Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Band 1Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1848 |
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... Standing in this relation to our ancestors and our posterity , we are assembled on this memorable spot , to perform the duties which that relation , and the present occasion , impose upon us . We have come to this Rock , to record here ...
... Standing in this relation to our ancestors and our posterity , we are assembled on this memorable spot , to perform the duties which that relation , and the present occasion , impose upon us . We have come to this Rock , to record here ...
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... stand , we also look back and run along the events of the century which has now closed ? The country , which then , as we have seen , was thought deserving of a " noble name ; " which then had " mightily increased , " and become " very ...
... stand , we also look back and run along the events of the century which has now closed ? The country , which then , as we have seen , was thought deserving of a " noble name ; " which then had " mightily increased , " and become " very ...
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... stand against the sovereign , who was himself but the greatest baron , and his retainers . But at present , what could the richest landholder do , against one regiment of disciplined troops ? Other securities , therefore , against the ...
... stand against the sovereign , who was himself but the greatest baron , and his retainers . But at present , what could the richest landholder do , against one regiment of disciplined troops ? Other securities , therefore , against the ...
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... stand here , a hun- dred years hence , to trace , through us , their descent from the Pil- grims , and to survey , as we have now surveyed , the progress of their country , during the lapse of a century . We would anticipate their ...
... stand here , a hun- dred years hence , to trace , through us , their descent from the Pil- grims , and to survey , as we have now surveyed , the progress of their country , during the lapse of a century . We would anticipate their ...
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... stand , a point of attraction to the eyes of successive generations . But we are Americans . We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent ; and we know that our posterity , through all time , are here to suffer ...
... stand , a point of attraction to the eyes of successive generations . But we are Americans . We live in what may be called the early age of this great continent ; and we know that our posterity , through all time , are here to suffer ...
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Seite 128 - By the law of the land, is most clearly intended, the general law; a law, which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Seite 425 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Seite 425 - Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proofs of its utility and its blessings; and although our territory has stretched out wider and wider, and our population spread farther and farther, they have not outrun its protection or its benefits. It has been to us all a copious fountain of national, social, and personal happiness.
Seite 407 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts. She needs none. There she is: behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history : the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston and Concord and Lexington and Bunker Hill, and there they will remain forever.
Seite 59 - We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and parting day linger and play on its summit.
Seite 425 - I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Seite 251 - In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Seite 43 - Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
Seite 86 - ... persisted, till independence is now within our grasp. We have but to reach forth to it, and it is ours. Why then should we defer the declaration? Is any man so weak as now to hope for a reconciliation with England, which shall leave either safety to the country and its liberties, or safety to his own life and his own honor ? Are not you, sir, who sit in that chair, is not he, our venerable colleague...
Seite 61 - Wheresoever among men a heart shall be found that beats to the transports of patriotism and liberty, its aspirations shall be to claim kindred with thy spirit!