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 - United States |
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... directed on the outside to the " Hon . Gideon Barstow , Salem , " and put into the post - office on Sunday evening , May 16 , 1830 . 66 Lynn , May 12 , 1830 . " Mr. White will send the $ 5,000 , or a part of it , before to - morrow ...
... directed on the outside to the " Hon . Gideon Barstow , Salem , " and put into the post - office on Sunday evening , May 16 , 1830 . 66 Lynn , May 12 , 1830 . " Mr. White will send the $ 5,000 , or a part of it , before to - morrow ...
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... directed ! As if assas sination of character were excusable in proportion as circum- stances may render it easy . Their endeavors , when they knew they were suspected themselves , to fix the charge on 64 THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE .
... directed ! As if assas sination of character were excusable in proportion as circum- stances may render it easy . Their endeavors , when they knew they were suspected themselves , to fix the charge on 64 THE MURDER OF CAPTAIN JOSEPH WHITE .
Page 116
... directed by their will , in the same manner as the acts of agents of unincorporated associations or partner- ships . The Girard Bank , we all know , was never incorporated until after Mr. Girard's death ; yet its proprietor , during a ...
... directed by their will , in the same manner as the acts of agents of unincorporated associations or partner- ships . The Girard Bank , we all know , was never incorporated until after Mr. Girard's death ; yet its proprietor , during a ...
Page 127
... directed to one end ; that is , to repress the unauthorized circulation of paper money . There are various other functions performed by banks ; but , in discharging all these , they only do what unincorporated individuals do . What is ...
... directed to one end ; that is , to repress the unauthorized circulation of paper money . There are various other functions performed by banks ; but , in discharging all these , they only do what unincorporated individuals do . What is ...
Page 134
... directed by the testator to be founded , and denies to them the right of visiting said college ; the object of the meeting having been stated by Professor Sewall in a few appropriate re- marks , the Hon . Henry L. Ellsworth was elected ...
... directed by the testator to be founded , and denies to them the right of visiting said college ; the object of the meeting having been stated by Professor Sewall in a few appropriate re- marks , the Hon . Henry L. Ellsworth was elected ...
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Popular passages
Page 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,...
Page 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,...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Page 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.
Page 151 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 477 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...
Page 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...