The American Orator: With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Fac-similes of the Autographs of the Signers; the Constitution of the United States; Washington's Farewell Address; and Fac-similes of the Autographs of a Large Number of Distinguished Individualscompiler, 1853 - 448 Seiten |
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... Henry Clay , · Sectional Services in the Last War , The South , The Battle of Bunker Hill , Attention the Soul of Genius , The Nobility of Labor , The Dignity of Human Nature , The Union , Agriculture , • The Influence of Christianity ...
... Henry Clay , · Sectional Services in the Last War , The South , The Battle of Bunker Hill , Attention the Soul of Genius , The Nobility of Labor , The Dignity of Human Nature , The Union , Agriculture , • The Influence of Christianity ...
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... Henry Cass , Lewis 435 Dorr , T. W. • • • • • • Douglas , S. A. 438 Dow , Neal Drake , S. G. Dudley , J ... Clay , Cassius M. 424 Ellsworth , O. .410 Grennell , G. Clay , Henry 412 Embury , E. C. 410 Grey , Clifford , J. H. . 446 Emerson ...
... Henry Cass , Lewis 435 Dorr , T. W. • • • • • • Douglas , S. A. 438 Dow , Neal Drake , S. G. Dudley , J ... Clay , Cassius M. 424 Ellsworth , O. .410 Grennell , G. Clay , Henry 412 Embury , E. C. 410 Grey , Clifford , J. H. . 446 Emerson ...
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... HENRY CLAY.-J. J. Crittenden . I AM to address you in commemoration of the public services of Henry Clay , and in celebration of his obsequies . His death filled his whole country with mourning , and the loss of no citizen , save the ...
... HENRY CLAY.-J. J. Crittenden . I AM to address you in commemoration of the public services of Henry Clay , and in celebration of his obsequies . His death filled his whole country with mourning , and the loss of no citizen , save the ...
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... Henry Clay was indebted to no adventitious circumstances for the success and glory of his life . Sprung from an humble stock , " he was fashioned to much honor from his cradle ; " and he achieved it by the noble use of the means which ...
... Henry Clay was indebted to no adventitious circumstances for the success and glory of his life . Sprung from an humble stock , " he was fashioned to much honor from his cradle ; " and he achieved it by the noble use of the means which ...
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... Henry Clay , and such were his talents , qualities , and objects . Nothing but success and honor could attend such a char- acter . For nearly half a century he was an informing spirit , bril- liant and heroic figure in our political ...
... Henry Clay , and such were his talents , qualities , and objects . Nothing but success and honor could attend such a char- acter . For nearly half a century he was an informing spirit , bril- liant and heroic figure in our political ...
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Seite 197 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Seite 115 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease. Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground; yet through the scent of water it will bud, and bring forth boughs like a plant.
Seite 402 - Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal Laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of Maratime and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The...
Seite 93 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Seite 199 - There is a just God, who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.
Seite 394 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president ; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Seite 400 - In looking forward to the moment which is intended to terminate the career of my public life, my feelings do not permit me to suspend the deep acknowledgment of that debt of gratitude which I owe to my beloved...
Seite 198 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us; they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging.
Seite 403 - Will it not be their wisdom to rely for the preservation of these advantages on the Union by which they were procured? Will they not henceforth be deaf to those Advisers, if such there are, who would sever them from their Brethren and connect them with Aliens?
Seite 400 - FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS: The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among the number...