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... mighty powers beyond the Atlantic ? God grant it may . But with our growth as a nation , our interests have propor- tionately extended . We are threatening to overshadow the continent . Our relations with the South - 13.
... mighty powers beyond the Atlantic ? God grant it may . But with our growth as a nation , our interests have propor- tionately extended . We are threatening to overshadow the continent . Our relations with the South - 13.
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... interests , the disordered affairs of our sister republics , war would be the melancholy but inevitable result . Are we prepared for such a struggle ? Would the men of '59 breathe the patriotism of '76 ? Would the spirit of Lexington ...
... interests , the disordered affairs of our sister republics , war would be the melancholy but inevitable result . Are we prepared for such a struggle ? Would the men of '59 breathe the patriotism of '76 ? Would the spirit of Lexington ...
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... hail this eighty - fourth anniversary ! They are gone , but their work remains . It has grown in interest with the lapse of years , beginning already to add to its intrinsic importance those titles to respect ORATION. ...
... hail this eighty - fourth anniversary ! They are gone , but their work remains . It has grown in interest with the lapse of years , beginning already to add to its intrinsic importance those titles to respect ORATION. ...
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... interests touch and clash at so many points ; and the war of words is but too well adapted to prepare the public mind for more deplorable struggles . Let me further also remark , that the suggestion which I propose to combat , viz ...
... interests touch and clash at so many points ; and the war of words is but too well adapted to prepare the public mind for more deplorable struggles . Let me further also remark , that the suggestion which I propose to combat , viz ...
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... interests and centre of political influence , is itself a very efficient check on such a democracy . Then each of these States is a representative commonwealth , composed of two branches , with the ordinary divisions of executive ...
... interests and centre of political influence , is itself a very efficient check on such a democracy . Then each of these States is a representative commonwealth , composed of two branches , with the ordinary divisions of executive ...
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Seite 26 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Seite 5 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 37 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Seite 37 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 35 - I am sincerely one of those, and would rather be in dependence on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation on earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British Parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole Island in the ocean.
Seite 39 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.
Seite 70 - 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 restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 43 - The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed this declaration. The several States are not even mentioned by name in any part of...