Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, 1807-1891: A BiographyWilliam Byrd Press, Incorporated, 1925 - Всего страниц: 484 |
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... facts and deductions in these notable " Letters " are visible the clearness , the logical ability and the moderation of language , which are characteristics of his writings . Between the lines of all his controversial papers , as in his ...
... facts and deductions in these notable " Letters " are visible the clearness , the logical ability and the moderation of language , which are characteristics of his writings . Between the lines of all his controversial papers , as in his ...
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... fact that he had been defeated as a candidate for the Legislature in Rockbridge on the preceding Monday , it was suggested that the people of Botetourt should elect him as one of their delegates at the election to be held on the fol ...
... fact that he had been defeated as a candidate for the Legislature in Rockbridge on the preceding Monday , it was suggested that the people of Botetourt should elect him as one of their delegates at the election to be held on the fol ...
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... fact that Congress at every session was flooded with petitions from the North asking for the abolition of slavery . Upon a motion to adopt the former rules the debate took a wide range , and involved the repeal of the twenty - first ...
... fact that Congress at every session was flooded with petitions from the North asking for the abolition of slavery . Upon a motion to adopt the former rules the debate took a wide range , and involved the repeal of the twenty - first ...
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... fact that the Committee on Rules had reported , and their report had been adopted , providing that all subjects . not included in the President's message should be suspended until the regular session , except a general bankrupt law ...
... fact that the Committee on Rules had reported , and their report had been adopted , providing that all subjects . not included in the President's message should be suspended until the regular session , except a general bankrupt law ...
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... facts are taken , thus refers to the part Mr. Stuart bore in this remarkable contest : " The whole country owes to this gallant and gifted Vir- ginian a deep debt of gratitude , which we trust they will be neither slow to render nor ...
... facts are taken , thus refers to the part Mr. Stuart bore in this remarkable contest : " The whole country owes to this gallant and gifted Vir- ginian a deep debt of gratitude , which we trust they will be neither slow to render nor ...
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Стр. 464 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Стр. 449 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Стр. 396 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Стр. 128 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Стр. 184 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Стр. 298 - ... 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, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Стр. 76 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject...
Стр. 396 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Стр. 241 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility...
Стр. 82 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.