A Glance at Current HistoryCussons, May, Incorporated, 1899 - 172 sider |
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Side 49 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Side 50 - Suppose in private life thirteen form a partnership, and ten of them undertake to admit a new partner without the concurrence of the other three, would it not be at their option to abandon the partnership after so palpable an infringement of their rights? How much more in the political partnership, where the admission of new associates without previous authority is so pregnant with ob.vious dangers and evils...
Side 48 - Resolved, That the annexation of Louisiana to the Union, transcends the Constitutional power of the Government of the United States. It formed a new Confederacy to which the States united by the former compact, are not bound to adhere.
Side 49 - ... of the parties may be considered as exempting the other from its obligations ? Suppose in private life thirteen form a partnership, and ten of them undertake to admit a new partner without the concurrence of the other three, would it not be...
Side 106 - Bid him disband his legions, Restore the commonwealth to liberty, Submit his actions to the public censure, And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. Bid him do this, and Cato is his friend.
Side 18 - ... English Revolution of 1640 and the contemptible conduct of some of the members of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, (pp. 90-93.) In this latter connection, one is glad to have Mr. Smith quote later on the following : "Jay," ejaculated Governeur [sic] Morris thirty years afterwards, "what a set of dd scoundrels we had in that second Congress!" "Yes," said Jay "we had," and he knocked the ashes from his pipe, (page 99.) Jay and Gouverneur Morris were fairly good judges of ' men and while...
Side 2 - a people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything to be remembered with pride by remote descendants...
Side 92 - Robert Lee, and Stonewall Jackson. I heard them declare that Jackson's campaign in the Shenandoah Valley, in which you, and you, and you, and I myself in my subordinate place, followed this immortal, was the finest specimen of strategy and tactics of which the world has any record ; that in this series of marches and battles there was never a blunder committed by Jackson; that this campaign in the Valley was superior to either of those made by Napoleon in Italy.
Side 135 - The contest is not between the North and South as geographical sections, for between such sections merely there can be no contest ; nor between the people of the North and the people of the South, for our relations have been pleasant, and on neutral grounds there is still nothing to estrange us.
Side 113 - ... without the aid of letters, borne by tradition from generation to generation. Every memorial of such a man will possess a meaning and a value to his countrymen. His tomb will be a hallowed spot. Great memories will cluster there, and his countrymen, as they visit it, may well exclaim — " Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines, Shrines to no creed or code confined ; The Delphian vales, the Palestines, The Meccas of the mind.