Speech of the Hon. Daniel Webster Upon the Subject of Slavery: Delivered in the United States Senate on Thursday, March 7, 1850Redding & Company, 1894 - 39 páginas |
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... millions , get twice as much service for their money , while the million that serve them get half pay . Futhermore , a ten per cent . cut means more to a laborer than to a salaried man . But let us hear Seth Peterson , as brought ...
... millions , get twice as much service for their money , while the million that serve them get half pay . Futhermore , a ten per cent . cut means more to a laborer than to a salaried man . But let us hear Seth Peterson , as brought ...
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... millions of bushels of corn , and four hundred thousand barrels of flour , have been imported into the single city of Boston in one year . Most of this corn is from North Carolina and Virginia , and much of the flour from Virginia . I ...
... millions of bushels of corn , and four hundred thousand barrels of flour , have been imported into the single city of Boston in one year . Most of this corn is from North Carolina and Virginia , and much of the flour from Virginia . I ...
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... millions of dollars , exceeding by nearly fifty millions the import of the year before . Yet even this seems not to satisfy us all . Public men appear to have ruling passions or strong tendencies of preference towards particular objects ...
... millions of dollars , exceeding by nearly fifty millions the import of the year before . Yet even this seems not to satisfy us all . Public men appear to have ruling passions or strong tendencies of preference towards particular objects ...
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... millions is reduced to an export of forty millions , in consequence of there having been found a market at home for twenty millions , it is not only no worse for the South , but it is , in truth , much better . This is perfectly plain ...
... millions is reduced to an export of forty millions , in consequence of there having been found a market at home for twenty millions , it is not only no worse for the South , but it is , in truth , much better . This is perfectly plain ...
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... millions of dollars . In the years I have mentioned , there was more of wax , more of indigo , more of rice , more of almost every article of export from the South , than of cotton . I think I have heard it said , when Mr. Jefferson ...
... millions of dollars . In the years I have mentioned , there was more of wax , more of indigo , more of rice , more of almost every article of export from the South , than of cotton . I think I have heard it said , when Mr. Jefferson ...
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Página 15 - Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State; be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission, under the provisions of the Federal Constitution. And such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of...
Página 5 - Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep ; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep.
Página 7 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared: a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts; whose morning drum -beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 55 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Página 7 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe .with her possessions and military posts, •whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Página 12 - Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.
Página 12 - He is a rash man indeed, and little conversant with human nature, and especially has he a very erroneous estimate of the character of the people of this country, who supposes that a feeling of this kind is to be trifled with or despised. It will assuredly cause itself to be respected.
Página 28 - Then, sir, there are these abolition societies, of which I am unwilling to speak, but in regard to which I have very clear notions and opinions. I do not think them useful. I think their operations for the last twenty years have produced nothing good or valuable.
Página 50 - be required and directed to adopt such measures as he may deem necessary to cause, as soon as may be, all duties, taxes, debts, or sums of money accruing or becoming payable to the United States to be collected and paid in the legal currency of the United States...
Página 32 - Where is the flag of the Republic to remain ? Where is the eagle still to tower ? or is he to cower, and shrink and fall to the ground...