The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, diplomatic and official papers, and miscellaneous lettersC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... Vigilance , however , continued to hold frequent meetings in order to discover further proof , for it was doubted by many whether the evidence already obtained would be sufficient to convict THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE . 43.
... Vigilance , however , continued to hold frequent meetings in order to discover further proof , for it was doubted by many whether the evidence already obtained would be sufficient to convict THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE . 43.
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Daniel Webster. whether the evidence already obtained would be sufficient to convict the accused . A fortnight afterwards , on the 15th of May , Captain Joseph J. Knapp , a shipmaster and merchant , a man of good character , received by ...
Daniel Webster. whether the evidence already obtained would be sufficient to convict the accused . A fortnight afterwards , on the 15th of May , Captain Joseph J. Knapp , a shipmaster and merchant , a man of good character , received by ...
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... evidence was strong that there was a con- spiracy to commit the murder , that the prisoner was one of the con- spirators , that at the time of the murder he was in Brown Street at the rear of Mr. White's garden , and the jury were ...
... evidence was strong that there was a con- spiracy to commit the murder , that the prisoner was one of the con- spirators , that at the time of the murder he was in Brown Street at the rear of Mr. White's garden , and the jury were ...
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... evidence . " I hope I have too much regard for justice , and too much respect for my own character , to attempt either ; and were I to make such attempt , I am sure that in this court nothing can be carried against the law , and that ...
... evidence . " I hope I have too much regard for justice , and too much respect for my own character , to attempt either ; and were I to make such attempt , I am sure that in this court nothing can be carried against the law , and that ...
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Daniel Webster. not , by any power , to be hurried beyond the evidence . Though I could well have wished to shun this occasion , I have not felt at liberty to withhold my professional assistance , when it is supposed that I may be in ...
Daniel Webster. not , by any power , to be hurried beyond the evidence . Though I could well have wished to shun this occasion , I have not felt at liberty to withhold my professional assistance , when it is supposed that I may be in ...
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Seite 111 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and egress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Seite 548 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Seite 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Seite 588 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Seite 600 - Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water, seem to strive again ; Not chaos-like together crushed and bruised, But as the world harmoniously confused: Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree.
Seite 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Seite 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Seite 151 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Seite 477 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...
Seite 364 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...