American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science, Volumen16Wiley and Putnam, 1852 |
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Página 473 - counsellor in the affairs of this government, whose thoughts should be mainly bent on considering, not how the Union may be best preserved, but how tolerable might be the condition of the people when it should be broken up and destroyed. While the Union lasts, we have high,
Página 387 - common highways and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of said territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may bo admitted into the confederacy, WITHOUT ANY TAX, IMPOST, OR DUTY THEREFOR.
Página 197 - purchasing wood and obtaining water, and for no other purpose whatever. But they shall be under such restrictions as may be necessary to prevent their taking, drying, or curing fish therein, or in any other manner whatever abusing the privileges hereby reserved them.
Página 475 - 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
Página 473 - What is all this worth ? ' nor those other words of delusion and folly, ' Liberty first and Union afterwards ;' but every where, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart,—Liberty and Union,
Página 480 - Ah! gentlemen, that was a dreadful mistake. Such a secret can be safe no where. The whole creation of God has neither nook nor corner where the guilty can bestow it, and eay it is safe. Not to speak of that eye which
Página 77 - privilege of becoming citizens and the owners of soil among us ought to be resisted with the same spirit which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute books. 9. That Congress has no power under the Constitution to interfere with or control
Página 387 - the fourth article of the Ordinance of 1787, which provides that 'The navigable waters, leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall bo common highways and
Página 473 - unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss
Página 192 - another's umbrellas, in a general infection of illtemper, and losing their foot-hold at streetcorners, where tens of thousands of other foot passengers have been slipping and sliding since the day broke, (if the day ever broke,) adding new deposits to the crust upon crust of mud, sticking at those points tenaciously to the pavement, and