 And what is our resource for the preservation of the constitution ? Reason and argument? You might as well reason and argue with the marble columns encircling them. The representatives chosen by ourselves?  Niles' National Register - Side 481828Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Henry Lee - 1832 - 216 sider
...do not only the acts to effect that, which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatever they shall think or pretend will be for the general...preservation of the Constitution ? Reason and argument ? You mig^t as well reason and argue with the marble columns encircling them ! — The representatives chosen... | |
 | B. L. Rayner - 1832 - 982 sider
...not only the acts to effect that, which fire specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general...resource for the preservation of the constitution 1 Reason and argument? You might as well reason and argue with the marble columns encircling them.... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1832 - 214 sider
...do int only the acts to effect that, which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare : and whit is our resource for the preservation of the Constitution ? Reason and argumeff. ? You might as... | |
 | Stephen Simpson - 1833 - 408 sider
...do not only the acts to effect that, which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think, or pretend will be for the general...ourselves? They are joined in the combination, some from incorrect views of government, some from corrupt ones, sufficient voting together to outnumber... | |
 | Maynard Davis Richardson, William Gilmore Simms - 1833 - 304 sider
...Alter deploring the invasions of the General Government, he eontinues— "and what is our resouree for the preservation of the Constitution? Reason and argument? You might as well reason with the marble pillar eneireling them. Shall we then stand tt our arms, with the hot-headed Georgian.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1849 - 1130 sider
...(riles he reasserts the same doctrine in still stronger language, saying: "And what is our recourse ? Reason and argument ? You might as well reason and argue with the marble columns encircling them, &c. Are we to stand to our arms ? &c. No, that must be the last resource. We must have patience and... | |
 | Robert Young Hayne - 1852 - 90 sider
...roads, they claim that of cutting down mountains for the construction of roads, and digging canals, &c. And what is our resource for the preservation of the...and argue with the marble columns encircling them, &c. Are we then to stand to our arms with the hot-headed Georgian ? No ; [and I say no, and South Carolina... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 676 sider
...do, not only the acts to effect that, which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think, or pretend will be for the general...ourselves ? They are joined in the combination, some from incorrect views of government, some from corrupt ones, sufficient voting together to out-number... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 678 sider
...enumerated and j>crmitted, but whatsoever they shall think, or pretend will be for the general well'are. And what is our resource for the preservation of the...ourselves ? They are joined in the combination, some from incorrecf views of government, some from corrupt ones, sufficient voting together to out-number... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 276 sider
...roads, they claim that of cutting down mountains for the construction of roads, and digging canals, &c. And what is our resource for the preservation of the...and argue with the marble columns encircling them, ifec. Are we then to stand to our arms with the hot-headed Georgian ? No ; [and I say no, and South... | |
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