John C. CalhounHoughton Mifflin, 1882 - 356 sidor |
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... political stage of the United States , though he has done enough else to secure for his name a permanent place in the annals of his country . As the years roll on , the fame of Danie ! Webster and Henry Clay is gradually growing dimmer ...
... political stage of the United States , though he has done enough else to secure for his name a permanent place in the annals of his country . As the years roll on , the fame of Danie ! Webster and Henry Clay is gradually growing dimmer ...
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... political stage , the Calhoun who ate and drank like other mortals , who laughed , chatted , and sorrowed , who enjoyed life and bat- tled with its small and great cares , is long ago dead , and no pen will ever be able to recall him to ...
... political stage , the Calhoun who ate and drank like other mortals , who laughed , chatted , and sorrowed , who enjoyed life and bat- tled with its small and great cares , is long ago dead , and no pen will ever be able to recall him to ...
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... political opinions which he held in the be- ginning of his political career . Having returned to Abbeville , he began to practise law YOUTH . 9.
... political opinions which he held in the be- ginning of his political career . Having returned to Abbeville , he began to practise law YOUTH . 9.
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... political career . While at college the ex- citing questions of the day had engrossed his whole attention , and the intelligence and ear- nestness with which he discussed them proved that he would try to have a hand in shaping the ...
... political career . While at college the ex- citing questions of the day had engrossed his whole attention , and the intelligence and ear- nestness with which he discussed them proved that he would try to have a hand in shaping the ...
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... political stage there were some exceptionally young men , possessed of a much higher order of talent than most of their seniors . So the leadership of the nation in this great crisis fell into the hands of untried and inexperienced men ...
... political stage there were some exceptionally young men , possessed of a much higher order of talent than most of their seniors . So the leadership of the nation in this great crisis fell into the hands of untried and inexperienced men ...
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Sida 294 - Constitution, which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Sida 343 - But can this be done? Yes, easily; not by the weaker party, for it can of itself do nothing — not even protect itself — but by the stronger. The North has only to will it to accomplish it — to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory...
Sida 348 - ... commencement. I have exerted myself, during the whole period, to arrest it, with the intention of saving the Union, if it could be done; and if it could not, to save the section where it has pleased Providence to cast my lot, and which I sincerely believe has justice and the Constitution on its side. Having faithfully done my duty to the best of my ability, both to the Union and my section, throughout this agitation, I shall have the consolation, let what will come, that I am free from all responsibility.
Sida 194 - Resolved, That the intermeddling of any state or states, or their citizens, to abolish slavery in this district, or any of the territories, on the ground or under the pretext that it is immoral or sinful, or the passage of any act or measure of Congress with that view, would be a direct and dangerous attack on the institutions of all the slave-holding states.
Sida 176 - I may say with truth, that in few countries so much is left to the share of the laborer, and so little exacted from him, or where there is more kind attention paid to him in sickness or infirmities of age.
Sida 21 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Sida 346 - Among others, it might be effected through a reorganization of the executive department ; so that its powers, instead of being vested, as they now are, in a single officer, should be vested in two ; — to be so elected, as that the two should be constituted the special organs and representatives of the respective sections, in the executive department of the government ; and requiring each to approve all the acts of Congress before they shall become laws.
Sida 116 - When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game; that those who are engaged in it but act a part; that they make this or that profession, not from honest conviction or an intent to...
Sida 235 - Texas, we avow that we wish to see slavery abolished there, as elsewhere, and \re should rejoice if the recognition of that country by the Mexican government should be accompanied by an engagement on the part of Texas to abolish slavery eventually, and under proper conditions, throughout the Republic. But although we earnestly desire and feel it to be our duty to promote such a consummation, we shall not interfere unduly, or with an improper assumption of authority, with either party, in order to...
Sida 344 - Constitution by an amendment which will restore to the South in substance the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections was destroyed by the action of this government.