union into which they might escape from the state where they were held in servitude.
Seite 389 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the Religion which they profess.
Seite 364 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Seite 154 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been deemed proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European power.
Seite 252 - September 15, page 550, article 4, section ,2, the third paragraph, the term 'legally' was struck out, and the words 'under the laws thereof inserted after the word 'state...
Seite 370 - New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.
Seite 212 - I do not hesitate, therefore, to- recommend the establishment of schools in which they may be instructed by teachers speaking the same language with themselves, and professing the same faith.
Seite 212 - ... religion. It ought never to be forgotten that the public welfare is as deeply concerned in their education as in that of our own children. I do not hesitate, therefore, to recommend the establishment of schools in which they may be instructed by teachers speaking the same language with themselves...