Speech of Hon. C.L. Vallandigham, of Ohio: Delivered in the House of Representatives, February 20, 1861H. Polkinhorn, 1861 - 23 páginas |
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... ambition - is one of the strongest and carliest developed passions of man . It is as discernible in the school - boy as in the statesman . It belongs alike to the individual and to masses of men , and is exhibited in every gradation of ...
... ambition - is one of the strongest and carliest developed passions of man . It is as discernible in the school - boy as in the statesman . It belongs alike to the individual and to masses of men , and is exhibited in every gradation of ...
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... ambition of the lawyers , that not most numerous but yet most powerful class of citizens , by its supe- rior honors , its great emoluments , its life tenure , its faith in precedents , and its settled forms and ancient practice ...
... ambition of the lawyers , that not most numerous but yet most powerful class of citizens , by its supe- rior honors , its great emoluments , its life tenure , its faith in precedents , and its settled forms and ancient practice ...
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... ambition nor avarice , the love of honor , or the love of gain , find anything to satisfy their large desires in the State governments . Sir , the State executives have no cabinets , no veto for the most part , no army , no navy , no ...
... ambition nor avarice , the love of honor , or the love of gain , find anything to satisfy their large desires in the State governments . Sir , the State executives have no cabinets , no veto for the most part , no army , no navy , no ...
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... ambition known among men . Parties and combinations have existed from the first , and have been changed and reorganized , and built up and cast down , from the earliest period of our history to this day , all for the purpose of ...
... ambition known among men . Parties and combinations have existed from the first , and have been changed and reorganized , and built up and cast down , from the earliest period of our history to this day , all for the purpose of ...
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... ambitious characters , " Maintain Plighted Faith . " But , right or wrong , wise or unwise , at the time , as the repeal of that restriction may have seemed , subsequent acts and events have made it both a delu- sion and a snare . Yes ...
... ambitious characters , " Maintain Plighted Faith . " But , right or wrong , wise or unwise , at the time , as the repeal of that restriction may have seemed , subsequent acts and events have made it both a delu- sion and a snare . Yes ...
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Speech of Hon. C. L. Vallandigham, of Ohio, Delivered in the House of ... Clement L. (Clement Laird) Vallandigham Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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ambition amendment annexed and admitted anti-slavery believe cause central Government centralizing tendencies certainly choice of President civil coinciding compromise confederacy Congress consent Constitution Crittenden danger demand Democratic party disbursement dissolution division doctrine Duke of Wellington election electoral colleges electors equal established evil executive Federal Government Federal party formed or erected gentleman from Massachusetts geographical line honors and emoluments House of Lords House of Representatives least Legislature Lord Chancellor marked principle mean to aggress ment mischief Missouri compromise moral and political non-slaveholding section North oppression passions patriotism patronage peace plan of adjustment power and influence power to aggress propose propositions protection purpose question of slavery Republic Republican party restore the Union revenues revolution right of choice secede sectional majority secure self-protecting Senate slave South South Carolina statesmanship statesmen temptation Tennessee territory Thirteen Colonies tion to-day United veto vote Whig party
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Página 11 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Página 11 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Página 14 - ... does : by it the hand of man is raised against his neighbour, against his brother, and against his father; the servant betrays his master, and the whole scene ends in confusion and devastation.