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affectionately April Astor House believe bill BLATCHFORD blue fish Boston called cattle cold Congress course DAN'L WEBSTER Daniel Wright dear Sir DEAR SIR,-I doubt duties EDWARD CURTIS England EVERETT expect February February 15 feel fish FLETCHER WEBSTER Friday friends give glad Hartford Convention hear hope Jaudon JOHN TAYLOR Julia keep kelp kind land leave look Lord Aberdeen Lord Ashburton manure March Marshfield Mexico miles Monday morning o'clock opinion PAIGE party pass perhaps pleasure ploughed political PORTER WRIGHT pray present President probably received your letter regard remember respect river Saturday Senate session soon South speech stay suppose things tion to-day to-morrow treaty truly Tuesday Washington weather WEBSTER TO FLETCHER WEBSTER TO PORTER Wednesday week WESTON Whigs wish write yesterday York
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Página 186 - Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Página 32 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Página 229 - My son, that is a worthy man ; he is a member of Congress ; he goes to Philadelphia and gets six dollars a day, while I toil here. It is because he had an education, which I never had. If I had had his early education, I should have been in Philadelphia in his place. I came near it as it was. But I missed it, and now I must work here.' ' My dear father,' said I, ' you shall not work. Brother and I will work for you, and will wear our hands out, and you shall rest.
Página 611 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Página 170 - Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation ? The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
Página 606 - An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue...
Página 353 - From my earliest youth, I have regarded slavery as a great moral and political evil. I think it unjust, repugnant to the natural equality of mankind, founded only in superior power ; a standing and permanent conquest by the stronger over the weaker. All pretence of defending it on the ground of different races, I have ever condemned. I have even said that if the black race is weaker, that is a reason against, not for, its subjection and oppression. In a religious point of view, I have ever regarded...
Página 271 - My own health is pretty good, but I hardly know how I shall bear up under this blow. I have always regarded it as a great misfortune to outlive my children ; but I feel now, but more intensely, as when Grace and Charles died. But the will of Heaven be done in all things ! Yours affectionately, DAN'L WEBSTER.
Página 229 - And I remember to have cried, and I cry now at the recollection. ' My child,' said he, ' it is of no importance to me. I now live but for my children. I could not give your elder brothers the advantages of knowledge, but I can do something for you. Exert yourself, improve your opportunities, learn, learn, and, when I am gone, you will not need to go through the hardships which I have undergone, and which have made me an old man before my time.
Página 367 - I cannot well say how much pleasure it gave me to see a name, so much venerated and beloved by me as yours is, on the letter recently received by me from friends in Boston and its vicinity, approving the general object and character of my speech in the Senate, of the seventh of March. I know the conscientiousness with which you act on such occasions, and therefore value your favorable sentiments the more highly. Is it not time, my dear Sir, that the path of Christian duty, in relation to great and...