This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
| identifier | question |
|---|---|
| 14661 | Is it not demonstrated that Utah is an abnormal State? |
| 14661 | Is there menace in this system? |
| 14661 | What shall the Americans of that Commonwealth do if the people of the United States do not heed their cry? |
| 14661 | Will Congress allow this awful calamity to continue? |
| 5015 | Is it not by bearing them in affectionate remembrance? |
| 45954 | How do those people treat you now, since they have come to close quarters with you? 45954 They assailed Sumner because he said,''Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?'' |
| 45954 | Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? 45954 Who is the HONEST MAN? |
| 45954 | _ Bru._ All this? 45954 ''Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing? 45954 ***** And first, what are our present duties here in Massachusetts? 45954 ***** Here two questions occur, absorbing all others:_ first_, what are our political duties here in Massachusetts at the present time? 45954 Am I not right in this parallel? 45954 Am I not right, then, in calling it the worst bill on which Congress ever acted? 45954 Am I not right, then, in calling this bill the best on which Congress ever acted? 45954 Am I right? 45954 And yet the honorable Senator asks,Did we ever bring this subject into Congress?" |
| 45954 | Ay, more: fret, till your proud heart break:_ Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble._ Must I budge? |
| 45954 | But what is the use of petition, or polished sentences and rounded periods, in a contest with the pirate honor of Slavery? |
| 45954 | Did not the honorable Senator from Ohio some time ago bring in such a bill? |
| 45954 | Do I understand the Senator to say without notice given? |
| 45954 | Do I understand the gentleman to say that the Rule of Three was applied to representation in the United States? |
| 45954 | Do you ask me if I would send back a slave? |
| 45954 | Does any Senator here dissent from this rule? |
| 45954 | Does any one question this? |
| 45954 | Does the Senator allude to my State? |
| 45954 | Does the Senator from South Carolina? |
| 45954 | Does the Senator from Virginia? |
| 45954 | Has the Senator a right to debate the question, or say anything on it, until leave be granted? |
| 45954 | Has the Senator done? |
| 45954 | He then asked if Massachusetts"would send fugitives back to us after trial by jury or any other mode?" |
| 45954 | Here the question was distinctly presented, whether any such property was recognized by the British Constitution? |
| 45954 | How often must I say this? |
| 45954 | I put the question in general language: Does he recognize the obligation to return a fugitive slave?" |
| 45954 | I wish to inquire of the Senator from New Hampshire whether he has withdrawn his motion? |
| 45954 | I wish to know, before voting, what will be the effect of a vote given in the affirmative on this motion? |
| 45954 | I would inquire whether there is not a bill already pending for the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law? |
| 45954 | I would inquire whether there is not such a bill pending? |
| 45954 | I would respectfully ask the Chair what has become of the motion submitted by the Senator from New Hampshire? |
| 45954 | If the Constitution and laws appoint officers, and require them to discharge duties, will he abandon them to the mob? |
| 45954 | In what school of blackguardism was Clay of Alabama graduated? |
| 45954 | Is that in order? |
| 45954 | Is that motion in order? |
| 45954 | It was entitled,"Shall Slavery be permitted in Nebraska?" |
| 45954 | Mr. Butler rose to reply, when Mr. Badger asked his"friend from South Carolina, whether it would not be better for him to allow us now to adjourn?" |
| 45954 | Must I give way and room to your rash choler? |
| 45954 | Must I observe you? |
| 45954 | Must I stand and crouch Under your testy humor? |
| 45954 | Now, Sir, upon what ground do gentlemen make any discrimination in the case of the power over the National Militia? |
| 45954 | Oh, when will the North be aroused? |
| 45954 | On what motion have the yeas and nays been ordered? |
| 45954 | Our slaves being our property, why should they be taxed more than the land, sheep, cattle, horses,& c.?" |
| 45954 | Pray, why incumbent on him? |
| 45954 | Sir, can you wonder that our people are moved? |
| 45954 | Sir, who has pretended that all men are born equal in physical strength or in mental capacities, in beauty of form or health of body? |
| 45954 | Suppose some of us object to it? |
| 45954 | The question arose, whether leave should be granted to the Senator from Massachusetts to introduce the bill? |
| 45954 | The question for the Chair to put is, Shall the Senator have leave? |
| 45954 | The question is, whether, on the motion for leave to introduce the bill, there shall be debate? |
| 45954 | The question was then raised, whether it could be received, if there was objection? |
| 45954 | Then he exclaimed:"Why, Sir, am I speaking of a fanatic, one whose reason is dethroned? |
| 45954 | Then how can we ever reach the question of leave, when objection is made? |
| 45954 | Then, turning to Mr. Sumner, he demanded, with much impetuosity of manner,"Will this honorable Senator tell me that he will do it?" |
| 45954 | To which Mr. Sumner promptly replied,"Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?" |
| 45954 | WHEN WILL THE NORTH BE AROUSED? |
| 45954 | What and how? |
| 45954 | What higher praise could I offer? |
| 45954 | What is the date of that statute? |
| 45954 | Who can doubt the result? |
| 45954 | Who can fail to see the difference between the two cases, and how far the tyranny of the Slave Act is beyond the tyranny of the Stamp Act? |
| 45954 | Why not? |
| 45954 | Will it carry the bill and the whole subject on the table? |
| 45954 | Will the Chair allow me to make a single statement? |
| 45954 | Will the Senator allow me? |
| 45954 | Will the Senator from Massachusetts give leave to the Chair to explain? |
| 45954 | Will the Senator refer to his own speech? |
| 45954 | Will the gentleman for Marshfield allow me to make one more inquiry? |
| 45954 | Will the gentleman state who was the author of that Essex paper? |
| 45954 | Will the honorable Senator allow me to interrupt him? |
| 45954 | [_ Applause and laughter._] What may we expect from the Whig party? |
| 45954 | _ Sic itur ad astra._ Mais que dis- je? |
| 45954 | and,_ secondly_, how, and by what agency, shall they be performed? |
| 45954 | in reply to the question, whether he would assist in the capture of a fugitive slave? |
| 45954 | must I endure all this? |
| 45954 | which way shall I fly? |
| 44682 | And may I now express the pleasure I shall have in every good that comes to you as a community and to each of you as individuals? |
| 44682 | And now what hinders that Kentucky shall step forward in the great industrial rivalry between the States? |
| 44682 | And what is essential to that end? |
| 44682 | And what is the necessary effect? |
| 44682 | And, if that is true, is it not also clear that this increased importation of foreign- made goods means some idle workingmen in your mills? |
| 44682 | But some one will suggest:"Is there a remedy for this?" |
| 44682 | But who can tell what another century will disclose, when these valleys have become thick with a prosperous and thriving and happy people? |
| 44682 | Can not we do as much for oppressed Americans? |
| 44682 | Do such statements as these fall in line with experiences of these workingmen who are before me? |
| 44682 | Do they hope that when the coat is made cheaper the wages of the man or woman who makes it will be increased? |
| 44682 | Do they want to invite the flood, or do they believe in the dike, but think it will afford adequate protection at a lower level? |
| 44682 | Do we hear from New York and her markets of trade that it is a disturbing question and we must not broach it? |
| 44682 | Does any one say there is wastefulness here? |
| 44682 | Does some devotee at the shrine of Mammon say it will disturb the public pulse? |
| 44682 | For where in our country could the centennial of the event be so worthily celebrated as here? |
| 44682 | Have I read your signals aright? |
| 44682 | Have we not had enough of such experiments? |
| 44682 | Have we not learned that no stocks and bonds, nor land, is our country? |
| 44682 | He has promised that the food of man should not fail, and where else is famine unknown? |
| 44682 | How are we going to deal with these fellows? |
| 44682 | How can any one thank you for it except to go back to Washington and do the very best in his power for your good and the good of the whole people? |
| 44682 | How can it be, since you look into my face as I into yours for the first time? |
| 44682 | How do they do it? |
| 44682 | How long will those who rejoice that slavery no longer exists cherish or tolerate the incapacities it puts upon their communities? |
| 44682 | How shall he understand those great questions which his suffrage must adjudge without thorough intellectual culture in his youth? |
| 44682 | How shall one be a safe citizen when citizens are rulers who are not intelligent? |
| 44682 | I ask you how? |
| 44682 | I ask you why this is so? |
| 44682 | I said in reply:"A chance to do what? |
| 44682 | If any one asks, Why repay this tax? |
| 44682 | If he should refuse to adopt these modern methods what would be the result? |
| 44682 | If some one were to ask to- day,"What is the matter with the United States?" |
| 44682 | If that is true, then why the legislative precautions we have wisely taken against the coming of pauper labor to our shores? |
| 44682 | If this were not true, why is it that the workingmen and the working- women of the older lands turn their faces hitherward? |
| 44682 | Is it not certain that wages must be equalized in those competing establishments or the one paying the higher wages must shut down? |
| 44682 | Is not the answer obvious? |
| 44682 | Is there a man here so dull as not to know that this means diminished work in our American shops? |
| 44682 | May I have the privilege now, without detaining you longer, of taking by the hand every soldier here? |
| 44682 | May I not, without self- laudation, now say that upon that foundation you have since created a modest structure of respect for me? |
| 44682 | Now, if that is true, then why is it true, and how is it to be continued-- this condition of our country? |
| 44682 | Now, my countrymen, if this plan of revenue reform is to be promotive of our manufacturing interests, why go slowly? |
| 44682 | Now, what conclusion shall we draw? |
| 44682 | Now, wo n''t you crown the great courtesies of the day by allowing me to end my speech? |
| 44682 | Out of all this what is yet to come? |
| 44682 | Out of what does this come? |
| 44682 | Shall any old prejudice spoil this hopeful vision? |
| 44682 | Shall the prejudices and paralysis of slavery continue to hang upon the skirts of progress? |
| 44682 | Should we not, also, as Americans, in our legislation, consider first the interests of our people? |
| 44682 | The hospitable door which has always opened to territories seeking admission is insolently closed in her face-- and why? |
| 44682 | The thought occurred to me, What will be done with these flags when this celebration is over? |
| 44682 | Their masterly orations were followed by the reading of a poem,"What Shall It Teach?" |
| 44682 | Well, during the war you were willing to wait, were n''t you? |
| 44682 | What but our own neglect, what but our own unfaithfulness, can put in peril either our national institutions or our local organizations of government? |
| 44682 | What city offered thoroughfares so magnificent, or a people so great, so generous, as New York has poured out to- day to celebrate that event? |
| 44682 | What does all this mean? |
| 44682 | What hinders us, secure in the market of our own great population, from successful competition in the markets of the world? |
| 44682 | What if a sprig of green were found upon the bloody jacket of a Union soldier who lay dead on Missionary Ridge? |
| 44682 | What is it that gives us prestige abroad and power at home? |
| 44682 | What is it that makes our communities peaceful? |
| 44682 | What is it that makes the scattered homes of our people secure? |
| 44682 | What is it that makes these farm- houses safe? |
| 44682 | What is it we ask? |
| 44682 | What is the condition of things in the Southern States to- day? |
| 44682 | What is the remedy? |
| 44682 | What is there now before us that presents itself for solution? |
| 44682 | What other land is there like it? |
| 44682 | What party befriended you when you needed friends? |
| 44682 | What party has stood always as an obstruction to the development and enlargement of your rights as citizens? |
| 44682 | What questions are we to grapple with? |
| 44682 | What seaboard offered so magnificent a bay on which to display our merchant and naval marine? |
| 44682 | What shall be done with it? |
| 44682 | What unfinished work remains to be done? |
| 44682 | What would one of these States be without the other? |
| 44682 | Where else are there homes like ours? |
| 44682 | Where else in the world could such a gathering be assembled? |
| 44682 | Where else so much social order as here? |
| 44682 | Where is the ultimate distribution of governmental powers? |
| 44682 | Which of you has not realized that not the lot of man only, but the lot of woman, has been made softer and easier under its influence? |
| 44682 | Who are these? |
| 44682 | Who can tell? |
| 44682 | Who shall assign honors where all were brave? |
| 44682 | Who shall measure it? |
| 44682 | Who shall say who was chiefest? |
| 44682 | Who should be able, better than you, to know the commercial and business needs of our country? |
| 44682 | Why is it that the paralyzing shadow of free trade falls upon the manufactures and upon the homes of our laboring classes? |
| 44682 | Why is it to- day that we have legislation threatening the industries of this country? |
| 44682 | Why not establish here cotton mills that shall send, not the crude agricultural product to other markets, but the manufactured product? |
| 44682 | Why not open the gates wide and let us have the promised good all at once? |
| 44682 | Why not, while supplying 65,000,000 of people, reach out and take a part we have not had in the commerce of the world? |
| 44682 | Why not, with the help we will give you in New England and the North, spin it all? |
| 44682 | Why shall we not have our share in the great commerce of the world? |
| 44682 | Why should she not speedily find great manufacturing cities spring up in her beautiful valleys? |
| 44682 | Will you permit me now to thank you again for this demonstration and for the opportunity to stand for a moment in your presence? |
| 44682 | You have delved into the earth and have found the supply of this most adaptable and extraordinary fuel inexhaustible; and what has it done for you? |
| 44682 | more to its workingmen than the other? |
| 41300 | What interest,asks he,"has South Carolina in a canal in Ohio?" |
| 41300 | Why, then,he asks us,"why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? |
| 41300 | [ 28] Their eyeballs were seared( was it not so, Sir?) 41300 An American no longer? 41300 And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence? 41300 And is it not so? 41300 And now, Sir, I repeat, how it is that a State legislature acquires any power to interfere? 41300 And now, Sir, how does the honorable member propose to deal with this case? 41300 And since we must fight it through, why not put ourselves in a state to enjoy all the benefits of victory, if we gain the victory? 41300 And, after an experience of thirty- five years, what is there which an enemy could condemn? 41300 Are these States both right? 41300 Are we in that condition still? 41300 Are we not thrown back again, precisely, upon the old Confederation? 41300 Are we yet at the mercy of State discretion and State construction? 41300 Be it so; but did she propose the Carolina remedy? 41300 Besides, what is all this to the present purpose? 41300 But how has the gentleman returned this respect for others''opinions? 41300 But how interpose, and what does this declaration purport? 41300 But who shall decide this question of interference? 41300 But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government? 41300 But who, from beneath the weight of mortification and shame that would oppress him, could look up to behold it? 41300 But, Sir, if, in the course of forty years, there have been undue effervescences of party in New England, has the same thing happened nowhere else? 41300 But, Sir, what is this danger, and what are the grounds of it? 41300 Can she authorize others to do it? 41300 Can the courts of the United States take notice of the indulgence of a State to commit treason? 41300 Can we rely on the constancy and perseverance of the people? 41300 Cut off from all hope of royal clemency, what are you, what can you be, while the power of England remains, but outlaws? 41300 Did I attempt to find any other cause than an honest one for these scruples? 41300 Did not evenhanded justice ere- long commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips? 41300 Did they not soon find that for another they hadfiled their mind"? |
| 41300 | Do we mean to submit to the measures of Parliament, Boston Port Bill[17] and all? |
| 41300 | Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? |
| 41300 | Does not this approach absurdity? |
| 41300 | For ourselves, we may be ready to run the hazard; but are we ready to carry the country to that length? |
| 41300 | Has he come within beat of drum of any position of mine? |
| 41300 | Has he disproved a fact, refuted a proposition, weakened an argument, maintained by me? |
| 41300 | Has he maintained his own charges? |
| 41300 | Has he proved what he alleged? |
| 41300 | Has he sustained himself in his attack on the government, and on the history of the North, in the matter of the public lands? |
| 41300 | He believed the embargo unconstitutional, and so did others; but what then? |
| 41300 | His construction gets us into it; how does he propose to get us out? |
| 41300 | How did Massachusetts deal with it? |
| 41300 | How do you propose to defend us? |
| 41300 | How does he relieve us from this difficulty, upon any principle of his? |
| 41300 | How has it accomplished this great and essential end? |
| 41300 | How is each of the thirty States to defend itself? |
| 41300 | How, then, they would ask, do you propose to defend us? |
| 41300 | I ask him if the power is not found there, clearly and visibly found there? |
| 41300 | I must now beg to ask, Sir, Whence is this supposed right of the States derived? |
| 41300 | If John Fries had produced an act of Pennsylvania, annulling the law of Congress, would it have helped his case? |
| 41300 | If not, which is in the wrong? |
| 41300 | If there be no power to settle such questions, independent of either of the States, is not the whole Union a rope of sand? |
| 41300 | If this great_ Western Sun_ be struck out of the firmament, at what other fountain shall the lamp of liberty hereafter be lighted? |
| 41300 | If we fail, who shall venture the repetition? |
| 41300 | If we postpone independence, do we mean to carry on, or to give up, the war? |
| 41300 | In such a case, under such circumstances, how did Massachusetts demean herself? |
| 41300 | Is he bound to consider them both right? |
| 41300 | Is it guiding, controlling, giving the rule to commerce, as a subsisting thing, or is it putting an end to it altogether? |
| 41300 | Is it the creature of the State legislatures, or the creature of the people? |
| 41300 | Is not this the plain result? |
| 41300 | Is success so probable as to justify it? |
| 41300 | Is the government of the State, on that account, not a popular government? |
| 41300 | Is the voice of one State conclusive? |
| 41300 | Must I not have been absolutely malicious, if I could have thrust myself forward, to destroy sensations thus pleasing? |
| 41300 | Now, Sir, again I ask the gentleman, What is to be done? |
| 41300 | Now, is this regulating commerce, or destroying it? |
| 41300 | Or disappointment, rather, and sore mortification,--dust and ashes, the common fate of vaulting ambition overleaping itself? |
| 41300 | Or how should he answer him who dwells perpetually on local interests, and fans every kindling flame of local prejudice? |
| 41300 | Permanent power? |
| 41300 | Sir, did I state this as matter of reproach? |
| 41300 | Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom? |
| 41300 | Substantial good? |
| 41300 | Suppose this were so; why should_ he_ therefore abuse New England? |
| 41300 | That is true; but would the judge admit our plea? |
| 41300 | That may all be so; but if the tribunal should not happen to be of that opinion, shall we swing for it? |
| 41300 | That would be very imposing; but what then? |
| 41300 | The State legislatures? |
| 41300 | The concurrent agreement of all the members of this great republic to separate? |
| 41300 | The great question is, Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the laws? |
| 41300 | The reply would be, I think, not impertinent,"Who made you a judge over another''s servants? |
| 41300 | Those who murdered Banquo, what did they win by it? |
| 41300 | To whom lies the last appeal? |
| 41300 | Was it not much better and kinder, both to sleep upon them myself, and to allow others also the pleasure of sleeping upon them? |
| 41300 | What States are to secede? |
| 41300 | What am I to be? |
| 41300 | What are their crimes, that they hide themselves in darkness? |
| 41300 | What has he done? |
| 41300 | What induces this armed pursuit and this arrest of fugitives, of all ages and both sexes? |
| 41300 | What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure, or, to use the phraseology of the times,_ during feeling_? |
| 41300 | What is that glorious recollection which thrills through his frame, and suffuses his eyes? |
| 41300 | What is there which either his friends, or the friends of the country, could wish to have been otherwise? |
| 41300 | What is to become of the army? |
| 41300 | What is to become of the navy? |
| 41300 | What is to become of the public lands? |
| 41300 | What is to remain American? |
| 41300 | What other orb shall emit a ray to glimmer, even, on the darkness of the world? |
| 41300 | When the traveller pauses on the plain of Marathon,[4] what are the emotions which most strongly agitate his breast? |
| 41300 | Where do they find the power to interfere with the laws of the Union? |
| 41300 | Where is the eagle still to tower? |
| 41300 | Where is the flag of the republic to remain? |
| 41300 | Where is the line to be drawn? |
| 41300 | Who can estimate the amount, or the value, of the augmentation of the commerce of the world that has resulted from America? |
| 41300 | Who did he suppose was to decide that question? |
| 41300 | Who is so foolish-- I beg everybody''s pardon-- as to expect to see any such thing? |
| 41300 | Who is to judge between the people and the government? |
| 41300 | Who shall frame together the skilful architecture which unites national sovereignty with State rights, individual security, and public prosperity? |
| 41300 | Who shall interpret their will, where it may be supposed they have left it doubtful? |
| 41300 | Who shall rear again the well- proportioned columns of constitutional liberty? |
| 41300 | Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable? |
| 41300 | Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity? |
| 41300 | Who would wish that his country''s existence had otherwise begun? |
| 41300 | Who, then, shall construe this grant of the people? |
| 41300 | Whose agent is it? |
| 41300 | Whose eyeballs would not be seared by such a spectacle? |
| 41300 | Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? |
| 41300 | Why then, why then, Sir, do we not as soon as possible change this from a civil to a national war? |
| 41300 | Why was_ he_ singled out? |
| 41300 | Why, then, should we defer the Declaration? |
| 41300 | Why, what would be the result? |
| 41300 | With whom do they repose this ultimate right of deciding on the powers of the government? |
| 41300 | Would anything, with such a principle in it, or rather with such a destitution of all principle, be fit to be called a government? |
| 41300 | Would it have been quite amiable in me, Sir, to interrupt this excellent good feeling? |
| 41300 | Yes, Sir, and what sort of a war has he made of it? |
| 41300 | [ Sidenote: Are protective tariffs unconstitutional usurpations?] |
| 41300 | [ Sidenote: Are the States the final judges of the acts of the general government?] |
| 41300 | [ Sidenote: May State legislatures arrest national laws?] |
| 41300 | did she threaten to interfere, by State authority, to annul the laws of the Union? |
| 41300 | or is he to cower, and shrink, and fall to the ground? |
| 41300 | or rather, which has the best right to decide? |
| 41300 | or will they not act as the people of other countries have acted, and, wearied with a long war, submit, in the end, to a worse oppression? |
| 41300 | that their ambition, though apparently for the moment successful, had but put a barren sceptre in their grasp? |
| 15392 | *** Having now shown what can not save the Union, I return to the question with which I commenced, How can the Union be saved? |
| 15392 | A remarkable change has taken place since; but what did the wise and great men of all parts of the country think of slavery then? |
| 15392 | Absorbed in a thousand trifles, how has the nation all at once come to a stand? |
| 15392 | Admitting, however, that the old United States are in no danger from this principle-- why is it so? |
| 15392 | Again: Have they stood forth faithfully to repel violations of the Constitution? |
| 15392 | All political power may be abused, but is it to stop where abuse may begin? |
| 15392 | An American no longer? |
| 15392 | And are there any degrees of injustice which will withdraw from sovereign power the capacity of making a given law? |
| 15392 | And is it not plain to every man? |
| 15392 | Are all the seeds of distraction or division crushed and dissipated?" |
| 15392 | Because the defence was unsuccessful? |
| 15392 | But can this be done? |
| 15392 | But can you make this compact? |
| 15392 | But does he know how remarks of that sort will be received by the laboring people of the North? |
| 15392 | But how stands the profession of devotion to the Union by our assailants, when brought to this test? |
| 15392 | But what did he say? |
| 15392 | But will it be the last? |
| 15392 | But will the North agree to this? |
| 15392 | Can they point to any State where a powerful oligarchy, possessed of immense wealth, has ever existed without attempting to meddle in the government? |
| 15392 | Do gentlemen perceive the consequences to which their arguments must lead if they are of any value? |
| 15392 | Does not the event show they judged rightly? |
| 15392 | Does success gild crime into patriotism, and the want of it change heroic self- devotion to imprudence? |
| 15392 | Does the gentleman remember that freedom to preach was first gained, dragging in its train freedom to print? |
| 15392 | Even now, does not manufacturing, banking, and commercial capital perpetually vex our politics? |
| 15392 | Fellow citizens, is this Faneuil Hall doctrine? |
| 15392 | Have sixty years taught us nothing? |
| 15392 | Have they abstained from violating the Constitution? |
| 15392 | Have you settled the questions which you have been so long discussing and deliberating upon at Washington? |
| 15392 | How is each of the thirty States to defend itself? |
| 15392 | How is the Union formed? |
| 15392 | How shall the stream rise above its fountain? |
| 15392 | How would the intimation have been received, that Warren and his associates should have merited a better time? |
| 15392 | If even all those great patriots, and all that enthusiasm for justice and liberty, did not avail to keep us safe in such a Union, what will? |
| 15392 | If it is, why does our power of correction sleep? |
| 15392 | If this be so, what are they worth? |
| 15392 | If we look back to the history of the commerce of this country in the early years of this government, what were our exports? |
| 15392 | If you make it enter into a new and additional compact, is it any longer the same Union? |
| 15392 | In 1831, what was the state of things? |
| 15392 | In what estimation did they hold it at the time when this Constitution was adopted? |
| 15392 | Is a citizen, or are the courts of justice to inquire whether that, or any other law, is just, before they obey or execute it? |
| 15392 | Is all peace and all quiet?" |
| 15392 | Is all quiet-- all happy? |
| 15392 | Is it denied that those States possess a republican form of government? |
| 15392 | Is it, then, not certain, that if something is not done to arrest it, the South will be forced to choose between abolition and secession? |
| 15392 | Is the assertion of such freedom before the age? |
| 15392 | Is the doctrine to be sustained here that it is imprudent for men to aid magistrates in executing the laws? |
| 15392 | Is the original cause of the movement-- that slavery is a sin, and ought to be suppressed-- weaker now than at the commencement? |
| 15392 | Is the right to hold slaves a right which Massachusetts enjoys? |
| 15392 | Is there any danger of the torch being applied to any portion of the country? |
| 15392 | Is there any thing inherently wrong in such denunciation of such criticism? |
| 15392 | Is there any violation of principle there? |
| 15392 | It has been asked why Lovejoy and his friends did not appeal to the executive-- trust their defence to the police of the city? |
| 15392 | It is in fact simply this: Has the civil magistrate a right to put down a riot? |
| 15392 | Men are continually asking each other, Had Lovejoy a right to resist? |
| 15392 | Mr. President, what is a compromise? |
| 15392 | Mr. President, what is an individual man? |
| 15392 | Now, I ask, what limitation can possibly be placed upon the powers of a government claiming and exercising such rights? |
| 15392 | On a church resolution, hidden often in its records, and meant only as a decent cover for servility in daily practice? |
| 15392 | On a few cold prayers, mere lip- service, and never from the heart? |
| 15392 | On political parties, with their superficial influence at best, and seeking ordinarily only to use existing prejudices to the best advantage? |
| 15392 | Or has the South greater means of influencing or controlling the movements of this Government now, than it had when the agitation commenced? |
| 15392 | Perhaps not-- but who shall answer for their successors? |
| 15392 | Pray, what is the evidence which every gentleman must have obtained on this subject, from information sought by himself or communicated by others? |
| 15392 | Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? |
| 15392 | Shall we, then, trust to mere politics, where even revolution has failed? |
| 15392 | So much before the age as to leave one no right to make it because it displeases the community? |
| 15392 | That speaker has lived twenty- two years, and the complaint of twenty- three millions of people is,"Shall we never hear of any thing but slavery?" |
| 15392 | The Union is a compact; and is it an equal party to that compact, because it has equal Federal rights? |
| 15392 | The man who understands his own time, and whose genius moulds the future to his views, he is a statesman, is he not? |
| 15392 | The next question to be considered is: What has caused this belief? |
| 15392 | The next question, going one step further back, is: What has caused this widely- diffused and almost universal discontent? |
| 15392 | The question is, what must we do if we do anything? |
| 15392 | The question now is, Did he act within the constitution and the laws? |
| 15392 | The question then recurs: What is the cause of this discontent? |
| 15392 | The question, then, is, How can this be done? |
| 15392 | Was Hampden imprudent when he drew the sword and threw away the scabbard? |
| 15392 | Well, what was the result? |
| 15392 | What States are to secede? |
| 15392 | What am I to be? |
| 15392 | What are we-- what is any man-- worth who is not ready and willing to sacrifice himself for the benefit of his country when it is necessary? |
| 15392 | What consequence follows? |
| 15392 | What else was it that foiled the whole power of Persia at Marathon and Salamis? |
| 15392 | What follows? |
| 15392 | What is a State in the sense of the Constitution? |
| 15392 | What is that Union? |
| 15392 | What is the denunciation with which we are charged? |
| 15392 | What is this harsh criticism of motives with which we are charged? |
| 15392 | What is to become of the army? |
| 15392 | What is to become of the navy? |
| 15392 | What is to become of the public lands? |
| 15392 | What is to remain American? |
| 15392 | What may you not do by dexterity and perseverance with this terrific power? |
| 15392 | What must it be? |
| 15392 | What must we admit, and into what? |
| 15392 | What new guaranties does he propose to prevent the voyage from being again turned into a piratical slave- trading cruise? |
| 15392 | What then is the professed result? |
| 15392 | What was the course of my friend upon this subject of the Wilmot proviso? |
| 15392 | What were the purposes of coming into the Union among the original States? |
| 15392 | What will be the judgment of our constituents, when we return to them and they ask us:"How have you left your country? |
| 15392 | What would become of Missouri? |
| 15392 | Where is the eagle still to tower? |
| 15392 | Where is the flag of the Republic to remain? |
| 15392 | Where is the line to be drawn? |
| 15392 | Where shall our church organizations or parties get strength to attack their great parent and moulder, the slave power? |
| 15392 | Where, then, was the imprudence? |
| 15392 | Who converted these men and their distinguished associates? |
| 15392 | Who could tune for Slavery? |
| 15392 | Who doubts it? |
| 15392 | Who invents this libel on his country? |
| 15392 | Who is so foolish-- I beg everybody''s pardon-- as to expect to see any such thing? |
| 15392 | Who, then, or what converted Burlingame and Wilson, Sumner and Adams, Palfrey and Mann, Chase and Hale, and Phillips and Giddings? |
| 15392 | Why give mobs to one and monuments to the other? |
| 15392 | Why is the constitutional guaranty suffered to be inactive? |
| 15392 | Why should not slave capital exert the same influence? |
| 15392 | Why, sir, what coercion is there? |
| 15392 | Why, what would be the result? |
| 15392 | Why, who are the laboring people of the North? |
| 15392 | Why? |
| 15392 | Will not all the monarchs of the Old World pronounce our glorious Republic a disgraceful failure? |
| 15392 | Will she join the arrondissement of the slave States? |
| 15392 | Will the gentlemen tell us that it is the quantity of slaves, not the quality of slavery, which takes from a government the republican form? |
| 15392 | Will the honorable Senator permit me to interrupt him for a moment? |
| 15392 | Will the militia of the nation, which must furnish our soldiers and seamen, increase as slaves increase? |
| 15392 | Will you go home and leave all in disorder and confusion-- all unsettled-- all open? |
| 15392 | Yes, but what sort of a compact? |
| 15392 | You have thus had forced upon you the greatest and the gravest question that can ever come under your consideration: How can the Union be preserved? |
| 15392 | or is he to cower, and shrink, and fall to the ground? |
| 15392 | what response, Mr. President, can you make to that wife of your choice and those children with whom you have been blessed by God? |
| 45230 | Can we too soon put a stop to such a scene of carnage? 45230 Fu vera gloria? |
| 45230 | Sed jam serpentum major concordia: parcit Cognatis maculis similis fera: quando leoni Fortior eripuit vitam leo? 45230 [ 161] The strife is still pending, and who shall say when it will end? |
| 45230 | [ 36] And will intelligent man look for justice to an ever- rolling wheel armed with scythes? 45230 _ Don Pedre._ Souhaitez- vous quelque chose de moi? |
| 45230 | ''What is that?'' |
| 45230 | After setting forth that"a duel may be granted in some cases by the law of England,"he asks,"But whether is this lawful?" |
| 45230 | And here, while you declare, with commendable frankness, that you"would by no means be understood to vindicate the justice"( why not say the_ truth_?) |
| 45230 | And if he thought that to be a Massachusetts Senator was a prouder title still, who shall blame him? |
| 45230 | And is it not doubly so, when the opposite party is weak and the offender strong? |
| 45230 | And is it right in nations to prolong a usage, monstrous and impious in individuals? |
| 45230 | And suppose New England stands alone in these efforts; suppose Massachusetts stands alone: is it not a noble isolation? |
| 45230 | And the question recurs, Have these powers been imparted in such wise to Edward Webster? |
| 45230 | And the question recurs, Was it_ right_ to declare unjust and cowardly war, with superadded falsehood, in the cause of Slavery? |
| 45230 | And what is this duty? |
| 45230 | And when is honor at stake? |
| 45230 | And who are the Whigs? |
| 45230 | And why is this war to be maintained? |
| 45230 | And why may not its benediction descend upon nations also? |
| 45230 | And, first, is Edward Webster legally commissioned as"an officer of the United States"? |
| 45230 | And, pray, what is Mr. Winthrop''s idea of an"honorable peace"? |
| 45230 | And,_ first_, what may we expect from him against_ Slavery_? |
| 45230 | Are Treaties of Amity mere words? |
| 45230 | Are We a Nation? |
| 45230 | Are professions of Peace vain? |
| 45230 | Are relations of Commerce and mutual interest mere things of a day? |
| 45230 | Are we not told by the poet, that sheep and swine take contagion from one of their number, and even a grape is spoiled by another grape? |
| 45230 | Are you aware that you indulge the same sentiment on a gigantic scale, when you recognize this very point of honor as a proper apology for War? |
| 45230 | As he falls on the field of war, must not all these rush with his blood? |
| 45230 | B.?" |
| 45230 | Besides, what am I, what is any man among the living or among the dead, compared with the question before us? |
| 45230 | But if the Duel be unlawful, how then with War? |
| 45230 | But is it not too often construed so as to exclude exertion in any other walk, or to serve as a cloak for indifference to other things? |
| 45230 | But whence the danger? |
| 45230 | But who can measure the distress that radiates as from a bloody sun, penetrating innumerable homes? |
| 45230 | But who can measure the extent of its influence? |
| 45230 | But who confessing its truth will resort to force on any point of_ honor_? |
| 45230 | By what necromancy do these pass from wrong to right? |
| 45230 | Can Nations be less amenable to the supreme moral law? |
| 45230 | Can a people in whom this faith is more than an idle word authorize such enormous sacrifices to pamper the Spirit of War? |
| 45230 | Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable? |
| 45230 | Can this be the sentiment of Boston? |
| 45230 | Can this take place with our consent, nay, without our most determined opposition? |
| 45230 | Can we afford to send a representative who can make such a mistake? |
| 45230 | Coues,"United States Navy: What is its Use?" |
| 45230 | Could the most cruel conqueror say less? |
| 45230 | Did he not see with the eyes of others? |
| 45230 | Do we live in a Christian land? |
| 45230 | Does an American statesman venture any such suggestion in vindication, apology, or extenuation of war? |
| 45230 | Else why not repose in quiet, unvexed by Preparations for War? |
| 45230 | For what is the Army of the United States, but the feeble shadow of the American people? |
| 45230 | For what purpose? |
| 45230 | From the child is formed the man; and who can weigh the influence of a mother''s spirit on the opinions of his life? |
| 45230 | Had you conquered the Devil himself in Hell, could you be less liberal?" |
| 45230 | Has America done anything, on her part, to induce us to agree to so large a ground of concession?'' |
| 45230 | Has Edward Webster a right to detain the petitioner? |
| 45230 | Has sensibility to human suffering lost any of the keenness of its edge? |
| 45230 | Here the question arises, Is there any_ compromise_ in the Constitution of such a character as to prevent action? |
| 45230 | Here the question occurs, What was the duty of Congress in this emergency? |
| 45230 | How add to the inheritance received? |
| 45230 | How can they hope for more than they render? |
| 45230 | How can they hope to be remembered beyond the present? |
| 45230 | How can they think to be remembered beyond the operation of their labors? |
| 45230 | How justly might the Philanthropist have borrowed the exalted words of the Sonnet to Cyriac Skinner!--"What supports me, dost thou ask? |
| 45230 | How, then, can we strive to hasten the triumph of wrong? |
| 45230 | I adopt the sentiments of Milton, and ask, Is not perseverance in wrong- doing hurtful and offensive to every Christian? |
| 45230 | I shall no doubt hear it objected,''Why should we submit or concede? |
| 45230 | If individuals or communities once recognized the Truce of God, why not again? |
| 45230 | If separation be desirable, should it not be complete? |
| 45230 | If these do not exist, where is its aliment, where the fuel for the flame? |
| 45230 | In such intrenchments what Christian soul can be touched with fear? |
| 45230 | In the lapse of these few years has the love of freedom diminished? |
| 45230 | In what book of morals is it written, that what is bad before it is undertaken becomes righteous merely from the circumstance that it is commenced? |
| 45230 | In what vain conceit of wisdom and virtue do you find this incongruous morality? |
| 45230 | Is True Honor promoted where justice is not? |
| 45230 | Is it a baptism of blood unjustly shed? |
| 45230 | Is it not the post of honor? |
| 45230 | Is it peace imposed upon a weak neighbor by brute force, the successful consummation of unrighteous war? |
| 45230 | Is it said that the age does not demand this work? |
| 45230 | Is it the Saturnalia of Slavery? |
| 45230 | Is it the fruit of sin? |
| 45230 | Is it the triumph of wrong? |
| 45230 | Is it too much to suppose that his refined artistic sense, recognizing expression as the highest beauty of Art, unconsciously judged the picture? |
| 45230 | Is not perseverance in wrong- doing hurtful and offensive to every Christian commonwealth? |
| 45230 | Is not that name profaned by this apology? |
| 45230 | Is the circumstance that the contract is made with the Government any ground of exception? |
| 45230 | Is the circumstance that the contract is_ military_ any ground of exception? |
| 45230 | Is the contract legal or illegal, under the Act of Congress? |
| 45230 | Is the petitioner liable to be detained by anybody? |
| 45230 | Is this the nineteenth century? |
| 45230 | It was easy to see the importance of separation; but how should it be applied? |
| 45230 | Its horrors who can tell? |
| 45230 | Jurisprudence has many arrows in her quiver, but where is one to compare with that which is now spent in the earth? |
| 45230 | Must not the mass, in its conscience, be like the individuals of which it is composed? |
| 45230 | O, yet a nobler task awaits thy hand,( For what can war but endless war still breed?) |
| 45230 | Of what use is the detachment of the First Artillery in that pleasant resort of fashion, Newport? |
| 45230 | Of what use is the detachment of the Second Artillery at the quiet town of New London, in Connecticut? |
| 45230 | On what side? |
| 45230 | Shall Whigs support what is contrary to the fundamental principles of the party? |
| 45230 | Shall the mass, in relations with other masses, do what individuals in relations with each other may not do? |
| 45230 | Shall we be less faithful than they? |
| 45230 | Should not the conducting wires be broken, so that no electrical spark may propagate its disturbing force? |
| 45230 | Suppose War decided by_ Force_, where is the glory? |
| 45230 | Suppose it decided by_ Chance_, where is the glory? |
| 45230 | Tell me, you with friends and kindred abroad, or you bound to other lands only by relations of commerce, are you ready for this rude separation? |
| 45230 | The question here arises, How shall this party, inspired by these principles, now act? |
| 45230 | Think you that a band of savages could have slain these Senators, if the_ appeal to Force_ had not been made first by one of their own number? |
| 45230 | What can we do to make our coming welcome to our fathers in the skies, and draw to our memory hereafter the homage of a grateful posterity? |
| 45230 | What canvas or marble can portray them? |
| 45230 | What fabulous monster, what chimæra dire, ever raged with a maw so ravenous? |
| 45230 | What is office? |
| 45230 | What just man would sacrifice a single human life to bring under our rule both Texas and Oregon? |
| 45230 | What may we expect from him as to the_ Mexican War_? |
| 45230 | What mortal shall restrict the application of these words? |
| 45230 | What pen can describe these? |
| 45230 | What people to fear? |
| 45230 | When shall it be dethroned? |
| 45230 | Whence do you draw these partial laws of an impartial God? |
| 45230 | Where is it declared that God, who is no respecter of persons, is a respecter of multitudes? |
| 45230 | Where is the Palma who can complete what our Titian has left unfinished? |
| 45230 | Who beforehand can measure the currents of the heady fight? |
| 45230 | Who believes that the national honor would be promoted by a war with Mexico or a war with England? |
| 45230 | Who can calculate the cost of all the Preparations at Woolwich, its 27,000 cannon, and its small arms counted by hundreds of thousands? |
| 45230 | Who can contemplate such a city without delight? |
| 45230 | Who can forget his bounding step, his contagious laugh, his exhilarating voice, his beaming smile, his countenance that shone like a benediction? |
| 45230 | Who can forget the Bastile? |
| 45230 | Who can give the gauge and dimensions of this infinite sorrow? |
| 45230 | Who can listen to the story of her sorrows without a pang? |
| 45230 | Who can measure the influence from an image of beauty, affection, and truth? |
| 45230 | Who can tell the immense sums expended in hollowing out the living rock of Gibraltar? |
| 45230 | Who is? |
| 45230 | Who of us does not each day, in manifold ways, sacrifice these precious moments, these golden hours? |
| 45230 | Who on earth is authorized to transmute wrong into right? |
| 45230 | Who on earth is empowered to vary or abridge the commandments of God? |
| 45230 | Who would barter these for gold or silver? |
| 45230 | Who would deny allegiance to right? |
| 45230 | Who would profess allegiance to wrong? |
| 45230 | Who, then, is God of Battles? |
| 45230 | Why is it not accursed in the sight of man? |
| 45230 | Why not do the same with the police, and set another example to the country? |
| 45230 | Will Massachusetts oppose a less unbroken front now than then? |
| 45230 | Will he oppose, at all times, without compromise, any further addition of slaveholding States? |
| 45230 | Will he promote all constitutional measures for its overthrow? |
| 45230 | [ 24] What catalogue of horrors more complete than the Russian campaign? |
| 45230 | [ 70] Admit the injury received, seeming to sully the character; is it wiped away by any force, and descent to the brutal level of its author? |
| 45230 | _ For what use is the Navy of the United States?_ The annual expense of our Navy, during recent years, has been upwards of six millions of dollars. |
| 45230 | and what is wealth? |
| 45230 | any conductor to hurry its terrors innocently beneath the concealing bosom of the earth? |
| 45230 | how long? |
| 45230 | or what spectacle can be conceived more great and striking? |
| 45230 | quo nemore unquam Exspiravit aper majoris dentibus apri? |
| 45230 | thus to find glory in an act, performed by a nation, which you condemn as a crime or a barbarism, when committed by an individual? |
| 45230 | why confine regard to a few feet of sacred mould? |
| 15393 | ("What have you to say against it?") |
| 15393 | ("What of it?") |
| 15393 | *** Sir, if this was a compact, what must be thought of those who violated it almost immediately after it was formed? |
| 15393 | *** Well, sir, what is this Missouri compromise, of which we have heard so much of late? |
| 15393 | *** Why these attacks on individuals by name, and two thirds of the Senate collectively? |
| 15393 | And all for what? |
| 15393 | And how was this to be enumerated among the high crimes which caused the colonies to sever their connection with the mother country? |
| 15393 | And what does Slavery ask for now? |
| 15393 | And what was the reply made to me on that occasion? |
| 15393 | And why the hasty after indorsement of the decision by the President and others? |
| 15393 | Are they in a position to complain of the action of this Government for years past? |
| 15393 | Are they not just? |
| 15393 | Are they not right? |
| 15393 | Are we to allow such fearful catastrophes to occur while we stand trifling away our time? |
| 15393 | Are you against sacrilege? |
| 15393 | Are you against;robbery? |
| 15393 | Are you for the protection of American citizens? |
| 15393 | Are you opposed to the acquisition of any more territory, under any circumstances, unless slavery is prohibited in it? |
| 15393 | As to the rest of this body, the gentlemen from the South, I would say to them, can you ask more than this? |
| 15393 | But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he himself has given no intimation? |
| 15393 | But how? |
| 15393 | But if it is, how can he resist it? |
| 15393 | But if you did, what would be the consequence? |
| 15393 | But what has caused this great excitement that undoubtedly prevails in a portion of our country? |
| 15393 | But what has caused this great excitement? |
| 15393 | But who resists it? |
| 15393 | By our judgment? |
| 15393 | Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest? |
| 15393 | Can it be that our name is to rest in history with this everlasting stigma and blot upon it? |
| 15393 | Can not we direct it harmlessly to the earth? |
| 15393 | Can we not do so again? |
| 15393 | Can we realize it? |
| 15393 | Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference? |
| 15393 | Did any objector to them at the North ever even suggest as a ground of condemnation that that prohibition was swept away by them? |
| 15393 | Did he ever transgress any law? |
| 15393 | Did he invoke Southern support upon the ground that it superseded the Missouri prohibition? |
| 15393 | Did not they have this institution of slavery imprinted upon them by the power of the mother country? |
| 15393 | Did the Senator from Iowa, then, entertain the idea that the Missouri prohibition had been superseded? |
| 15393 | Did they advance any idea of that kind? |
| 15393 | Did they propose to repeal the prohibition? |
| 15393 | Did they suggest that it had been superseded? |
| 15393 | Did you not know that before to- day, before this session commenced? |
| 15393 | Do they not know that he disclaimed it in 1850 in this body? |
| 15393 | Do they not know that the Missouri restriction did not originate in the House, of which he was a member? |
| 15393 | Do you ask me to support a government that will tax my property; that will plunder me; that will demand my blood, and will not protect me? |
| 15393 | Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching? |
| 15393 | Does he really think so? |
| 15393 | Does it remain in force? |
| 15393 | Does that exclude those whose blood and money paid for it? |
| 15393 | Does that make it the same as other property? |
| 15393 | Does"dispose of"mean to rob the rightful owners? |
| 15393 | Examine your Constitution; are slaves the only species of property there recognized as requiring peculiar protection? |
| 15393 | Had the Declaration announced that the negroes were free and equal, how was the Prince to be arraigned for stirring up insurrection among them? |
| 15393 | Has he ever committed any violation of duty of which the most scrupulous can complain? |
| 15393 | Has he not lived a blameless life? |
| 15393 | Has he read the history of"the State"which he represents? |
| 15393 | Have they shown it? |
| 15393 | Have we no tendency to the latter condition? |
| 15393 | Have we realized to ourselves the momentous consequences of such an event? |
| 15393 | He says:"On what do they found the assertion that the Constitution recognizes slavery as property? |
| 15393 | He then inquired if it was not so in regard to Texas? |
| 15393 | How came they free States? |
| 15393 | How came this to be there, if a slave is property? |
| 15393 | How can he oppose the advances of slavery? |
| 15393 | How can he refuse that trade in that"property"shall be"perfectly free,"unless he does it as a protection to the home production? |
| 15393 | How can we best do it? |
| 15393 | How dare he approach one of those gentlemen to give him his hand after that act? |
| 15393 | How did they get rid of it? |
| 15393 | How is it now? |
| 15393 | How is it with the leaders of this modern revolution? |
| 15393 | How is it? |
| 15393 | How long could you have postponed action with safety? |
| 15393 | How long could you maintain that Indian barrier, and restrain the onward march of civilization, Christianity, and free government by a barbarian wall? |
| 15393 | How much social intercourse is there between us? |
| 15393 | How then try it? |
| 15393 | How, then, dare you call upon the spirit of that great and gallant statesman to sanction your charge of bad faith against the South on this question? |
| 15393 | I ask Mr. Lincoln whether he is in favor of that proposition? |
| 15393 | I exclaimed,''Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?''" |
| 15393 | If he so believed, who could suppose that he would ever show his face among such a body of men? |
| 15393 | If it is the same as other property, why have any provision about it?''" |
| 15393 | If it is to be repealed, why not say so? |
| 15393 | If this be property in the States, what is the nature and extent of it? |
| 15393 | Is it a masquerade, to last for a night, or a reality to be dealt with, with the world''s rough passionate handling? |
| 15393 | Is it his object to provoke some of us to kick him as we would a dog in the street, that he may get sympathy upon the just chastisement? |
| 15393 | Is it in the bond? |
| 15393 | Is it not a mere begging of the question to say that those compromise measures, adopted in this specific case, amount to such a general rule? |
| 15393 | Is it not the cheapest price at which such a blessing as this Union was ever purchased? |
| 15393 | Is it possible, sir, that this was a mere clerical error? |
| 15393 | Is it the object to drive men here to dissolve social relations with political opponents? |
| 15393 | Is it to turn the Senate into a bear garden, where Senators can not associate on terms which ought to prevail between gentlemen? |
| 15393 | Is such a picture overdrawn? |
| 15393 | Is there any provision in the Constitution for it? |
| 15393 | It is this: does the Constitution of the United States make slaves property beyond the jurisdiction of the States authorizing slavery? |
| 15393 | May it not be that this twenty- first section was the fruit of some Sunday work, between Saturday the 7th, and Tuesday the 10th? |
| 15393 | Mr. Brooks( resuming):--If I desired to kill the Senator, why did not I do it? |
| 15393 | Now the question is, does that guaranty it? |
| 15393 | Now, Mr. President, does not each of these Senators know that Mr. Clay was not the author of the act of 1820? |
| 15393 | Now, sir, what becomes of our plighted faith, if the act of the 6th of March, 1820, was a solemn compact, as we are now told? |
| 15393 | Now, sir, what is it of which gentlemen complain? |
| 15393 | Now, sir, when was this said? |
| 15393 | Now, sir, who is responsible for this renewal of strife and controversy? |
| 15393 | Now, what did the committee pro- pose? |
| 15393 | Now, what do you complain of? |
| 15393 | On this point the gentleman declares:"Will not anybody see that this constitutional provision, if it works one way, must work the other? |
| 15393 | On what protection does this vast property rest? |
| 15393 | Ought it not to be so? |
| 15393 | Pray, sir, by what title does he indulge in this egotism? |
| 15393 | Senators, will you unite in a statement which you know to be contradicted by the history of the country? |
| 15393 | Shall I tell you what this collision means? |
| 15393 | The Supreme Court of the United States says,"well; is not this a recognition of slavery, of property in slaves?" |
| 15393 | The question was propounded to them,"What are the rights of a British owner of a slave in England?" |
| 15393 | Then they will have a right to permit slavery to exist in it; and what do you gain for the cause of anti- slavery? |
| 15393 | Then what took place at the commencement of the present session? |
| 15393 | They that have been in a minority? |
| 15393 | They that have been the subjects of an oppressive and aggressive Government? |
| 15393 | This right of equality being, then, according to justice and natural equity, a right belonging to all States, when did we give it up? |
| 15393 | Upon questions concerning this line of division between slavery and freedom? |
| 15393 | Was it opposed or vindicated by anybody on any such ground? |
| 15393 | Was there any provision in it which even squinted toward this notion of repeal by supersedure? |
| 15393 | Well, can the Supreme Court decide it for us? |
| 15393 | Well, sir, what can we do to prevent it? |
| 15393 | Well, sir, what did the committee propose to do with the Nebraska Territory? |
| 15393 | What are you going to do? |
| 15393 | What becomes of its glorious influence? |
| 15393 | What can justify the breaking up of our institutions into belligerent fractions? |
| 15393 | What do the rebels demand? |
| 15393 | What do they say in that? |
| 15393 | What does he say? |
| 15393 | What for? |
| 15393 | What have I done to render me obnoxious to this charge? |
| 15393 | What irrepealable laws? |
| 15393 | What is the condition of an enactment which is declared by a subsequent act of Congress to be"inoperative and void?" |
| 15393 | What is the date of that? |
| 15393 | What is the object of this denunciation against the body of which we are members? |
| 15393 | What is the point we are to inquire into? |
| 15393 | What man, at what time, in what speech, ever suggested the idea that the acts of that year were to affect the Missouri compromise? |
| 15393 | What mean the minute- men of Governor Wise? |
| 15393 | What mean these lavish grants of money by Southern Legislatures to buy more arms? |
| 15393 | What mean these rumors of arms and force on the Mississippi? |
| 15393 | What means the Pittsburgh mob? |
| 15393 | What more could Mr. Chase give by his amendment? |
| 15393 | What sacrifice is too great to prevent such a calamity? |
| 15393 | What says the Senator from Maine( Mr. Fessenden)? |
| 15393 | What the Southern boast that they have a rifle or shot- gun to each family? |
| 15393 | What then; by yours? |
| 15393 | What this alacrity to save Forts Moultrie and Pinckney? |
| 15393 | What would be the fair proportion? |
| 15393 | What would you then give them? |
| 15393 | What, then, will you take? |
| 15393 | When has the world seen such an event? |
| 15393 | Where he came from? |
| 15393 | Who are the Senators thus arraigned? |
| 15393 | Who has, in spite of the decision, declared Dred Scott free, and resisted the authority of his master over him? |
| 15393 | Who is it that is complaining? |
| 15393 | Who of us is not proud of the greatness we have achieved? |
| 15393 | Why can we not adopt the principle of this bill as a rule of action in all new Territorial organizations? |
| 15393 | Why can we not deprive these agitators of their vocation and render it impossible for Senators to come here upon bargains on the slavery question? |
| 15393 | Why did it not run"that we would support the Constitution of the United States unless our State shall secede before our term was out?" |
| 15393 | Why even a Senator''s individual opinion withheld till after the Presidential election? |
| 15393 | Why mention a State? |
| 15393 | Why the delay of a re- argument? |
| 15393 | Why the incoming President''s advance exhortation in favor of the decision? |
| 15393 | Why the outgoing President''s felicitation on the indorsement? |
| 15393 | Why was it a useless and senseless thing? |
| 15393 | Why was the amendment expressly declaring the right of the people voted down? |
| 15393 | Why was the court decision held up? |
| 15393 | Why, then, can we not withdraw this vexed question from politics? |
| 15393 | Why, then, your suspicions that he will? |
| 15393 | Why? |
| 15393 | Will any one of my accusers dare to make this issue, and let it be tried by the record? |
| 15393 | Will the Senator allow me? |
| 15393 | Will the Senator from Illinois take notice? |
| 15393 | Without this protection, what would be the condition of the northern inventor? |
| 15393 | Would not this be so? |
| 15393 | Would you be justified in the eyes of the civilized world in taking so monstrous a position, and predicating it on a bare, groundless suspicion? |
| 15393 | You would give them the whole of that; and then what would be its fate? |
| 15393 | was that he endeavored to do just what the North had been endeavoring of late to do-- to stir up insurrection among our slaves? |
| 15394 | Do you avow the party purpose? |
| 15394 | How so? 15394 Is it not a fact that in most of the Northern States laws exist precluding negroes from equal civil and political rights with the whites? |
| 15394 | *** What is the nature of this case with which we have to deal, the evil we must remedy, the danger we must avert? |
| 15394 | *** When gentlemen have succeeded in their design of an immediate or gradual destruction of the American system, what is their substitute? |
| 15394 | ***** What then can we do to arrest the fall of silver and to advance its market value? |
| 15394 | And I ask the cotton- planter if he has not been better and more cheaply supplied with his cotton- bagging? |
| 15394 | And are we not bound deliberately to consider whether we can proceed to this work of destruction without a violation of the public faith? |
| 15394 | And how would the large portion of our country, which I have described, be supplied, but for the home exchanges? |
| 15394 | And now, if such are the evils of the spoils system, what are, by way of compensation, the virtues it possesses, and the benefits it confers? |
| 15394 | And should any one, in any case, be content that his oath should go unkept, on a mere unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept? |
| 15394 | And when in Manchester I saw those huge placards:"Who is Henry Ward Beecher?" |
| 15394 | And who are those men in the North that have oppressed the negro? |
| 15394 | And why should we? |
| 15394 | And why would you not? |
| 15394 | Are not Canada and South America and Mexico your natural markets? |
| 15394 | Are not gentlemen now perfectly satisfied that they have mistaken a people for a faction? |
| 15394 | Are these due to the accident of a State being a member of that Union or to the beneficent principle of the system itself? |
| 15394 | Are they not intended for disorganization in our very midst? |
| 15394 | Are they not intended to animate our enemies? |
| 15394 | Are they not intended to destroy our zeal? |
| 15394 | Are they not intended to dull our weapons? |
| 15394 | Are they to do it with regulation, or without it? |
| 15394 | Are we not bound to do, with whomever levies war against us, as we would do if he were a foreigner? |
| 15394 | Are we to predict evil, and retire from what we predict? |
| 15394 | Are we to stop and talk about an uprising sentiment in the North against the war? |
| 15394 | As a Senator said, is New York in resistance to the Government? |
| 15394 | As the Senator from Illinois has well said, shall it be done by regulation or without regulation? |
| 15394 | As we progress southward and invade the country, must we not, said he, carry with us all the laws of war? |
| 15394 | But I ask you, what prudent man among you would deposit his money in it, or invest in its stock? |
| 15394 | But how will this change affect the great mass of our fellow- citizens who depend upon their daily labor? |
| 15394 | But is it correct? |
| 15394 | But the motive determines the value; and why are we fighting for the Union? |
| 15394 | But who ever sympathized with a weak thief, because three constables had got hold of him? |
| 15394 | But who shall decide that such cause exists? |
| 15394 | But why has no President adopted it? |
| 15394 | But would not reform be secured by adding to a fixed limited term the safeguard of removal for cause only? |
| 15394 | Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? |
| 15394 | Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? |
| 15394 | Can we do anything more? |
| 15394 | Can we expose to utter and irretrievable ruin this countless multitude, without justly incurring the reproach of violating the national faith? |
| 15394 | Did he ever think of that? |
| 15394 | Did they sustain it? |
| 15394 | Do you not know it? |
| 15394 | Do you sympathize with the minority in Rome or the majority in Italy? |
| 15394 | Does not everybody know it? |
| 15394 | Does not the Senator know, in fact, that those States compose military districts? |
| 15394 | Does not the world know it? |
| 15394 | Does not this contradict all the distinctive principles of the Declaration of Independence? |
| 15394 | Does not this fact, however, demonstrate that the cultivation of it could not have been so very unprofitable? |
| 15394 | First, then, in what sense can the spoils system be called essentially American? |
| 15394 | For what? |
| 15394 | Have not loyal blacks quite as good a right to choose rulers and make laws as rebel whites? |
| 15394 | He asks, what must we do? |
| 15394 | Her liberty is to be found-- where? |
| 15394 | Here we have been hurling gallant fellows on to death, and the blood of Americans has been shed-- for what? |
| 15394 | How can we expect a President whom this system elects to devote himself to its destruction? |
| 15394 | How could they be supplied with objects of prime necessity? |
| 15394 | How so? |
| 15394 | How, indeed, could they accept any? |
| 15394 | How, then, can such a State adopt the( XIIIth) amendment? |
| 15394 | How? |
| 15394 | I ask him if that is unconstitutional? |
| 15394 | I ask the Senator from Indiana,( Mr. Lane,) when we took Monterey, did we not do it there? |
| 15394 | I ask the Senator to recollect, too, what, save to send aid and comfort to the enemy, do these predictions of his amount to? |
| 15394 | I have hitherto considered the question in reference only to a state of peace; but who can tell when the storm of war shall again break forth? |
| 15394 | If it is the will of the people, what reason-- nay, what excuse-- can there be for further hesitation? |
| 15394 | If it was for the public interest to keep them so long, is it not against the public interest not to keep them longer? |
| 15394 | If it were true, would gentlemen prefer supporting foreign accumulations of wealth by that description of industry, rather than in their own country? |
| 15394 | If not in origin, is the spoils system essentially American in any other sense? |
| 15394 | If so, how? |
| 15394 | If the President could impose such a condition, who was to put bounds to the power of Congress to impose limitations on its part? |
| 15394 | If the South becomes a slave empire, what relation will it have to you as a customer? |
| 15394 | If the business were ruinous, would more and more have annually engaged in it? |
| 15394 | If the civil law is silent, who shall control and regulate the conquered district, who but the military commander? |
| 15394 | If they were, sir, how and when did they become so? |
| 15394 | In fact, are they not all bound together as parts of one system? |
| 15394 | In foreign markets? |
| 15394 | In other words, what is that monster of political wrong which is called secession? |
| 15394 | In our present differences is either party without faith of being in the right? |
| 15394 | In whom does the Constitution place the power? |
| 15394 | Interested outsiders may glory in libelling Congress, but why should its own members? |
| 15394 | Is he capable? |
| 15394 | Is he faithful to the Constitution?" |
| 15394 | Is he to do it in person, or by his military commanders? |
| 15394 | Is it his duty as a Senator to carry it on? |
| 15394 | Is it not a part, a necessary, an indispensable part of war itself, that there shall be military regulations over the country conquered and held? |
| 15394 | Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied? |
| 15394 | Is it unconstitutional to hang a spy? |
| 15394 | Is not the balance of trade, according to the protection theory, to that amount in our favor? |
| 15394 | Is that subjugation? |
| 15394 | Is that unconstitutional? |
| 15394 | Is that unconstitutional? |
| 15394 | Is that wrong? |
| 15394 | Is the President not to execute the law? |
| 15394 | Is there any better or equal hope in the world? |
| 15394 | Is there any danger to the stability of the Government there? |
| 15394 | Is there no patriotism in America without plunder in sight? |
| 15394 | Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States to compose a new Union, as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? |
| 15394 | May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? |
| 15394 | May they not have a common origin? |
| 15394 | May we not, therefore, look with confidence to the ultimate universal acknowledgment of the truths upon which our system rests? |
| 15394 | More-- why should the wages of the 18,000,000 be diminished that those of the half million may be increased? |
| 15394 | Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? |
| 15394 | Now, Great Britain''s chief want is-- what? |
| 15394 | ON THE FIRST RECONSTRUCTION BILL; HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JANUARY 3, 1867 MR. SPEAKER: What are the great questions which now divide the nation? |
| 15394 | On the other hand, a man well off-- how is it with him? |
| 15394 | One party to a contract may violate it-- break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? |
| 15394 | Or would he conduct this war so feebly, that the whole world would smile at us in derision? |
| 15394 | Shall fugitives from labor be surrendered by National or State authority? |
| 15394 | Shall one battle determine the fate of an empire? |
| 15394 | Shall the general, or the colonel, or the captain, be supreme, or shall he be regulated and ordered by the President of the United States? |
| 15394 | Shall we carry that war on? |
| 15394 | Shall we send a flag of truce? |
| 15394 | Sir, are they not words of brilliant, polished treason, even in the very Capitol of the Confederacy? |
| 15394 | Sir, how can we make peace? |
| 15394 | Sir, how can we retreat? |
| 15394 | Subjugation for what? |
| 15394 | Such being the demand for money, what is the supply? |
| 15394 | The Senator asks me,"What would you have us do?" |
| 15394 | The market of the future must be found-- how? |
| 15394 | These speeches of his, sown broadcast over the land, what clear distinct meaning have they? |
| 15394 | To the ignorant and poor, or to the educated and prosperous? |
| 15394 | To those, however, who really love the Union, may I not speak? |
| 15394 | To whom do the tradesmen of Liverpool sell the most goods at the highest profit? |
| 15394 | Upon what terms? |
| 15394 | Was it by the ordinance of secession? |
| 15394 | We accept it now as a fact, and we say that the utterance of Lord Russell at Blairgowrie--[Applause, hisses, and a voice:"What about Lord Brougham?"] |
| 15394 | Were their arms victorious? |
| 15394 | What carpets, what linens, what cottons can you sell them? |
| 15394 | What commissioners? |
| 15394 | What conditions may it insist upon, and what judgment may it exercise in determining what it will do? |
| 15394 | What determines the amount of wages paid? |
| 15394 | What does the minister say? |
| 15394 | What is implied by this? |
| 15394 | What is navigation without ships, or ships without cargoes? |
| 15394 | What is the color of excuse for that action in the State of New York? |
| 15394 | What jurisdiction does the duty of guaranteeing a republican government confer under such circumstances upon Congress? |
| 15394 | What laws may it pass? |
| 15394 | What machines, what looking- glasses, what combs, what leather, what books, what pictures, what engravings? |
| 15394 | What more is necessary, then, for reform than that the President should return to that practice? |
| 15394 | What objects may it accomplish? |
| 15394 | What of future hopes? |
| 15394 | What of past glories? |
| 15394 | What power would the President have over any one subject of government until Congress had legislated on that subject? |
| 15394 | What power, then, has Congress over gold and silver? |
| 15394 | What remedy, then, will afford the American manufacturer relief? |
| 15394 | What right does it give? |
| 15394 | What then? |
| 15394 | What then? |
| 15394 | What then? |
| 15394 | What then? |
| 15394 | What then? |
| 15394 | What will be the effect of the free coinage of silver? |
| 15394 | What will become of constitutional government? |
| 15394 | What will become of public liberty? |
| 15394 | What would be the condition of the largest portion of our people, and of the territory, if this home market were annihilated? |
| 15394 | What would he have? |
| 15394 | What would he have? |
| 15394 | What would not be the certain and inevitable decline in the price of all these articles, but for the home market? |
| 15394 | What, then, is it that produces a general decline of prices in any country? |
| 15394 | What, then, is the theory of protection? |
| 15394 | When did she shape her legislation with reference to the interests of any foreign power? |
| 15394 | When have we experienced justice, much less favor, at her hands? |
| 15394 | When we subjugate South Carolina, what shall we do? |
| 15394 | When we took Mexico, did we not do it there? |
| 15394 | When, too, the sacrifice is made at the instance of a single interest, which they verily believe will not be promoted by it? |
| 15394 | Where is to be your boundary line? |
| 15394 | Where the end of the principles we shall have to give up? |
| 15394 | Where, where should we find a market for all these articles, if it did not exist at home? |
| 15394 | Wherein does this differ from slavery except in degree? |
| 15394 | Who are the borrowers of money? |
| 15394 | Who are the debtors in this country? |
| 15394 | Who is the United States? |
| 15394 | Who pays this increased price? |
| 15394 | Who shall treat? |
| 15394 | Who would go? |
| 15394 | Whose especial duty is it to do it? |
| 15394 | Why hesitate in the decision? |
| 15394 | Why is not that powerful State attacked? |
| 15394 | Why pass her over, and aim the blow at New England? |
| 15394 | Why play upon words? |
| 15394 | Why should not you? |
| 15394 | Why should the wages of the half million be increased beyond their natural rate, while those of the others remain unchanged? |
| 15394 | Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? |
| 15394 | Why was this done if they were a separate nation? |
| 15394 | Why, if they were not part of the United States? |
| 15394 | Why? |
| 15394 | Why? |
| 15394 | Will he shrink from armed insurrection? |
| 15394 | Will his State justify it? |
| 15394 | Will its better public opinion allow it? |
| 15394 | Will the Senator yield to rebellion? |
| 15394 | Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the certain ills you fly from have no real existence? |
| 15394 | Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from,--will you risk the omission of so fearful a mistake? |
| 15394 | Without that market, where could it be sold? |
| 15394 | You may sell ships to a few, but what ships can you sell to two thirds of the population of poor whites and blacks? |
| 15394 | [ A voice:"Degenerate sons,"applause and hisses; another voice:"What about the Trent?"] |
| 15394 | [ A voice:"How many have you got?" |
| 15394 | [ A voice:"Then how are they clothed?" |
| 15394 | ` Now, what can England make for the poor white population of such a future empire, and for her slave population? |
| 15394 | and is not Mr. Lincoln''s own State one of them? |
| 15394 | and laughter]--and the North a free territory,--what will be the final result? |
| 15394 | is he capable? |
| 15394 | is he faithful to the Constitution?" |
| 15394 | or, the loss of one thousand men or twenty thousand, or$ 100,000,000 or$ 500,000,000? |
| 22240 | Can the leopard change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin? |
| 22240 | Did God make me after he made you? |
| 22240 | Go forwardin what respect? |
| 22240 | Indeed, sir, did you learn the Old English system or the Sullivan system? |
| 22240 | Watchman, what of the night? |
| 22240 | Whar''s mistis''? |
| 22240 | What in the world are you doing here? |
| 22240 | Why so calm, my little man? |
| 22240 | Yes, my child, why? |
| 22240 | ***** Has the Negro made improvement commensurate with the help he has received from North and South? |
| 22240 | --how often these die away into dim whispers when we face these seething millions of black men? |
| 22240 | A religiously inclined youth asked his pastor,"Do you think it would be wrong for me to learn the noble art of self- defense?" |
| 22240 | And may we not profit by this bitter experience? |
| 22240 | And the children? |
| 22240 | And who cares? |
| 22240 | And who cares? |
| 22240 | And yet do they not belong to them? |
| 22240 | Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? |
| 22240 | Are they not their heritage as well as yours? |
| 22240 | Are we ceasing our discrimination against men because they are black? |
| 22240 | Are we living up to the traditions of the Commonwealth, to the principles of the fathers in relation to the treatment of citizens of color? |
| 22240 | Are we of this generation worthy descendants of tea spillers and abolitionists? |
| 22240 | Are we remanded to the back seats and ever held in social dishonor because we are morally unclean? |
| 22240 | Are you afraid to let them try? |
| 22240 | But did the great work stop there? |
| 22240 | But if it is none of these things that doom us to ostracism and degradation, as a people, I ask finally is it our_ color_? |
| 22240 | But is he contented? |
| 22240 | But some of you will ask:"Why bring up these sad memories of the past? |
| 22240 | But suppose it is constitutional, what then? |
| 22240 | But what are these but the ephemera of man''s fevered existence and strivings here below? |
| 22240 | But what of her peoples? |
| 22240 | But what of that? |
| 22240 | But who of them has attempted to immortalize slavery? |
| 22240 | But why a pessimistic outlook, Mr. Chairman? |
| 22240 | Can any serious student of the economic South doubt that this to- day is her crying need? |
| 22240 | Can the Negro do without these? |
| 22240 | Can they bear burdens without strength, know without learning, and aspire without ideals? |
| 22240 | Can this be a free Government if partial distinctions are tolerated or maintained?" |
| 22240 | Commercially speaking, what were the assets of this race? |
| 22240 | Could anybody, amid the inspiration of these grounds and buildings, be discouraged about the future of the Negro? |
| 22240 | Did he complain of his lot? |
| 22240 | Did they do it? |
| 22240 | Did they intend to do it? |
| 22240 | Did you feed them when they were hungry; did you give them to drink when they were thirsty; did you visit and comfort them when they were in prison? |
| 22240 | Do they want a Negro who shall not be permitted to participate in the government which he must support with his treasure and defend with his blood? |
| 22240 | Do they want a Negro who will avoid friction between the races by consenting to occupy the place to which white men may choose to assign him? |
| 22240 | Do they want a voteless Negro in a Republic founded upon universal suffrage? |
| 22240 | Do you mean, citizens, to mock me, by asking me to speak today? |
| 22240 | Do you remember the story of Robert Ferguson who, better known as the"laureate of Edinburgh,"was the poet of Scottish city- life? |
| 22240 | Does he not instinctively long for the freedom of the forest and the plain? |
| 22240 | Does our white brother look with disdain upon us because we are not cleanly and neat? |
| 22240 | Does the gentleman from Kentucky say that my good is promoted when I am excluded from the public inn? |
| 22240 | For who is there so cold that a nation''s sympathy could not warm him? |
| 22240 | Forced to occupy a filthy smoking- car both night and day, with drunkards, gamblers, and criminals; and for what? |
| 22240 | Forget it? |
| 22240 | Had President Lincoln not desired the freedom of the slaves would he have written this last sentence? |
| 22240 | Had it anything to its credit in the balance- sheets of human progress, save the evils accruing from a long period of bondage? |
| 22240 | Has he been altogether free from prejudices engendered by long training in that school of politics that well- nigh destroyed this Government? |
| 22240 | Has he justified Emancipation? |
| 22240 | Has the evolution of emancipation been pushed with proper persistence and earnestness? |
| 22240 | Has the future nothing in store for America''s greatest factors in her industrial and commercial development? |
| 22240 | Has the honorable gentleman from Kentucky considered well the claim he now advances? |
| 22240 | Hast thou seen it in its lonely grandeur on a moonlight night? |
| 22240 | Have these dismal prophecies been fulfilled? |
| 22240 | Have we not lived to see that wish realized, and will it not be further realized in the future? |
| 22240 | Have you or your counsel anything to say why the sentence of the law should not be pronounced upon you? |
| 22240 | He fought when a slave, some would say, from compulsion, but would he fight for love of the flag of the Union? |
| 22240 | He is the salt of the earth, and if the salt lose its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? |
| 22240 | His age? |
| 22240 | His birthplace? |
| 22240 | His name? |
| 22240 | How can we sing the Lord''s song in a strange land? |
| 22240 | How far has this work been progressing along the line of basal principles that we find embodied in all these authoritative extracts? |
| 22240 | How many men who now hold seats in the United States Senate or the House of Representatives do we even know the names of? |
| 22240 | How? |
| 22240 | I am weak and humble, I have not the opportunity?" |
| 22240 | I appeal to your sensitive feelings as husbands, fathers, and brothers, is this just? |
| 22240 | I saw him along the train side at Spartanburg, S. C. A beggar? |
| 22240 | IS THE GAME WORTH THE CANDLE? |
| 22240 | If such are the deeds of mercy wrought by angels, then tell me what works of iniquity there remain for devils to do? |
| 22240 | If the light within the racial world be darkness, how great is that darkness? |
| 22240 | If there is any young men in the audience who is spending more than he is making let him ask himself the question, Is the game worth the candle? |
| 22240 | If we fail here, with traditions and history such as are ours behind us, can we succeed elsewhere? |
| 22240 | Is he living now? |
| 22240 | Is it because he was once a slave, and a slave must forever wear the marks of degradation? |
| 22240 | Is it merely enacting that one man shall so use his own as not to injure anothers? |
| 22240 | Is it right to lay heavy burdens on other men''s shoulders which you would not remove with one of your fingers? |
| 22240 | Is it that slavery is not divine; that God did not establish it; that our doctors of divinity are mistaken? |
| 22240 | Is it then truly noble to fight in order not to be a slave? |
| 22240 | Is our poverty the barrier that divides us from a closer fellowship with our white brethren? |
| 22240 | Is slavery, as it is seen in its origin, continuance, and end the best possible condition for thee? |
| 22240 | Is that a question for republicans? |
| 22240 | Is the Negro in any measure deserving of the help for which I plead? |
| 22240 | Is the colored race to be assimilated to an unwholesome trade or to combustible materials, to be interdicted, to be shut up within prescribed limits? |
| 22240 | Is the game worth the candle? |
| 22240 | Is the health or safety of the community promoted? |
| 22240 | Is there no effacement for the stigma of slavery-- no erasement for this blot of shame? |
| 22240 | Is there one? |
| 22240 | Is this horrible doctrine? |
| 22240 | It is often asked when and where will the demands of the reformers of this and coming ages end? |
| 22240 | It was the thought of the responsibility that decided me to speak on the subject,"Is the Game Worth the Candle? |
| 22240 | Kept in a constant condition of suspense and dread by the peculiar methods of conducting canvasses and elections in that section, who can blame them? |
| 22240 | Let him lie down and die; what is the right And where is justice in a world like this? |
| 22240 | Let us turn from the past; what of the present? |
| 22240 | Life is essentially a dramatic thing, for as Carlyle says,"Is not every deathbed the fifth act of a tragedy?" |
| 22240 | Mr. Edwin D. Mead, in the_ New York Independent_ of January 21, 1909, says,"Has the country been faithful to Lincoln''s memory and task? |
| 22240 | Mr. Speaker, I ask the members of this House in all candor, is this right? |
| 22240 | Must I argue that a system thus marked with blood and stained with pollution is wrong? |
| 22240 | Must I argue the wrongfulness of slavery? |
| 22240 | Must I undertake to prove that the slave is a man? |
| 22240 | Never again while time lasts will the doubt arise as in 1861,"Will the Negro fight?" |
| 22240 | Nor do the sons disgrace their sires._ Who saved the Rough Riders from annihilation at Las Guasimas? |
| 22240 | Not worth the struggle when, at every call to arms in the nation''s history, the black man has nobly responded, whether slave or freeman? |
| 22240 | Not worth the struggle, when he won his way from spade to epaulet in the defense of the nation''s honor? |
| 22240 | Now, sir, what are civil rights? |
| 22240 | On the other hand, shall the Negro say:"Indebtedness ceased with our fathers; we are free to make alliance where we will"? |
| 22240 | On what branch of the subject do the people of this country need light? |
| 22240 | One day Croesus said to Solon, the philosopher,"Do you not think I am a happy man?" |
| 22240 | Or, to state the question more exactly, is not the denial of such privileges to me a denial to me of the equal protection of the laws? |
| 22240 | Our bepuzzled pedagogues are seriously reflecting over the query,_ Cui bono?_--Is it worth while? |
| 22240 | Perhaps some mother expects to hear great things of her boy, some father''s hopes are centered in him, but what does that matter? |
| 22240 | SHOULD COLORED MEN BE SUBJECT TO THE PAINS AND PENALTIES OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW? |
| 22240 | Seeing his seamed and wrinkled face, she asked,"Doctor, did God make you?" |
| 22240 | Shall Liberia live? |
| 22240 | Shall the party of freedom declare at an end its duty toward the party it made men and citizens? |
| 22240 | Shall we fold our hands when we read of such heroes and say,"Ah, yes, he could be great, but I? |
| 22240 | Shall we in the day of freedom be less loyal to our country and true to ourselves than were the friends who stood for us in our night of woe? |
| 22240 | She has been more or less doing her work as circumstances allowed and dictated, but now we ask of you"Watchman, what of the night?" |
| 22240 | That he is the rightful owner of his own body? |
| 22240 | The first thought to him is:"Lord what wilt Thou have me to do?" |
| 22240 | The great day of the nation''s judgment has come, and who shall be able to stand? |
| 22240 | The restoration and raising of home ideals must, then, come from social life among Negroes themselves; and does that social life need no leadership? |
| 22240 | Then, looking at her own sweet, rosy face in a glass opposite, she asked,"Did God make me, too?" |
| 22240 | Thy halls resound to the murmur of what message from the Divine? |
| 22240 | WHAT TO THE SLAVE IS THE FOURTH OF JULY? |
| 22240 | Was the game worth the candle? |
| 22240 | Was the game worth the candle? |
| 22240 | Was the game worth the candle? |
| 22240 | Was the game worth the candle? |
| 22240 | Watchman, what shall be the forecast? |
| 22240 | We have lulled ourselves to sleep with this fatalism, and what is the result? |
| 22240 | Were it not better if a bit more of the leaven of sturdy struggle were introduced into the life of the present- day youth? |
| 22240 | What are we to do, you say? |
| 22240 | What art thou to justify thyself to man? |
| 22240 | What can humanity offer as a reward to those whose bodies lie under cairns of ice save a barren recognition of their heroism? |
| 22240 | What can we do? |
| 22240 | What city pauses one hour to drop a pitying tear over these mangled corpses, or has forged against the perpetrator one thunderbolt of furious protest? |
| 22240 | What difference does it make? |
| 22240 | What has been the result? |
| 22240 | What has this modern romance in it for the man of to- day? |
| 22240 | What have I or those I represent to do with your national independence? |
| 22240 | What have their lives served, beyond that of examples of heroism and determination? |
| 22240 | What is public sentiment or public opinion? |
| 22240 | What is slavery? |
| 22240 | What is the remedy? |
| 22240 | What is this but the acknowledgment that the slave is a moral, intellectual, and responsible being? |
| 22240 | What kind of Negroes do the American people want? |
| 22240 | What kind of a Negro do the American people want? |
| 22240 | What kind of an American does the Negro intend to be? |
| 22240 | What lesson has this occasion for the future? |
| 22240 | What message has this life for us to- day, we the commonplace, the mediocre, the unknown to fame and fortune? |
| 22240 | What mission hast thou to excuse thy being? |
| 22240 | What of hope, what of encouragement, what of caution? |
| 22240 | What of the Negro himself? |
| 22240 | What of the race''s mental condition at the time of its civic birth? |
| 22240 | What point in the anti- slavery creed would you have me argue? |
| 22240 | What principle of uplift hast thou to send forth? |
| 22240 | What road of profit? |
| 22240 | What shall be the mutual relations in the future? |
| 22240 | What tidings does the morning bring, if any? |
| 22240 | What to the American slave is your Fourth of July? |
| 22240 | What was our status in the business pursuits and gainful occupations at that time? |
| 22240 | What was the condition of the race when the Emancipation Proclamation was first issued, a half century ago? |
| 22240 | What was the moral status of the race at that period? |
| 22240 | What, then, is this training of the army for which the officer must possess this most accurate, thorough, and scientific education? |
| 22240 | What, then, remains to be argued? |
| 22240 | What, we ask, is thy mission? |
| 22240 | When we do, will our white brothers accord that respect which is the due of intelligence and culture? |
| 22240 | Whence, now, is the money coming for this educational system? |
| 22240 | Where is the public opinion that has scorched with red- hot indignation the cowardly murderers of Vicksburg and Louisiana? |
| 22240 | Where is there a young man who would consent to lead an aimless life when there are such glorious opportunities before him? |
| 22240 | Who can reason on such a proposition? |
| 22240 | Who dares challenge the assertion? |
| 22240 | Who dares dispute the claim? |
| 22240 | Who denies it? |
| 22240 | Who so obdurate and dead to the claims of gratitude, that would not thankfully acknowledge such priceless benefits? |
| 22240 | Who stormed with unparalleled bravery the heights at El Caney and swept gallantly foremost in that magnificent charge up San Juan hill? |
| 22240 | Who was more humble than the poor boy spinning in the cotton- mill; who was less constrained by Fortune''s frowns than the humble missionary? |
| 22240 | Whose blood helped to render the testament of liberty valid? |
| 22240 | Why distress us with these dead and departed cruelties?" |
| 22240 | Why do they weep? |
| 22240 | Why is it that thousands of colored men and women go over to the other side,"pass"as we say? |
| 22240 | Why is it that we see so many pathetic attempts to be white? |
| 22240 | Why should there be prejudice and dislike on the part of the white man to his colored brother? |
| 22240 | Why standeth thou there absorbing space? |
| 22240 | Why then, should they not establish its validity before the proper officers? |
| 22240 | Why? |
| 22240 | Will improvement along these lines help us to gain the esteem and respectful consideration of our white brothers? |
| 22240 | Will our white brother refuse us his cordial fellowship because of our ignorance? |
| 22240 | Will the young men who are to be the leaders, spend their hours in riotous living? |
| 22240 | Will they be disloyal to self, to home, to country, and to God? |
| 22240 | Will they be false to duty? |
| 22240 | Will they shirk? |
| 22240 | Wilt thou bear a part of it, or remove a little of its weight with one of thy fingers? |
| 22240 | Wilt thou bear that burden on thy shoulders, which thou wouldest lay upon thy fellow- man? |
| 22240 | Would wealth cure all the evils of our condition, and give us the cordial recognition we ask from them? |
| 22240 | Would you have me argue that man is entitled to liberty? |
| 22240 | You are white as the thought of the angel, Your heart is steeped in the sun; Did you grow in the golden city, My pure and radiant one? |
| 22240 | You ask his color? |
| 22240 | You may be constrained to ask,"What shall we do?" |
| 22240 | You who have affectionate companions, attractive daughters, and loving sisters, is this just? |
| 22240 | Young men, what is the basis of your life and what is its goal? |
| 22240 | but to be able to say,"Through me, generations may be helped?" |
| 15391 | But,the gentleman adds,"what shall we do, if we do not admit the people of Louisiana into our Union? |
| 15391 | How, then,they would ask,"do you propose to defend us? |
| 15391 | That is true; but would the judge admit our plea? |
| 15391 | That may all be so; but if the tribunal should not happen to be of that opinion, shall we swing for it? 15391 *** Against whom are these charges brought? 15391 *** I must now beg to ask, sir, whence is this supposed right of the States derived? 15391 *** Who, then, Mr. President, are the true friends of the Union? 15391 After rejecting the treaty, what is to be the next step? 15391 Against whom? 15391 And about what? 15391 And by whom are they made? 15391 And does he hope for an easy victory over a more feeble adversary? 15391 And is there not here an express authority? |
| 15391 | And is this, in the judgment even of my opposers, to execute, to preserve the constitution and the public order? |
| 15391 | And now, sir, I repeat, how is it that a State legislature acquires any power to interfere? |
| 15391 | And now, sir, how does the honorable member propose to deal with this case? |
| 15391 | And what have we to oppose to them? |
| 15391 | And who are its enemies? |
| 15391 | And will you plunge yourselves in war, because you have passed a foolish and ruinous law, and are ashamed to repeal it? |
| 15391 | And would it be possible for government to have credit, without having the power of raising money? |
| 15391 | Are dark visions of broken hopes, and honors lost forever, still floating before his heated imagination? |
| 15391 | Are despots alone to be reproached for unfeeling indifference to the tears and blood of their subjects? |
| 15391 | Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? |
| 15391 | Are the three branches of this government owners of this farm, called the United States? |
| 15391 | Are the very clods where we tread entitled to this ardent preference because they are greener? |
| 15391 | Are these States both right? |
| 15391 | Are we in that condition still? |
| 15391 | Are we not thrown back again precisely upon the old Confederation? |
| 15391 | Are we respected, or despised abroad? |
| 15391 | Are we sufficient for the comprehension of the sublimest spiritual truths, and unequal to material and temporal ones? |
| 15391 | Are we yet at the mercy of State discretion and State construction? |
| 15391 | As his minister said to the king of Epirus,"May we not as well take our bottle of wine before as after this exploit?" |
| 15391 | As our imports will be necessary for the expenses of government, and other common exigencies, how are we to carry on the means of defence? |
| 15391 | But I will ask those gentlemen, by whom is government to be dissolved? |
| 15391 | But am I reduced to the necesity of proving this point? |
| 15391 | But are these cases parallel? |
| 15391 | But by whom have they been suppressed, when they ran counter to the interests of my country? |
| 15391 | But can we imagine that the Senators will ever be so insensible of their own advantage, as to sacrifice the genuine interest of their constituents? |
| 15391 | But how interpose, and what does this declaration purport? |
| 15391 | But how was this law adopted? |
| 15391 | But if this be really their situation, why has every State acknowledged the contrary? |
| 15391 | But is it meant to insinuate that it is the final intention of those who pretend to wish only for a postponement, to involve this country in a war? |
| 15391 | But is war the true remedy? |
| 15391 | But suppose the fact is certain; is it not to be presumed that they will express the true meaning of the Constitution and the laws? |
| 15391 | But what purpose can arguments of this kind answer? |
| 15391 | But what sort of liberty? |
| 15391 | But when shall we be stronger? |
| 15391 | But who shall decide this question of interference? |
| 15391 | But, sir, if in the course of forty years, there have been undue effervescences of party in New England, has the same thing happened nowhere else? |
| 15391 | But, sir, what is this danger, and what are the grounds of it? |
| 15391 | By the usual means provided from year to year? |
| 15391 | By whom, then, I again ask, is the government to be dissolved? |
| 15391 | By whom, would you listen to them, are they most keenly felt? |
| 15391 | By whom? |
| 15391 | Can any man venture to affirm that the people did intend such a comprehension as you now, by construction, give it? |
| 15391 | Can gentlemen assign any other possible motives for it? |
| 15391 | Can he then be trusted with the government of others? |
| 15391 | Can she authorize others to do it? |
| 15391 | Can the State governments become insignificant while they have the power of raising money independently and without control? |
| 15391 | Can the courts of the United States take notice of the indulgence of a State to commit treason? |
| 15391 | Can the general government withstand such an united opposition? |
| 15391 | Can they take it upon them to say, that an Indian peace, under these circumstances, will prove firm? |
| 15391 | Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, What should be the reward of such sacrifices? |
| 15391 | Could he look with affection and veneration to such a country as his parent? |
| 15391 | Dare they not avow their plan of conduct, or do they wait till our progress toward confusion shall guide them in forming it? |
| 15391 | Did the protection we received annul our rights as men, and lay us under an obligation of being miserable? |
| 15391 | Dismissing, therefore, the justice of our cause as incontestable, the only question is, What is best for us to pursue in our present circumstances? |
| 15391 | Do they mean, that the first event which shall put an end to their own authority shall be the last act of government? |
| 15391 | Do we hear of indignity or outrage in any quarter? |
| 15391 | Does not this approach absurdity? |
| 15391 | For, what rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a state renounces the principles that constitute their security? |
| 15391 | From whom do they derive their authority? |
| 15391 | Had she a single eye to our advantage? |
| 15391 | Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? |
| 15391 | Has not France been obliged, on great occasions, to recur to unusual means, in order to raise funds? |
| 15391 | Has our blood been expended in vain? |
| 15391 | Has the gentleman discovered in former controversies with the gentleman from Missouri, that he is overmatched by that senator? |
| 15391 | Has the gentleman''s distempered fancy been disturbed by gloomy forebodings of"new alliances to be formed,"at which he hinted? |
| 15391 | Has the ghost of the murdered coalition come back, like the ghost of Banquo, to"sear the eyeballs"of the gentleman, and will not down at his bidding? |
| 15391 | Have not experience and practice actually manifested this theoretical inconvenience to be extremely impolitic? |
| 15391 | Have not those gentlemen who have been honored with seats in Congress often signalized themselves by their attachment to their States? |
| 15391 | Have the principles on which you ground the reproach upon cabinets and kings no practical influence, no binding force? |
| 15391 | Have we any thing new to offer on the subject? |
| 15391 | Have we not this instant heard it urged against our envoy, that he was not ardent enough in his hatred of Great Britain? |
| 15391 | Have we peace, or war, with foreign nations? |
| 15391 | Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? |
| 15391 | His construction gets us into it; how does he propose to get us out? |
| 15391 | How do you propose to defend us?" |
| 15391 | How does he relieve us from this difficulty upon any principle of his? |
| 15391 | How has it accomplished this great and essential end? |
| 15391 | How is it possible a war could be supported without money or credit? |
| 15391 | How is this disorder in the machine to be rectified? |
| 15391 | I ask him if the power is not found there, clearly and visibly found there? |
| 15391 | I resort especially to the convictions of the Western gentlemen, whether supposing no posts and no treaty, the settlers will remain in security? |
| 15391 | If John Fries had produced an act of Pennsylvania, annulling the law of Congress, would it have helped his case? |
| 15391 | If all was granted, would not a treaty of amity with Great Britain still be obnoxious? |
| 15391 | If its purpose be not to force us to submission? |
| 15391 | If not, which is in the wrong? |
| 15391 | If there be no power to settle such questions, independent of either of the States, is not the whole Union a rope of sand? |
| 15391 | If this country should be engaged in war,( and I conceive we ought to provide for the possibility of such a case,) how would it be carried on? |
| 15391 | If we reject the treaty, will our peace be as safe as if we executed it with good faith? |
| 15391 | If, on the contrary, we consent to carry the treaty into effect, under the present circumstances, what will be our situation in future? |
| 15391 | In what part of the Constitution is it declared to be adopted? |
| 15391 | Is he bound to consider them both right? |
| 15391 | Is it a narrow affection for the spot where a man was born? |
| 15391 | Is it consistent with reason, that such a government can promote the happiness of any people? |
| 15391 | Is it going off the ground of matter of fact to say, the rejection of the appropriation proceeds upon the doctrine of a civil war of the departments? |
| 15391 | Is it not self- evident, that a trifling minority ought not to bind the majority? |
| 15391 | Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? |
| 15391 | Is it the creature of the State Legislatures, or the creature of the people? |
| 15391 | Is it the law of England, at any particular period, which is adopted? |
| 15391 | Is it to walk about this earth, to breathe this air, to partake the common blessings of God''s providence? |
| 15391 | Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? |
| 15391 | Is not this the plain result? |
| 15391 | Is the power claimed proper for Congress to possess? |
| 15391 | Is the sovereignty in the several States, or in the American people in the aggregate? |
| 15391 | Is there any language of reproach pungent enough to express your commentary on the fact? |
| 15391 | Is there any thing in the prospect of the interior state of the country to encourage us to aggravate the dangers of a war? |
| 15391 | Is this a chimera? |
| 15391 | Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? |
| 15391 | It is now difficult to collect the taxes from them: how much would that difficulty be enhanced, were you to depend solely on their generosity? |
| 15391 | Let us inquire also against whom she has protected us? |
| 15391 | Mr. President, why is this? |
| 15391 | Mr. Speaker, what is this liberty of which so much is said? |
| 15391 | Must I not have been absolutely malicious, if I could have thrust myself forward, to destroy sensations thus pleasing? |
| 15391 | Now that the Constitution was ratified, what tie was there to hold these two to any united action for the future? |
| 15391 | Now, sir, again, I ask the gentleman, What is to be done? |
| 15391 | Now, sir, how have these different arguments been met? |
| 15391 | Or can it be concealed that, beyond its fair and acknowledged intent, such a compact has no moral force? |
| 15391 | Or if his life should not be invaded, what would its enjoyments be in a country odious in the eyes of strangers and dishonored in his own? |
| 15391 | Or, have we found angels in the form of kings, to govern him? |
| 15391 | Shall we complain of our nature-- shall we say that man ought to have been made otherwise? |
| 15391 | Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? |
| 15391 | Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? |
| 15391 | Shall we try argument? |
| 15391 | Sir, can it be pretended that the patriots of that day would for one moment have listened to it? |
| 15391 | Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom? |
| 15391 | Sir, what is this power we propose now to usurp? |
| 15391 | Suppose it ours, are we any nearer to our point? |
| 15391 | Suppose this were so; how should he therefore abuse New England? |
| 15391 | That would be very imposing; but what then? |
| 15391 | The great question is, Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the laws? |
| 15391 | The reply would be, I think, not impertinent:"Who made you a judge over another''s servants? |
| 15391 | The undecided point is, shall we break our faith? |
| 15391 | Then they deemed war nearly inevitable, and would not this adjustment have been considered, at that day, as a happy escape from the calamity? |
| 15391 | To whom lies the last appeal? |
| 15391 | Was it adopted by the courts? |
| 15391 | Was it by the Constitution? |
| 15391 | Was it not much better and kinder, both to sleep upon them myself, and to allow others also the pleasure of sleeping upon them? |
| 15391 | Were these colonies backward in giving assistance to Great Britain, when they were called upon in 1739, to aid the expedition against Carthagena? |
| 15391 | What can be more immoral than war; or plundering on the high seas, legalized under the name of privateering? |
| 15391 | What do they imply? |
| 15391 | What has brought on other nations those immense debts, under the pressure of which many of them labor? |
| 15391 | What is it that gentlemen wish? |
| 15391 | What is more important than the administration of justice and the execution of the civil and criminal laws? |
| 15391 | What is patriotism? |
| 15391 | What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure, or to use the phraseology of the times, during feeling? |
| 15391 | What is the situation of the slave- holding States? |
| 15391 | What is this but to have the curse of Canaan with a witness on us: to be the servant of servants, the most despicable of God''s creation? |
| 15391 | What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? |
| 15391 | What then are we called upon to do? |
| 15391 | What would be the situation of your seaports, and their seafaring inhabitants? |
| 15391 | What would they have? |
| 15391 | What would you say, or rather what would you not say? |
| 15391 | Where do they find the power to interfere with the laws of the Union? |
| 15391 | Wherefore have laws been made to authorize a change, and wherefore are we now assembled here? |
| 15391 | While it exists its movements must stop, and when we talk of a remedy, is that any other than the formidable one of a revolutionary one of the people? |
| 15391 | Who among you, my countrymen, that is a father, would claim authority to make your child a slave because you had nourished him in his infancy? |
| 15391 | Who are the parties to it? |
| 15391 | Who can be so cruel as to refuse him that favor? |
| 15391 | Who ever heard of the United State of New York, of Massachusetts, or of Virginia? |
| 15391 | Who ever heard the term federal or union applied to the aggregation of individuals into one community? |
| 15391 | Who must suffer by it? |
| 15391 | Who shall interpret their will, where it may be supposed they have left it doubtful? |
| 15391 | Who will accuse me of wandering out of the subject? |
| 15391 | Who will profit by it? |
| 15391 | Who will say that I exaggerate the tendencies of our measures? |
| 15391 | Who, then, shall construe this grant of the people? |
| 15391 | Whose agent is it? |
| 15391 | Why all this fear of revenue? |
| 15391 | Why authorize him to use military force to arrest the civil process of the State? |
| 15391 | Why do they complain, that the West Indies are not laid open? |
| 15391 | Why do they lament, that any restriction is stipulated on the commerce of the East Indies? |
| 15391 | Why do they pretend, that if they reject this, and insist upon more, more will be accomplished? |
| 15391 | Why has our general government been so shamefully disgraced, and our Constitution violated? |
| 15391 | Why have complaints of national and individual distresses been echoed and re- echoed throughout the continent? |
| 15391 | Why stand we here idle? |
| 15391 | Why then are they silent? |
| 15391 | Why was he singled out? |
| 15391 | Why were deputies from all the States sent to the general convention? |
| 15391 | Why, then, confer on the President the extensive and unlimited powers provided in this bill? |
| 15391 | Why, then, do they not leave this controversy to that tribunal? |
| 15391 | Will any one answer by a sneer, that all this is idle preaching? |
| 15391 | Will any one deny, that we are bound, and I would hope to good purpose, by the most solemn sanctions of duty for the vote we give? |
| 15391 | Will he not feel some dread that a change of system will reverse the scene? |
| 15391 | Will it be the next week, or the next year? |
| 15391 | Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? |
| 15391 | Will it be whispered that the treaty has made me a new champion for the protection of the frontiers? |
| 15391 | Will not the same local interests, and other causes, militate against a compliance? |
| 15391 | Will the people suffer themselves to be stripped of their privileges? |
| 15391 | Will the tendency to Indian hostilities be contested by any one? |
| 15391 | Will they suffer their Legislatures to be reduced to a shadow and a name? |
| 15391 | Will you call upon her to leave your ports and harbors untouched only just till you can return from Canada, to defend them? |
| 15391 | Will you refuse to do yours?" |
| 15391 | Will you seek for the deep foundations of her power in the frozen deserts of Labrador? |
| 15391 | With whom do they repose this ultimate right of deciding on the powers of the government? |
| 15391 | Would any thing, with such a principle in it, or rather with such a destitution of all principle be fit to be called a government? |
| 15391 | Would he submit that the representatives of this State should carry on their deliberations under the control of any one member of the Union? |
| 15391 | Would it have been quite amiable in me, Sir, to interrupt this excellent good feeling? |
| 15391 | Would not foreign influence be exerted with facility over a small minority? |
| 15391 | Would not her public credit have been ruined, if it was known that her power to raise money was limited? |
| 15391 | Would not the shock of that evil produce another, and shake down the feeble and then unbraced structure of our government? |
| 15391 | Would twenty shillings have ruined his fortune? |
| 15391 | You have taken Quebec-- have you conquered England? |
| 15391 | a union of States, as distinct from that of individuals? |
| 15391 | of American citizens impressed into foreign service? |
| 15391 | of merchants robbed in foreign ports? |
| 15391 | of the national flag insulted anywhere? |
| 15391 | of vessels searched on the high seas? |
| 15391 | or, rather, which has the best right to decide? |
| 15391 | shall we then form a constitution to cherish and strengthen these prejudices? |
| 14721 | Might it not be well for me,queried the officer,"to set this matter right in a letter to some paper, stating the facts as they actually transpired?" |
| 14721 | Must a government, of necessity, be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence? |
| 14721 | That is so,one of them says; I wonder if he is a Kentuckian? |
| 14721 | ... Are you strong enough-- are you strong enough, even with my help-- to set your foot upon the necks of Sumner, Heintzelman, and Keyes, all at once? |
| 14721 | And how much would it avail you if you could, by the use of John Brown, Helper''s book, and the like, break up the Republican organization? |
| 14721 | And is it not needed whenever taking it helps us or hurts the enemy? |
| 14721 | And is there any doubt that we must all lay aside our prejudices and march, shoulder to shoulder, in the great army of Freedom? |
| 14721 | And now I ask why he could not have left that compromise alone? |
| 14721 | And now why will you ask us to deny the humanity of the slave, and estimate him as only the equal of the hog? |
| 14721 | And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept? |
| 14721 | And suppose they could be induced by a proclamation of freedom from me to throw themselves upon us, what should we do with them? |
| 14721 | And what shall we have in lieu of it? |
| 14721 | And when will we cease to have quarrels over it? |
| 14721 | And why the hasty after- indorsement of the decision by the President and others? |
| 14721 | Another form of his question is,"Why ca n''t we let it stand as our fathers placed it?" |
| 14721 | Are not the tendencies plain? |
| 14721 | Are we in a healthful political state? |
| 14721 | Are you for it? |
| 14721 | Are you for it? |
| 14721 | Are you going to split the Ohio down through, and push your half off a piece? |
| 14721 | As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now? |
| 14721 | At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? |
| 14721 | At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? |
| 14721 | But can this question of slavery be considered as among these varieties in the institutions of the country? |
| 14721 | But can we, for that reason, run ahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he himself has given no intimation? |
| 14721 | But does not this question make a disturbance outside of political circles? |
| 14721 | But has it been so with this element of slavery? |
| 14721 | But how can we attain it? |
| 14721 | But how if she votes herself a slave State unfairly; that is, by the very means for which you say you would hang men? |
| 14721 | But if it is a moral and political wrong, as all Christendom considers it to be, how can he answer to God for this attempt to spread and fortify it? |
| 14721 | But if it is, how can he resist it? |
| 14721 | But if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self- government to say that he, too, shall not govern himself? |
| 14721 | But let me ask Judge Douglas how he is going to get the people to do that? |
| 14721 | But what could I do? |
| 14721 | But where will you be placed if you reindorse Judge Douglas? |
| 14721 | But which system shall be adopted? |
| 14721 | But who resists it? |
| 14721 | By the way, in what consists the special sacredness of a State? |
| 14721 | By what means shall we fortify against it? |
| 14721 | Can Judge Douglas find anybody on earth that said that anybody else should form a constitution for a people?... |
| 14721 | Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical relation with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State government? |
| 14721 | Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? |
| 14721 | Can any man doubt that, even in spite of the people''s will, slavery will triumph through violence, unless that will be made manifest and enforced? |
| 14721 | Can he possibly show that it is a less sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest? |
| 14721 | Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? |
| 14721 | Can we afford to sin any more deeply against human liberty? |
| 14721 | Can we as Christian men, and strong and free ourselves, wield the sledge or hold the iron which is to manacle anew an already oppressed race? |
| 14721 | Can we safely base our action upon any such vague inference? |
| 14721 | Can you there, any more than here, raise corn and wheat and oats without work? |
| 14721 | Can you, if you swear to support the Constitution and believe that the Constitution establishes a right, clear your oath without giving it support? |
| 14721 | Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you, who repudiate it? |
| 14721 | Could he have done it without them? |
| 14721 | Did we brave all then to falter now?--now, when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered, and belligerent? |
| 14721 | Did we notify them of this sage view of ours when we borrowed their money? |
| 14721 | Did you ever, my friends, seriously reflect upon the speed with which we are tending downward? |
| 14721 | Do not the signs of the times point plainly the way in which we are going? |
| 14721 | Do the commanders of corps disobey your orders in anything? |
| 14721 | Do you accept the challenge? |
| 14721 | Do you not constantly argue that this is not the right place to oppose it? |
| 14721 | Do you not violate and disregard your oath? |
| 14721 | Do you think differently? |
| 14721 | Does Douglas believe an effort to revive that trade is approaching? |
| 14721 | Does he not virtually shift his ground and say that it is not a question for the court, but for the people? |
| 14721 | Does he really think so? |
| 14721 | Does it appear otherwise to you? |
| 14721 | Does it not enter into the churches and rend them asunder? |
| 14721 | Does the Judge claim that he is working on the plan of the founders of the government? |
| 14721 | Does the Judge say it can stand? |
| 14721 | Dr. Ross has a slave named Sambo, and the question is,"Is it the will of God that Sambo shall remain a slave, or be set free?" |
| 14721 | For instance, do you suppose that I should ever have got into notice if I had waited to be hunted up and pushed forward by older men? |
| 14721 | Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings? |
| 14721 | Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals? |
| 14721 | Has anything ever threatened the existence of this Union save and except this very institution of slavery? |
| 14721 | Has not the Supreme Court decided that question? |
| 14721 | Has she formed a constitution that she is likely to come in under? |
| 14721 | Has there ever been a time when anybody said that any other than the people of a Territory itself should form a constitution? |
| 14721 | Have these very matters ever produced any difficulty amongst us? |
| 14721 | Have they produced any differences? |
| 14721 | Have we ever had any peace on this slavery question? |
| 14721 | Have we no tendency to the latter condition? |
| 14721 | Have we not always had quarrels and difficulties over it? |
| 14721 | He says,"Why ca n''t this Union endure permanently half slave and half free?" |
| 14721 | How are we ever to have peace upon it? |
| 14721 | How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes be in favour of degrading classes of white people? |
| 14721 | How can he oppose the advances of slavery? |
| 14721 | How can we best do it? |
| 14721 | How can we feed and care for such a multitude? |
| 14721 | How comes it that a man of first- rate powers was deficient in qualities appertaining to his own profession which men less remarkable have possessed? |
| 14721 | How comes this vast amount of property to be running about without owners? |
| 14721 | How could I be? |
| 14721 | How great a majority, do you think, would have been given had Kansas also been secured for slavery? |
| 14721 | How is it over? |
| 14721 | How is this? |
| 14721 | How many times have we had danger from this question? |
| 14721 | How would you like that? |
| 14721 | How, then, shall we perform it? |
| 14721 | I appeal to you whether he did not say it was a question for the Supreme Court? |
| 14721 | I ask if somebody does not remember that a national bank was declared to be constitutional? |
| 14721 | I ask you if it is not a false philosophy? |
| 14721 | I repeat the question, is not Congress itself bound to give legislative support to any right that is established in the United States Constitution? |
| 14721 | I repeat, therefore, the question, Is it not plain in what direction we are tending? |
| 14721 | I submit to you now, whether the new state of the case has not induced the Judge to sheer away from his original ground? |
| 14721 | I want to know, now, when that thing takes place, what do you mean to do? |
| 14721 | If one man says it does not mean a negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man? |
| 14721 | If this is true, how do you propose to improve the condition of things by enlarging slavery,--by spreading it out and making it bigger? |
| 14721 | If you ca n''t now live with the land, how will you then live without it? |
| 14721 | If you did not feel that it was wrong, why did you join in providing that men should be hung for it? |
| 14721 | In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? |
| 14721 | In that arrest all can give aid that will; and who shall be excused that can and will not? |
| 14721 | In the first place, what is necessary to make the institution national? |
| 14721 | In what way can that compromise be used to keep Lee''s army out of Pennsylvania? |
| 14721 | Is Kansas in the Union? |
| 14721 | Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? |
| 14721 | Is it not to give such constitutional helps to the rights established by that Constitution as may be practically needed? |
| 14721 | Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before? |
| 14721 | Is it quite certain that this betters their condition? |
| 14721 | Is it the right of the people to have slavery or not to have it, as they see fit, in the Territories? |
| 14721 | Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied? |
| 14721 | Is not that a falsehood? |
| 14721 | Is not the slavery agitation still an open question in that Territory?... |
| 14721 | Is that the truth? |
| 14721 | Is the land any richer? |
| 14721 | Is the one right any better than the other? |
| 14721 | Is there a single court or magistrate or individual that would be influenced by it there? |
| 14721 | Is there any better or equal hope in the world? |
| 14721 | Is there any mistaking it? |
| 14721 | Is there such perfect identity of interests among the States to compose a new Union, as to produce harmony only, and prevent renewed secession? |
| 14721 | Is there, has there ever been, any question that, by the law of war, property, both of enemies and friends, may be taken when needed? |
| 14721 | Is there-- can there be-- any doubt about this thing? |
| 14721 | Is this quite just to the creditors? |
| 14721 | Is this the work of politicians? |
| 14721 | It forces us to ask:"Is there, in all republics, this inherent and fatal weakness?" |
| 14721 | It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? |
| 14721 | It is colour, then; the lighter having the right to enslave the darker? |
| 14721 | It is enough for my purpose to ask, whenever a Republican said anything against it? |
| 14721 | Just before reaching the door, Mr. Lincoln came out, and meeting his friend said good- humouredly,"Are you not ahead of time?" |
| 14721 | Let me ask you why many of us, who are opposed to slavery upon principle, give our acquiescence to a fugitive- slave law? |
| 14721 | May I ask those who have not differed with me, to join with me in this same spirit towards those who have? |
| 14721 | Must she still be admitted, or the Union dissolved? |
| 14721 | Not only so, but if you were to do so, how long would it take the courts to hold your votes unconstitutional and void? |
| 14721 | Not only so, but is there not another fact,--how came this Dred Scott decision to be made? |
| 14721 | Now, I wish you to mark, What has become of that squatter sovereignty? |
| 14721 | Now, can you or not be prevailed upon to pause and to consider whether this is quite just to us, or even to yourselves? |
| 14721 | Now, my friends, can this country be saved on that basis? |
| 14721 | Now, on what ground would a member of Congress who is opposed to slavery in the abstract, vote for a fugitive law, as I would deem it my duty to do? |
| 14721 | Now, then, tell me, if you please, what possible result of good would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as you desire? |
| 14721 | Now, what is Judge Douglas''s popular sovereignty? |
| 14721 | Now, who was it that did the work? |
| 14721 | Now, why is this? |
| 14721 | One party to a contract may violate it-- break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it? |
| 14721 | Or are you going to keep it right alongside of us outrageous fellows? |
| 14721 | Our political problem now is,"Can we as a nation continue together_ permanently-- for ever_--half slave, and half free?" |
| 14721 | Pray, will or may not the Know- nothings, if they should get in power, add the word"protestant,"making it read"_ all protestant white men_"? |
| 14721 | Shall fugitives from labour be surrendered by national or by State authority? |
| 14721 | Shall he now be arrested in his desolating career? |
| 14721 | Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant to step across the ocean and crush us at a blow? |
| 14721 | Should we not stand by our neighbours who seek to better their conditions in Kansas and Nebraska? |
| 14721 | The Judge does not seem to be attending to me just now, but I would like to know if it is his opinion that a house divided against itself can stand? |
| 14721 | The fact is substantially true; but does it prove the issue? |
| 14721 | The great question with them has been,"Will the negro fight for them?" |
| 14721 | The question is, will it be wiser to take it as it is and help to improve it, or to reject and disperse it? |
| 14721 | The question recurs, how shall we fortify against it? |
| 14721 | Then what is necessary for the nationalization of slavery? |
| 14721 | Then where is the place to oppose it? |
| 14721 | Think you these places would satisfy an Alexander, a Cæsar, or a Napoleon? |
| 14721 | To those, however, who really love the Union may I not speak? |
| 14721 | Was it possible to lose the nation and yet preserve the Constitution? |
| 14721 | We deny it; and what is your proof? |
| 14721 | What are the distinctive merits of these speeches and letters? |
| 14721 | What are the uses of decisions of courts? |
| 14721 | What can authorize him to draw any such inference? |
| 14721 | What can you do in Missouri better than here? |
| 14721 | What could I do? |
| 14721 | What disturbed the Unitarian Church in this very city two years ago? |
| 14721 | What divided the great Methodist Church into two parts, North and South? |
| 14721 | What do these terms mean? |
| 14721 | What do those terms mean when used now? |
| 14721 | What do you understand by supporting the Constitution of a State or of the United States? |
| 14721 | What for? |
| 14721 | What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? |
| 14721 | What has become of it? |
| 14721 | What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of slavery? |
| 14721 | What has jarred and shaken the great American Tract Society recently,--not yet splitting it, but sure to divide it in the end? |
| 14721 | What has now become of all his tirade against"resistance to the Supreme Court"? |
| 14721 | What has raised this constant disturbance in every Presbyterian General Assembly that meets? |
| 14721 | What induced the Southampton insurrection, twenty- eight years ago, in which at least three times as many lives were lost as at Harper''s Ferry? |
| 14721 | What is a great man? |
| 14721 | What is conservatism? |
| 14721 | What is fairly implied by the term Judge Douglas has used,"resistance to the decision"? |
| 14721 | What is it that we hold most dear amongst us? |
| 14721 | What is it? |
| 14721 | What is popular sovereignty? |
| 14721 | What is popular sovereignty? |
| 14721 | What is that something? |
| 14721 | What is there in the language of that speech which expresses such purpose or bears such construction? |
| 14721 | What is_ sovereignty_ in the political sense of the term? |
| 14721 | What mysterious right to play tyrant is conferred on a district of country, with its people, by merely calling it a State? |
| 14721 | What name can I, in common decency, give to this wicked transaction? |
| 14721 | What next? |
| 14721 | What of that? |
| 14721 | What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity? |
| 14721 | What other thing that you consider a wrong do you deal with as you deal with that? |
| 14721 | What then is_ coercion_? |
| 14721 | What then? |
| 14721 | What was it placed there for? |
| 14721 | What was squatter sovereignty? |
| 14721 | What were they but a clear indication that the framers of the Constitution intended and expected the ultimate extinction of that institution? |
| 14721 | What would that other channel probably be? |
| 14721 | What would you do in my position? |
| 14721 | What, then, are their merits? |
| 14721 | What? |
| 14721 | When are we to have peace upon it if it is kept in the position it now occupies? |
| 14721 | When he had finished, Mr. Lincoln said to him,"Have you a blank card?" |
| 14721 | When he now says that the people may exclude slavery, does he not make it a question for the people? |
| 14721 | When is it likely to come to an end? |
| 14721 | When that is so, how much is left of this vast matter of squatter sovereignty, I should like to know? |
| 14721 | Which could have come the nearest to doing it without the other? |
| 14721 | Who defeated it? |
| 14721 | Who has, in spite of the decision, declared Dred Scott free, and resisted the authority of his master over him? |
| 14721 | Who is so bold as to do it? |
| 14721 | Who, then, shall come in at this day and claim that he invented it? |
| 14721 | Why ask us to do for nothing what two hundred millions of dollars could not induce you to do? |
| 14721 | Why ask us to do what you will not do yourselves? |
| 14721 | Why better after the retraction than before the issue? |
| 14721 | Why declare that within twenty years the African slave- trade, by which slaves are supplied, might be cut off by Congress? |
| 14721 | Why did you do this? |
| 14721 | Why do we hold ourselves under obligations to pass such a law, and abide by it when passed? |
| 14721 | Why even a Senator''s individual opinion withheld till after the presidential election? |
| 14721 | Why mention a State? |
| 14721 | Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? |
| 14721 | Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? |
| 14721 | Why the delay of a reargument? |
| 14721 | Why the incoming President''s advance exhortation in favour of the decision? |
| 14721 | Why the outgoing President''s felicitation on the indorsement? |
| 14721 | Why this deliberate pressing out of view the rights of men and the authority of the people? |
| 14721 | Why was the Court decision held up? |
| 14721 | Why was the amendment expressly declaring the right of the people voted down? |
| 14721 | Why were all these acts? |
| 14721 | Why will he not read and understand what I have said? |
| 14721 | Why will not the North say officially that it wishes for the restoration of the Union as it was?" |
| 14721 | Why, yes, Douglas did it? |
| 14721 | Why? |
| 14721 | Why? |
| 14721 | Will Dr. Ross be actuated by the perfect impartiality which has ever been considered most favourable to correct decisions? |
| 14721 | Will anybody there, any more than here, do your work for you? |
| 14721 | Will some one please tell me where is the_ positive_ law that establishes slavery in Kansas? |
| 14721 | Will the Judge pretend that Dred Scott was not held there without police regulations? |
| 14721 | Will they allow me, as an old Whig, to tell them good- humouredly that I think this is very silly? |
| 14721 | Will you hazard so desperate a step while there is any possibility that any portion of the ills you fly from have no real existence? |
| 14721 | Will you make war upon us and kill us all? |
| 14721 | Will you not embrace it? |
| 14721 | Will you not soon visit Washington again? |
| 14721 | Will you please tell me by what_ right_ slavery exists in Texas to- day? |
| 14721 | Will you, while the certain ills you fly to are greater than all the real ones you fly from-- will you risk the commission of so fearful a mistake? |
| 14721 | Would an exchange of_ names_ be an exchange of_ rights_ upon principle? |
| 14721 | Would he not at once have freed them? |
| 14721 | Would it be far wrong to define it"a political community without a political superior?" |
| 14721 | Would my word free the slaves, when I can not even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States? |
| 14721 | Would not this be the impression of every fair- minded man? |
| 14721 | Would the marching of an army into South Carolina, without the consent of her people and with hostile intent towards them, be invasion? |
| 14721 | Would the number of John Browns be lessened or enlarged by the operation? |
| 14721 | Would you deal lighter blows rather than heavier ones? |
| 14721 | Would you drop the war where it is, or would you prosecute it in future with elder- stalk squirts charged with rose- water? |
| 14721 | Would you give up the contest, leaving any available means untried? |
| 14721 | Would you have that question reduced to its former proportions? |
| 14721 | You can not escape this conclusion; and yet, are you willing to abide by it? |
| 14721 | You do not mean colour exactly? |
| 14721 | You mean the whites are intellectually the superiors of the blacks, and therefore have the right to enslave them? |
| 14721 | You produce your proof; and what is it? |
| 14721 | You say it is wrong; but do n''t you constantly object to anybody else saying so? |
| 14721 | [ A voice:"Then do you repudiate popular sovereignty?"] |
| 14721 | [ A voice:"Why do n''t they come out on it?"] |
| 14721 | _ Fifth._ In case of disaster, would not a retreat be more difficult by your plan than mine? |
| 14721 | _ First._ Does not your plan involve a greatly larger expenditure of time and money than mine? |
| 14721 | _ Fourth._ In fact, would it not be less valuable in this, that it would break no great line of the enemy''s communications, while mine would? |
| 14721 | _ May_ Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? |
| 14721 | _ Must_ Congress protect slavery in the Territories? |
| 14721 | _ Second._ Wherein is a victory more certain by your plan than mine? |
| 14721 | _ Third._ Wherein is a victory more valuable by your plan than mine? |
| 14721 | and why do they deserve to be valued and remembered? |
| 14721 | what is_ invasion_? |
| 7600 | What interest,asks he,"has South Carolina in a canal in Ohio?" |
| 7600 | Again I ask, Why do they not meet the case? |
| 7600 | And does not this very idea of uniformity necessarily imply that the construction given by the national courts is to be the prevailing construction? |
| 7600 | And does the granting of a charter, which is only done to perpetuate the trust in a more convenient manner, make any difference? |
| 7600 | And have indignation, and anger, and terror, no power to affect the human countenance or the human frame? |
| 7600 | And is there any difference, in legal contemplation, between a grant of corporate franchises and a grant of tangible property? |
| 7600 | And now, Mr. President, what is the reason for passing laws like these? |
| 7600 | And now, Sir, I repeat, how is it that a State legislature acquires any power to interfere? |
| 7600 | And now, Sir, how does the honorable member propose to deal with this case? |
| 7600 | And this improvement,--how was it to be accomplished, and who was to accomplish it? |
| 7600 | And what is it? |
| 7600 | And where are their rights, covenants, and stipulations expressed? |
| 7600 | And where does he seek this example? |
| 7600 | And who is it that opposes the change which seems to be going forward? |
| 7600 | And, Sir, how did this debate terminate? |
| 7600 | And, seeing the production of such evidence, might they not feel fear and alarm? |
| 7600 | Are not rewards always offered, when great and secret offences are committed? |
| 7600 | Are people to be dumb and still, through fear of overdoing? |
| 7600 | Are the Crowningshields and the Knapps innocent? |
| 7600 | Are these States both right? |
| 7600 | Are they a sudden and violent usurpation on the rights of the States? |
| 7600 | Are they quite new in the history of the government? |
| 7600 | Are we in that condition still? |
| 7600 | Are we not thrown back again, precisely, upon the old Confederation? |
| 7600 | Are we yet at the mercy of State discretion and State construction? |
| 7600 | Are, then, these acts of the legislature, which affect only particular persons and their particular privileges, laws of the land? |
| 7600 | Be it so; but did she propose the Carolina remedy? |
| 7600 | Besides, what is all this to the present purpose? |
| 7600 | But at present, what could the richest landholder do, against one regiment of disciplined troops? |
| 7600 | But could he so seriously wound himself? |
| 7600 | But do the gold and silver reach those whom the contractor employs? |
| 7600 | But do we need to be informed, in this country, what a_ constitution_ is? |
| 7600 | But does not everybody see and know, that it was matter of absolute necessity to have a special session of the court? |
| 7600 | But how has the gentleman returned this respect for others''opinions? |
| 7600 | But how was this examination to be made? |
| 7600 | But if Goodridge were really robbed, is there satisfactory evidence that the defendants had a hand in the commission of this offence? |
| 7600 | But what are we promised as the equivalent for all this inconvenience and oppression? |
| 7600 | But what does the sub- treasury propose? |
| 7600 | But what is the Corsican laborer, that he should be the model upon which American labor is to be formed? |
| 7600 | But what sort of liberty? |
| 7600 | But who are the innocent whom the law would protect? |
| 7600 | But who shall decide this question of interference? |
| 7600 | But why, if this was not a duty of the federal government, is it mentioned at all? |
| 7600 | But will they view the question in its other aspect? |
| 7600 | But, Sir, if, in the course of forty years, there have been undue effervescences of party in New England, has the same thing happened nowhere else? |
| 7600 | But, Sir, is it true that the motive for these laws is such as is stated? |
| 7600 | But, Sir, what is this danger, and what are the grounds of it? |
| 7600 | Can any man deny that the plaintiffs had rights, under the charter, which were legally vested, and that by these acts those rights are impaired? |
| 7600 | Can she authorize others to do it? |
| 7600 | Can the courts of the United States take notice of the indulgence of a State to commit treason? |
| 7600 | Can this be said of any European laborer? |
| 7600 | Can you say what shall be money, and what shall not be money, and determine its value here and elsewhere? |
| 7600 | Could I do otherwise? |
| 7600 | Could he or would he shoot a pistol- bullet through his hand, in order to render the robbery probable, and to obtain belief in his story? |
| 7600 | Did I attempt to find any other cause than an honest one for these scruples? |
| 7600 | Did he accidentally leave them there? |
| 7600 | Did he do this for authority, or for a topic of reproach? |
| 7600 | Did not even- handed justice erelong commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips? |
| 7600 | Did the robber deposit them there? |
| 7600 | Did they not soon find that for another they had"filed their mind"? |
| 7600 | Did you, Gentlemen, sleep quite as quietly in your beds after this murder as before? |
| 7600 | Do adjectives and epithets avail any thing? |
| 7600 | Do they mean to deny that Captain White is dead? |
| 7600 | Do they mean to deny that the two Crowningshields and the two Knapps were conspirators? |
| 7600 | Do they mean to deny the conspiracy? |
| 7600 | Do they mean to deny the conspiracy? |
| 7600 | Do they wish to establish a_ minority_ government? |
| 7600 | Do they wish to subject the will of the many to the will of the few? |
| 7600 | Do we not know that there must always be bank paper? |
| 7600 | Does any history show property more beneficently applied? |
| 7600 | Does he admit or deny? |
| 7600 | Does he know any thing himself? |
| 7600 | Does he not see how cogently he might be asked, whether it be the character of nullification to practise what it preaches? |
| 7600 | Does he take any share in the government of his country, or feel it an obligation to educate his children? |
| 7600 | Does it call itself a"compact"? |
| 7600 | Does it call itself a"league,"a"confederacy,"a"subsisting treaty between the States"? |
| 7600 | Does it move the masses, or is it an ebullition merely on the surface? |
| 7600 | Does it require of a public man to refuse to concur in amending laws, because they passed against his consent? |
| 7600 | Does it rest with the general government, in all or any of its departments, to exercise the office of final interpreter? |
| 7600 | Does it style itself a league, confederacy, or compact between sovereign States? |
| 7600 | Does not the gentleman perceive, Sir, how his argument against majorities might here be retorted upon him? |
| 7600 | Does not the honorable gentleman well know all this? |
| 7600 | Does not this approach absurdity? |
| 7600 | Does or can this change the nature of the charity, and turn it into a public political corporation? |
| 7600 | Does their general appearance indicate that hardihood which would enable them to act this cool, unconcerned part? |
| 7600 | Does this seem the language of one who had abandoned his post and was merely"bidding for the Presidency"? |
| 7600 | During the past year, he has made what might suffice for two or three fortunes of moderate size; and how has he made it? |
| 7600 | Gentlemen, what must we do in such a case? |
| 7600 | Had he the money with him which he mentions? |
| 7600 | Had the prisoner at the bar, then, a knowledge of this conspiracy or not? |
| 7600 | Had they a right to annul that law? |
| 7600 | Has he a home, a freehold, and the comforts of life around him? |
| 7600 | Has he any education, or does he give any to his children? |
| 7600 | Has he come within beat of drum of any position of mine? |
| 7600 | Has he disproved a fact, refuted a proposition, weakened an argument, maintained by me? |
| 7600 | Has he maintained his own charges? |
| 7600 | Has he proved what he alleged? |
| 7600 | Has he sustained himself in his attack on the government, and on the history of the North, in the matter of the public lands? |
| 7600 | Has the community lost all moral sense? |
| 7600 | Has the government done nothing but prey upon them, and eat out their substance? |
| 7600 | Have the plaintiffs lost their franchises by"due course and process of law"? |
| 7600 | Have they flourished only by our neglect of them? |
| 7600 | Have they no countenance at all in the Constitution itself? |
| 7600 | He believed the embargo unconstitutional, and so did others; but what then? |
| 7600 | He who has a fixed salary of from$ 2,500 to$ 5,000 finds prices falling; but does his salary fall? |
| 7600 | His construction gets us into it; how does he propose to get us out? |
| 7600 | How are these questions to be settled? |
| 7600 | How came Mr. Goodridge to set out from Bangor, armed in this formal and formidable manner? |
| 7600 | How came he to be so apprehensive of a robbery? |
| 7600 | How came they there? |
| 7600 | How can a State undo what the whole people have done? |
| 7600 | How can she absolve her citizens from their obedience to the laws of the United States? |
| 7600 | How can she annul their obligations and oaths? |
| 7600 | How can the members of her legislature renounce their own oaths? |
| 7600 | How can they allow her to be judge of her own obligations? |
| 7600 | How deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet remain innocence? |
| 7600 | How did Massachusetts deal with it? |
| 7600 | How do the jury know that a sleight of hand had not changed the note at Coffin''s? |
| 7600 | How do the jury know that this was the same note which Leavitt had before seen? |
| 7600 | How do you propose to defend us? |
| 7600 | How does he relieve us from this difficulty, upon any principle of his? |
| 7600 | How else, Sir, is it possible that uniformity can be preserved? |
| 7600 | How far are the rights of minorities there respected? |
| 7600 | How has it accomplished this great and essential end? |
| 7600 | How is the motive to be ascertained? |
| 7600 | How is this minority, how are these men, regarded? |
| 7600 | How would that operate in this great State? |
| 7600 | How, Sir, can a law be examined on any such ground? |
| 7600 | How, then, can a State secede? |
| 7600 | How, then, could either of the defendants know that he was coming? |
| 7600 | How, then, they would ask, do you propose to defend us? |
| 7600 | I ask him if the power is not found there, clearly and visibly found there? |
| 7600 | I must now beg to ask, Sir, Whence is this supposed right of the States derived? |
| 7600 | If John Fries had produced an act of Pennsylvania, annulling the law of Congress, would it have helped his case? |
| 7600 | If not, which is in the wrong? |
| 7600 | If one should reason in that way, what would become of the distinguished honor of the author of the Declaration of Independence? |
| 7600 | If so, the second inquiry is, Was he so connected with the murder itself as that he is liable to be convicted as a_ principal_? |
| 7600 | If so, why should those who concerted it send forward to Newburyport to engage the defendants, especially as they did not know that they were there? |
| 7600 | If the President and Senate make peace, may one State, nevertheless, continue the war? |
| 7600 | If the States be parties, as States, what are their rights, and what their respective covenants and stipulations? |
| 7600 | If the case can not come before the courts, and if Congress be not trusted with its decision, who shall decide it? |
| 7600 | If the defendants were innocent, would they not feel indignation at this unjust accusation? |
| 7600 | If the fact is out, why not meet it? |
| 7600 | If there be no power to settle such questions, independent of either of the States, is not the whole Union a rope of sand? |
| 7600 | If they saw an attempt to produce false evidence against them, would they not be angry? |
| 7600 | If this be excitement, is it an unnatural or an improper excitement? |
| 7600 | If this was intended to be a compact or league, and the States to be parties to it, why was it not so said? |
| 7600 | In such a case, under such circumstances, how did Massachusetts demean herself? |
| 7600 | Is a proved conspirator to murder innocent? |
| 7600 | Is dissolution the_ object_? |
| 7600 | Is he bound to consider them both right? |
| 7600 | Is it guiding, controlling, giving the rule to commerce, as a subsisting thing or is it putting an end to it altogether? |
| 7600 | Is it not an idea perfectly familiar, definite, and settled? |
| 7600 | Is it not doing strange violence to language to call a league or a compact between sovereign powers a_ government_? |
| 7600 | Is it not extremely improbable, if the defendants are guilty, that they should deposit the money in the places where it was found? |
| 7600 | Is it not more likely they would have fled? |
| 7600 | Is it the creature of the State legislatures, or the creature of the people? |
| 7600 | Is not this a contract? |
| 7600 | Is not this anarchy, as well as revolution? |
| 7600 | Is not this revolution? |
| 7600 | Is not this revolutionary? |
| 7600 | Is not this the plain result? |
| 7600 | Is one State to sit sole arbitress? |
| 7600 | Is the augmentation of executive power a democratic principle? |
| 7600 | Is the government of the State, on that account, not a popular government? |
| 7600 | Is the imbodying a large military force, in time of peace, a democratic principle? |
| 7600 | Is the separation of the currency of the government from the currency of the people a democratic principle? |
| 7600 | Is the voice of one State conclusive? |
| 7600 | Is there nothing that can agitate the frame or excite the blood but the consciousness of guilt? |
| 7600 | Is this hugging them as a favorite treasure? |
| 7600 | Is this language which describes the formation of a compact between States? |
| 7600 | It is obvious, is it not, Sir? |
| 7600 | May not the twenty- three entertain an opinion as well as the twenty- fourth? |
| 7600 | May we not crave some mercy, under favor and protection of the gentleman''s own authority? |
| 7600 | Must I not have been absolutely malicious, is; I could have thrust myself forward, to destroy sensations thus pleasing? |
| 7600 | Need I say, that that doubt respects the permanency of our Union? |
| 7600 | Now, Sir, again, I ask the gentleman, What is to be done? |
| 7600 | Now, Sir, is not this the exact opposite of the doctrine of the gentleman from South Carolina? |
| 7600 | Now, Sir, is not this the truth of the whole matter? |
| 7600 | Now, Sir, is the exercise of this power of discrimination plainly and palpably unconstitutional? |
| 7600 | Now, Sir, what contradiction does the gentleman find to this sentiment in the speech of 1825? |
| 7600 | Now, Sir, what is the common application of these words? |
| 7600 | Now, how should it happen that the several parcels of money should all be found in the father''s possession? |
| 7600 | Now, is this regulating commerce, or destroying it? |
| 7600 | Now, what say you, my friends? |
| 7600 | Of what nature are all rights of suffrage? |
| 7600 | Or disappointment, rather, and sore mortification,--dust and ashes, the common fate of vaulting ambition overleaping itself? |
| 7600 | Or may each of the States, as well as the general government, claim this right of ultimate decision? |
| 7600 | Or who ever heard, before, that a gift to a college, or a hospital, or an asylum, was, in reality, nothing but a gift to the State? |
| 7600 | Or, if she may judge of her obligations, may they not judge of their rights also? |
| 7600 | Or, if they admit it, will they tell us how those who framed the Constitution fell, thus early, into this great mistake about its meaning? |
| 7600 | Permanent power? |
| 7600 | Quem enim alium appellem? |
| 7600 | Should not this be"_ more_"? |
| 7600 | Sir, as these secessions go on, one after another, what is to constitute the United States? |
| 7600 | Sir, did I state this as matter of reproach? |
| 7600 | Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom? |
| 7600 | Sir, does political consistency consist in always giving negative votes? |
| 7600 | Sir, we believed the embargo unconstitutional; but still that was matter of opinion, and who was to decide it? |
| 7600 | Substantial good? |
| 7600 | Suppose he owed money in Boston, and had it not to pay? |
| 7600 | Suppose this were so; why should_ he_ therefore abuse New England? |
| 7600 | That is true; but would the judge admit our plea? |
| 7600 | That may all be so; but if the tribunal should not happen to be of that opinion, shall we swing for it? |
| 7600 | That would be very imposing; but what then? |
| 7600 | The State legislatures? |
| 7600 | The first question then is, What does it say of itself? |
| 7600 | The first thing that strikes one in this account is, Why was not this discovery made at the time? |
| 7600 | The great question is, Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the laws? |
| 7600 | The great question, therefore, to be decided is, To which class of corporations do colleges thus founded belong? |
| 7600 | The language of Colonel Barre, in reply to this, was:"They planted by your care? |
| 7600 | The only question is, Shall it be a coercion of law, or a coercion of arms? |
| 7600 | The people have ordained a Constitution; can they reject it without revolution? |
| 7600 | The question was put, according to the form then practised,"Shall these words stand as a part of the plan?" |
| 7600 | The reply would be, I think, not impertinent,"Who made you a judge over another''s servants? |
| 7600 | Their eyeballs were seared( was it not so, Sir?) |
| 7600 | They have established a form of government; can they overthrow it without revolution? |
| 7600 | This is denied; and here arises the great practical question,_ Who is to construe finally the Constitution of the United States_? |
| 7600 | Those who murdered Banquo, what did they win by it? |
| 7600 | To whom lies the last appeal? |
| 7600 | Truly, Sir, is not this a little too hard? |
| 7600 | Very well, Sir, supposing me to be accurately reported in that expression, what is the contradiction? |
| 7600 | Was ever anything more reasonable? |
| 7600 | Was he in a house of a suspicious character? |
| 7600 | Was it Mirabeau, Mr. President, or some other master of the human passions, who has told us that words are things? |
| 7600 | Was it a thing to be slept upon or forgotten? |
| 7600 | Was it not much better and kinder, both to sleep upon them myself, and to allow others also the pleasure of sleeping upon them? |
| 7600 | Was this folly, or fraud, or a strange mixture of both? |
| 7600 | Was_ he_ likely to know the intentions of the Convention and the people? |
| 7600 | Was_ he_ likely to understand the Constitution? |
| 7600 | We all agree that the Constitution is the supreme law; but who shall interpret that law? |
| 7600 | Were the settlers in the West driven thither by our oppression? |
| 7600 | Were they persons of suspicious characters? |
| 7600 | What are the oppressions experienced under the Union, calling for measures which thus threaten to sever and destroy it? |
| 7600 | What are their crimes, that they hide themselves in darkness? |
| 7600 | What can I say of what regards myself? |
| 7600 | What construction would be given to such conduct? |
| 7600 | What could possibly induce the defendants to place it there? |
| 7600 | What did he do? |
| 7600 | What does it purport to be? |
| 7600 | What has he done? |
| 7600 | What hinders Vermont from considering herself equally the representative of the public, and from resuming her grants, at her own pleasure? |
| 7600 | What inconsistency in word or doctrine has he been able to detect? |
| 7600 | What induces this armed pursuit, and this arrest of fugitives, of all ages and both sexes? |
| 7600 | What is a_ constitution_? |
| 7600 | What is innocence? |
| 7600 | What is it to him but a wide- spread prospect of suffering, anguish, and death? |
| 7600 | What is revolution? |
| 7600 | What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure, or, to use the phraseology of the times,_ during feeling_? |
| 7600 | What is that cause? |
| 7600 | What is that glorious recollection, which thrills through his frame, and suffuses his eyes? |
| 7600 | What is_ American labor_? |
| 7600 | What law was passed? |
| 7600 | What precise meaning, then, does he attach to the term_ constitutional_? |
| 7600 | What produced this change of views? |
| 7600 | What should induce any persons so suddenly to apply to the defendants to assist in a robbery? |
| 7600 | What should induce the robbers, when they left all other papers, to take this receipt? |
| 7600 | What sort of a story is this? |
| 7600 | What was his difficulty? |
| 7600 | What would Mr. Van Buren recommend? |
| 7600 | What, then, can be your objections?" |
| 7600 | What, then, do gentlemen wish? |
| 7600 | What, then, induced the change? |
| 7600 | What, then, was to be done? |
| 7600 | What, then, were we to do? |
| 7600 | When has it happened that history has had so much to record in the same term of years, as since the 17th of June, 1775? |
| 7600 | When or how could the prisoners have been tried without a special session? |
| 7600 | When the traveller pauses on the plain of Marathon, what are the emotions which most strongly agitate his breast? |
| 7600 | When war is declared by a law of Congress, can a single State nullify that law, and remain at peace? |
| 7600 | Where do they find the power to interfere with the laws of the Union? |
| 7600 | Where is the ground of the gentleman''s triumph? |
| 7600 | Where is the inconsistency? |
| 7600 | Where will they end? |
| 7600 | Where will those who oppose a coercion of law come out? |
| 7600 | Who are the rich in this country? |
| 7600 | Who can make this comparison, or contemplate this spectacle, without delight and a feeling of just pride? |
| 7600 | Who did he suppose was to decide that question? |
| 7600 | Who else are the rich in this country? |
| 7600 | Who ever appointed a legislature to administer his charity? |
| 7600 | Who ever endowed the public? |
| 7600 | Who fulfil the public treaties? |
| 7600 | Who govern this District and the Territories? |
| 7600 | Who is to judge between the people and the government? |
| 7600 | Who knows how high he might estimate the value of a plausible apology? |
| 7600 | Who perform the constitutional guaranties? |
| 7600 | Who retain the public property? |
| 7600 | Who shall decide these controversies? |
| 7600 | Who shall interpret their will, where it may be supposed they have left it doubtful? |
| 7600 | Who were these persons? |
| 7600 | Who will pay the debts? |
| 7600 | Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable? |
| 7600 | Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity? |
| 7600 | Who would wish that his country''s existence had otherwise begun? |
| 7600 | Who, then, shall construe this grant of the people? |
| 7600 | Whose agent is it? |
| 7600 | Whose the navy? |
| 7600 | Whose will be the army? |
| 7600 | Why all this complaint against the manner in which the crime is discovered? |
| 7600 | Why all this fear of revenue? |
| 7600 | Why do they not come to the fact? |
| 7600 | Why do they rail against Palmer, while they do not disprove, and hardly dispute, the truth of any one fact sworn to by him? |
| 7600 | Why is there found no one expression in the whole instrument indicating such intent? |
| 7600 | Why should he leave this essential fact without further support? |
| 7600 | Why should not a robber take as good care of his money as others? |
| 7600 | Why should they put it in small parcels in so many places, for no end but to multiply the chances of detection? |
| 7600 | Why was it not said,"the States enter into this new league,""the States form this new confederation,"or"the States agree to this new compact"? |
| 7600 | Why was not similar language used in the Constitution, if a similar intention had existed? |
| 7600 | Why was_ he_ singled out? |
| 7600 | Why, Sir, has it become a settled axiom in politics that every government must have a judicial power coextensive with its legislative power? |
| 7600 | Why, especially, should they put a doubloon in their father''s pocket- book? |
| 7600 | Why, then, all this alarm? |
| 7600 | Why? |
| 7600 | Will gentlemen, Sir, now answer the argument drawn from these proceedings of the first Congress? |
| 7600 | Will they show us how it is possible for a government to get along with four- and- twenty interpreters of its laws and powers? |
| 7600 | Will they tell us how it should happen that they had so soon forgotten their own sentiments and their own purposes? |
| 7600 | Will they undertake to deny that that Congress did act on the avowed principle of protection? |
| 7600 | Will this revolution succeed? |
| 7600 | With whom do they repose this ultimate right of deciding on the powers of the government? |
| 7600 | Would Pennsylvania alone ever have constructed it? |
| 7600 | Would Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware have united to accomplish it at their joint expense? |
| 7600 | Would anything, with such a principle in it, or rather with such a destitution of all principle, be fit to be called a government? |
| 7600 | Would it have been quite amiable in me, Sir, to interrupt this excellent good feeling? |
| 7600 | Would it not be better to convince you that he has committed no crime? |
| 7600 | Would it not be better to show his innocence? |
| 7600 | Yes, Sir, and what sort of a war has he made of it? |
| 7600 | Yet has the rest of the country no right to its opinion also? |
| 7600 | You can transport your merchandise yourselves; you can build ships, and make your own wagons; but can you make a currency? |
| 7600 | Your first inquiry, on the evidence, will be, Was Captain White murdered in pursuance of a conspiracy, and was the defendant one of this conspiracy? |
| 7600 | [ 4] What was to be done? |
| 7600 | a mode of reasoning which disregards plain facts for the sake of hypothesis? |
| 7600 | and need I say, that that doubt is now caused, more than any thing else, by these very proceedings of South Carolina? |
| 7600 | believed or expected or desired that he would interfere with the Bank of the United States, or destroy the circulating medium of the country? |
| 7600 | did she threaten to interfere, by State authority, to annul the laws of the Union? |
| 7600 | or language describing the grant of powers to a new government, by the whole people of the United States? |
| 7600 | or rather, which has the best right to decide? |
| 7600 | quem obtester? |
| 7600 | quern implorem? |
| 7600 | that their ambition, though apparently for the moment successful, had but put a barren sceptre in their grasp? |
| 12606 | Change places,cries poor Lear,"_ change places_, and_ handy- dandy_, which is the justice and which the thief?" |
| 12606 | Did I use that phrase? 12606 Do you believe in the existence of a God?" |
| 12606 | In what condition would this country be, if appeals could be thus taken to courts and juries? 12606 May they not possibly be more successful than their mother country has been in preserving that reverence and authority which are due to the laws? |
| 12606 | Shall I live here for ever? |
| 12606 | That is a very large number, my friend,I said;"but how is that?" |
| 12606 | Well,said I,"where are they, and what are they?" |
| 12606 | What interest,asks he,"has South Carolina in a canal in Ohio?" |
| 12606 | What,he exclaims, putting his argument in his favorite interrogative form,--"what is the most odious species of tyranny? |
| 12606 | When did you see Dick? |
| 12606 | When is he going to kill the old man? |
| 12606 | Whence am I, what am I, and what is before me? |
| 12606 | Why, then,he asks us,"why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? |
| 12606 | [ 46] Have the plaintiffs lost their franchises bydue course and process of law"? |
| 12606 | _ Alcibiades._ How could any one deny that? 12606 _ But must they rest here, as in the utmost effort of human genius? |
| 12606 | A remarkable change has taken place since; but what did the wise and great men of all parts of the country think of slavery then? |
| 12606 | Add to this the fact of its having been dated at Lynn, and mailed at Salem four days after it was dated, and who could doubt respecting it? |
| 12606 | Again I ask, Why do they not meet the case? |
| 12606 | Again, therefore, I ask, If he can not tell us what the Constitution is, and what it means, who can? |
| 12606 | Again,"Do you believe in a future state of rewards and punishments?" |
| 12606 | Agreement? |
| 12606 | An American no longer? |
| 12606 | And as for the local discount, do you wish it? |
| 12606 | And as to the_ soundness_ of the currency, how does that stand? |
| 12606 | And at a more recent date, did they ask the citizens of Cracow what change they would have in their constitution? |
| 12606 | And can more than one power, in cases of this sort, give the rule, establish the system, or exercise the control? |
| 12606 | And can not all these great truths be taught to children without their minds being perplexed with clashing doctrines and sectarian controversies? |
| 12606 | And does he use, without stint or measure, all precedents which may augment his own power, or gratify his own wishes? |
| 12606 | And does not this prove him to have had a knowledge of the conspiracy? |
| 12606 | And does not this very idea of uniformity necessarily imply that the construction given by the national courts is to be the prevailing construction? |
| 12606 | And does the granting of a charter, which is only done to perpetuate the trust in a more convenient manner, make any difference? |
| 12606 | And have not the States granted bank charters with a condition, that, if the charter should be accepted, they would not grant others? |
| 12606 | And here let me turn to the consideration of the question, What is an oath? |
| 12606 | And how does it contrast with the scene now actually before us? |
| 12606 | And how is it with California? |
| 12606 | And how is it with the credit of our own Commonwealth? |
| 12606 | And how is that inconsistent with any thing said by me now, or ever said by me? |
| 12606 | And how was it in the Senate? |
| 12606 | And how will they be filled? |
| 12606 | And if force be used, may that force be lawfully repelled? |
| 12606 | And if such provision had been made, what power, or custody, or control, would the President have possessed over them? |
| 12606 | And if the war must go on, why put off longer the Declaration of Independence? |
| 12606 | And in regard to the individual who addresses you,--what do his brother Whigs mean to do with him? |
| 12606 | And is a press that is purchased or pensioned more free than a press that is fettered? |
| 12606 | And is a reasonable check on the power of removal any thing more than a qualification of the tenure of office? |
| 12606 | And is it not plain to every man? |
| 12606 | And is it not so? |
| 12606 | And is there any difference, in legal contemplation, between a grant of corporate franchises and a grant of tangible property? |
| 12606 | And may it not fear to speak, too, when its conductors, if they speak in any but one way, may lose their means of livelihood? |
| 12606 | And may not the good be preserved, and the evil still avoided? |
| 12606 | And now, Mr. President, what is the reason for passing laws like these? |
| 12606 | And now, Sir, I ask, if this be so, why was not this appropriation recommended to Congress by the President? |
| 12606 | And now, Sir, I repeat, how is it that a State legislature acquires any power to interfere? |
| 12606 | And now, Sir, how does the honorable member propose to deal with this case? |
| 12606 | And now, Sir, it becomes important to ask, When was this bill, thus amended, returned to the House of Representatives? |
| 12606 | And now, Sir, let me ask, when did the honorable member relinquish these early opinions and principles of his? |
| 12606 | And now, Sir, what has been the conduct pursued by the Allied Powers in regard to this contest? |
| 12606 | And now, let me ask, What is, in contemplation of law,"a charity"? |
| 12606 | And pray, what is to constitute the suitableness of time? |
| 12606 | And since we must fight it through, why not put ourselves in a state to enjoy all the benefits of victory, if we gain the victory? |
| 12606 | And then there were New Mexico and Utah; what was to be done with them? |
| 12606 | And this experiment, with all its cost, is to be tried, for what? |
| 12606 | And this improvement,--how was it to be accomplished, and who was to accomplish it? |
| 12606 | And what consolation for all this is it, that the public lands are paid for in specie? |
| 12606 | And what did I do here to oppose it? |
| 12606 | And what did we witness, Sir, when the administration actually commenced, in the full exercise of its authority? |
| 12606 | And what has been her progress? |
| 12606 | And what has been the result? |
| 12606 | And what has been the subsequent practice? |
| 12606 | And what is it all for? |
| 12606 | And what is it? |
| 12606 | And what may not an unlimited representative of the people do? |
| 12606 | And what sort of a character is likely to be made by this process, this experimental system of instruction? |
| 12606 | And what will be the result of opposing their re- election? |
| 12606 | And what, under the operation of such a rule, may be thought of our example? |
| 12606 | And when the Decalogue was delivered to the Jews, with this great announcement and command at its head, what said the inspired lawgiver? |
| 12606 | And where are their rights, covenants, and stipulations expressed? |
| 12606 | And where does he find any such right or any such duty? |
| 12606 | And who can say that it has failed? |
| 12606 | And who has authority, without law, to create an office, to fix a salary, and to pay that salary out of this money? |
| 12606 | And why is it particularly set down and expressed, if any power was intended to be granted under the general words? |
| 12606 | And why not? |
| 12606 | And why should I not expect to be libelled? |
| 12606 | And why were there not one third? |
| 12606 | And why? |
| 12606 | And why? |
| 12606 | And why? |
| 12606 | And would it not be just as easy to prevent sectarian doctrines from being preached by a clergyman, as from being taught by a layman? |
| 12606 | And, Sir, how did this debate terminate? |
| 12606 | And, Sir, what is its tendency but to excite this jealousy, and create groundless prejudices? |
| 12606 | And, after an experience of thirty- five years, what is there which an enemy could condemn? |
| 12606 | And, in the first place, what is the condition of our commerce? |
| 12606 | Another important point involved in this question is, What becomes of the Christian Sabbath, in a school thus established? |
| 12606 | Are all verdicts, judgments, and orders of courts null and void, if made after midnight on the day which the law prescribes as the last day? |
| 12606 | Are exchanges at par, or only at the same low rates as in 1829 and other years? |
| 12606 | Are fundamental changes in the frame of a government to be thus proved? |
| 12606 | Are not our fathers libelled and abused by their own children? |
| 12606 | Are not rewards always offered, when great and secret offences are committed? |
| 12606 | Are our colleges deserted? |
| 12606 | Are people to be dumb and still, through fear of overdoing? |
| 12606 | Are the Crowninshields and the Knapps innocent? |
| 12606 | Are the causes of alarm less now than in 1829? |
| 12606 | Are the people to judge for themselves, or are others to judge for them? |
| 12606 | Are these States both right? |
| 12606 | Are they a sudden and violent usurpation on the rights of the States? |
| 12606 | Are they prepared to defend it? |
| 12606 | Are they quite new in the history of the government? |
| 12606 | Are they to resign? |
| 12606 | Are they true? |
| 12606 | Are they willing to look it in the face, and then say they embrace it? |
| 12606 | Are they worthy of belief? |
| 12606 | Are we at a post which we are at liberty to desert when it becomes difficult to hold it? |
| 12606 | Are we elevated, or degraded, by its operation? |
| 12606 | Are we going to cut the throats of her people? |
| 12606 | Are we in that condition still? |
| 12606 | Are we not threatened with dissolution of the Union? |
| 12606 | Are we not thrown back again, precisely, upon the old Confederation? |
| 12606 | Are we not told that the laws of the government shall be openly and directly resisted? |
| 12606 | Are we now looking for the time when we can charter a United States Bank with a large private subscription? |
| 12606 | Are we to endanger our pacific relations? |
| 12606 | Are we to go to war? |
| 12606 | Are we to interfere in the Greek cause, or any other European cause? |
| 12606 | Are we to stifle all these for ever? |
| 12606 | Are we to suffer all these persons, many of them meritorious and respectable, to be pressed to the earth for ever, by a load of hopeless debt? |
| 12606 | Are we to thrust the sword deeper and deeper into the"vital parts"of Mexico? |
| 12606 | Are we yet at the mercy of State discretion and State construction? |
| 12606 | Are we, then, to do nothing to save the vessel from sinking, till the chances of the winds and waves have landed us on the shore? |
| 12606 | Are you, or any of you, ashamed of this great work of your fathers? |
| 12606 | Are, then, these acts of the legislature, which affect only particular persons and their particular privileges, laws of the land? |
| 12606 | As fathers, do we wish for our children better government, or better laws? |
| 12606 | As there was no liberty in Spain, how could liberty be transmitted to Spanish colonies? |
| 12606 | As to Richard''s being alone in the house, was not that known? |
| 12606 | As to his being out that night, was not that known? |
| 12606 | As to his returning afterwards, was not that known? |
| 12606 | As to its being proposed by Joseph, was not that known? |
| 12606 | As to the club, was not that known? |
| 12606 | As to the daggers, was not that known? |
| 12606 | As to the enormity of freehold suffrage, how long is it since Virginia, the parent of States, gave up her freehold suffrage? |
| 12606 | As to the time of the murder, was not that known? |
| 12606 | At what former period, under what former administration, did public officers of the United States thus interfere in elections? |
| 12606 | Be it so; but did she propose the Carolina remedy? |
| 12606 | Because they are incapable? |
| 12606 | Because they are incompetent? |
| 12606 | Because they are remiss, negligent, or inattentive? |
| 12606 | Besides, Sir, how should it ever occur to anybody, that we should continue to export gold and silver, if we did not continue to import them also? |
| 12606 | Besides, what is all this to the present purpose? |
| 12606 | Between those powers questions may arise; and who shall decide them? |
| 12606 | But James abdicated, and King William took the government; and how did he proceed? |
| 12606 | But are not the friends of a convertible paper_ hard- money men_, in every practical and sensible meaning of the term? |
| 12606 | But at present, what could the richest landholder do, against one regiment of disciplined troops? |
| 12606 | But at this moment of its apparent struggle, can we as men, can we as patriots, add another stone to the weight that threatens to carry it down? |
| 12606 | But bound by what? |
| 12606 | But by what means is it proposed to preserve this peace? |
| 12606 | But can any reasonable man doubt the expediency of this provision, or suggest a better? |
| 12606 | But can that be truly called a charity which flies in the face of all the laws of God and all the usages of Christian man? |
| 12606 | But did ever any man under that authority attempt to exercise a particle of official power? |
| 12606 | But did not every gentleman who voted for it take the responsibility and deserve the honor of that single vote? |
| 12606 | But do we need to be informed, in this country, what a_ constitution_ is? |
| 12606 | But does he know how remarks of that sort will be received by the laboring people of the North? |
| 12606 | But does not everybody see and know, that it was matter of absolute necessity to have a special session of the court? |
| 12606 | But first, let me ask, is it not very remarkable that there is no attempt to show where Richard Crowninshield, Jr. was on that night? |
| 12606 | But have not these governments as great an interest to cripple our marine, by preventing the growth of our commerce and navigation? |
| 12606 | But have we gained as much as we have lost? |
| 12606 | But how could they safely admit that? |
| 12606 | But how has the gentleman returned this respect for others''opinions? |
| 12606 | But how interpose, and what does this declaration purport? |
| 12606 | But how is it now? |
| 12606 | But how stands the inland frontier? |
| 12606 | But how will he oppose? |
| 12606 | But if the interest can not be paid without pressure, can both interest and principal be paid in four years without pressure? |
| 12606 | But is not every such article the product of our own labor as truly as if we had manufactured it ourselves? |
| 12606 | But is there any justice in this mode of calculation? |
| 12606 | But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust? |
| 12606 | But it is utterly hopeless to look for such an amendment; who expects to live to see its day? |
| 12606 | But now, Sir, what do we want of a greater force than we have in Mexico? |
| 12606 | But now, Sir, who and what is Mr. Polk? |
| 12606 | But suppose the continuance of the charter should prove beneficial to the stockholders; do they not pay for it? |
| 12606 | But suppose, Sir, there was less hope than there is, would that consideration weaken the force of our obligations? |
| 12606 | But the Senate sometimes_ rejects_ the new nomination; and what then becomes of the old incumbent? |
| 12606 | But the laboring man, what can he hoard? |
| 12606 | But the question for your honors to decide here is, What is a charity, or a charitable use, in contemplation of law? |
| 12606 | But then, Sir, what relieves the case from this enormity? |
| 12606 | But what did he say? |
| 12606 | But what did those care who had had the benefit of their votes? |
| 12606 | But what do we now see? |
| 12606 | But what do we propose to do for it? |
| 12606 | But what ground is there for a distinction? |
| 12606 | But what have the friends and admirers of Mr. Jefferson to say to this_ appropriation_? |
| 12606 | But what is your own language on this point? |
| 12606 | But what law has provided for such an officer? |
| 12606 | But what of that? |
| 12606 | But what sort of liberty? |
| 12606 | But what then? |
| 12606 | But what were we to do? |
| 12606 | But what, then, becomes of the interests of others? |
| 12606 | But who are the innocent whom the law would protect? |
| 12606 | But who can enjoy political liberty if he is deprived, permanently, of personal liberty, and the exercise of his own industry and his own faculties? |
| 12606 | But who is to judge whether Congress has made this plenary exercise of power? |
| 12606 | But who shall decide this question of interference? |
| 12606 | But who shall reconstruct the fabric of demolished government? |
| 12606 | But who, from beneath the weight of mortification and shame that would oppress him, could look up to behold it? |
| 12606 | But whose act was it, in truth and reality? |
| 12606 | But why is it not produced now? |
| 12606 | But will they view the question in its other aspect? |
| 12606 | But, Sir, do we not now see that it was time, and high time, to press this bill, and to send it to the President? |
| 12606 | But, Sir, if, in the course of forty years, there have been undue effervescences of party in New England, has the same thing happened nowhere else? |
| 12606 | But, Sir, is it true that the motive for these laws is such as is stated? |
| 12606 | But, Sir, what is the prospect of change? |
| 12606 | But, Sir, what is this danger, and what are the grounds of it? |
| 12606 | But, it is asked, what could Mr. Girard have done? |
| 12606 | But, then, what is labor? |
| 12606 | But, then, who is to be judge of this truth and justice? |
| 12606 | By the airs he gives himself? |
| 12606 | By the party he belongs to? |
| 12606 | By what argument, do you imagine, Gentlemen, was such a proposition maintained? |
| 12606 | Can New York shut her ports to all but her own citizens? |
| 12606 | Can a State grant a monopoly of trade? |
| 12606 | Can a State make any thing but gold and silver a tender in payment of future debts? |
| 12606 | Can any man deny that the plaintiffs had rights, under the charter, which were legally vested, and that by these acts those rights are impaired? |
| 12606 | Can any one doubt this being the same evening? |
| 12606 | Can any person doubt that they were there for purposes connected with this murder? |
| 12606 | Can any such connection be proved upon him, can he prove it upon himself, before that time? |
| 12606 | Can any thing occur to disfigure and derange the form of government under which we live more signally than that? |
| 12606 | Can individuals make a currency? |
| 12606 | Can individuals regulate money? |
| 12606 | Can it be doubted for an instant that sentiments like these are derogatory to the Christian religion? |
| 12606 | Can it so modify a debt that it shall not be always binding, in law as well as in morals? |
| 12606 | Can not every man see this distinction to be consistent? |
| 12606 | Can she authorize others to do it? |
| 12606 | Can she refuse admission to ships of particular nations? |
| 12606 | Can the courts of the United States take notice of the indulgence of a State to commit treason? |
| 12606 | Can the people look for truths to partial sources, whether rendered partial through fear or through favor? |
| 12606 | Can we abstain from exercising it? |
| 12606 | Can we lay our heads upon our pillows, and, without self- reproach, supplicate the Almighty Mercy to forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors? |
| 12606 | Can we rely on the constancy and perseverance of the people? |
| 12606 | Can we sell a dollar of it? |
| 12606 | Can you conceive of any thing more enormous, any wickedness greater, than the circulation of such reports? |
| 12606 | Can you conceive of crime more odious and abominable? |
| 12606 | Can you, therefore, entertain a doubt that he was one of the persons seen in Brown Street? |
| 12606 | Coming from what source higher than the Constitution? |
| 12606 | Congress has acted on this power; it has done all that it deemed wise; and are the States now to do whatever Congress has left undone? |
| 12606 | Could I do otherwise? |
| 12606 | Could a State lay a stamp tax on the process of the courts of the United States, and on custom- house papers? |
| 12606 | Could a State tax the_ coin_ of the United States at the mint? |
| 12606 | Could he have aided the silence of his movements? |
| 12606 | Could he have facilitated his retreat, on the first alarm? |
| 12606 | Could he have helped him to fly? |
| 12606 | Could he know, under such circumstances, whether it was ten minutes past ten, or ten minutes before eleven, when his brother spoke to him? |
| 12606 | Could it tax the transportation of the mail, or the ships of war, or the ordnance, or the muniments of war, of the United States? |
| 12606 | Could they have adopted a more direct method of exposing their own infamy? |
| 12606 | Cut off from all hope of royal clemency, what are you, what can you be, while the power of England remains, but outlaws? |
| 12606 | Did I attempt to find any other cause than an honest one for these scruples? |
| 12606 | Did I not know Massachusetts feelings and prejudices? |
| 12606 | Did I retract a jot or tittle of what Mr. Forsyth had said? |
| 12606 | Did I, in that speech, or any other, insist on excluding all convertible paper from the uses of society? |
| 12606 | Did a man ever live that had a respect for the Christian religion, and yet had no regard for_ any one_ of its ministers? |
| 12606 | Did any man ever bring a suit? |
| 12606 | Did ever an officer make an arrest? |
| 12606 | Did he concur, or did he non- concur, in what the perpetrator was about to do? |
| 12606 | Did he do this for authority, or for a topic of reproach? |
| 12606 | Did he go there by agreement, by appointment with the perpetrator? |
| 12606 | Did he suppose that he should be suspected? |
| 12606 | Did irredeemable bank paper ever enrich the laborious? |
| 12606 | Did it aim to maintain artificial and unnatural prices? |
| 12606 | Did it carry further the laws of prohibition and exclusion? |
| 12606 | Did it draw closer the cords of colonial restraint? |
| 12606 | Did it maintain a swollen and extravagant paper circulation? |
| 12606 | Did not I commit myself in 1837 to the whole doctrine, fully, entirely? |
| 12606 | Did not even- handed justice erelong commend the poisoned chalice to their own lips? |
| 12606 | Did not the first Bank of the United States contain a similar restriction? |
| 12606 | Did she possess a port in the Mediterranean? |
| 12606 | Did she then possess Gibraltar, the key to the Mediterranean? |
| 12606 | Did that system of instruction ever exist, which denounced the whole body of Christian teachers, and yet called itself a system of Christianity? |
| 12606 | Did the perpetrator know he was there, there waiting? |
| 12606 | Did the prisoner at the bar countenance this murder? |
| 12606 | Did they bandy about the chance of life, between these two, in this way? |
| 12606 | Did they exercise sovereign power? |
| 12606 | Did they give information that they had been assaulted that night at Wenham? |
| 12606 | Did they make hue and cry? |
| 12606 | Did they mean executive power as known in England, or as known in France, or as known in Russia? |
| 12606 | Did they move them? |
| 12606 | Did they not soon find that for another they had"filed their mind"? |
| 12606 | Did they take it as defined by Montesquieu, by Burlamaqui, or by De Lolme? |
| 12606 | Did true constitutional liberty then exist? |
| 12606 | Did violent fluctuations ever do good to him who depends on his daily labor for his daily bread? |
| 12606 | Did we ever hear of an instance, does history record an instance, of any part of the globe Christianized by lay preachers, or"lay teachers"? |
| 12606 | Did wild schemes and projects ever benefit the industrious? |
| 12606 | Did you, Gentlemen, sleep quite as quietly in your beds after this murder as before? |
| 12606 | Do adjectives and epithets avail any thing? |
| 12606 | Do fathers find themselves less able than usual to educate their children? |
| 12606 | Do n''t we call it so? |
| 12606 | Do n''t we hear it avowed every day, that it would be proper also to take Sonora, Tamaulipas, and other provinces of Northern Mexico? |
| 12606 | Do not some people call it a covenant with hell? |
| 12606 | Do not they say that? |
| 12606 | Do our constitutional rights and duties terminate where the water ceases to be salt? |
| 12606 | Do public improvements favor intercourse between place and place? |
| 12606 | Do they concur in any general constitutional principles? |
| 12606 | Do they know the same man? |
| 12606 | Do they mean to deny that Captain White is dead? |
| 12606 | Do they mean to deny that the two Crowninshields and the two Knapps were conspirators? |
| 12606 | Do they mean to deny the conspiracy? |
| 12606 | Do they mean to deny the conspiracy? |
| 12606 | Do they need further protection? |
| 12606 | Do they wish to establish a_ minority_ government? |
| 12606 | Do they wish to subject the will of the many to the will of the few? |
| 12606 | Do we fear to stand out against him? |
| 12606 | Do we hope to better our condition by change? |
| 12606 | Do we mean to submit to the measures of Parliament, Boston Port Bill and all? |
| 12606 | Do we mean to submit, and consent that we ourselves shall be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden down in the dust? |
| 12606 | Do we not challenge the respect of the whole world? |
| 12606 | Do we not feel ourselves on an eminence? |
| 12606 | Do we not know what has been the case in this State? |
| 12606 | Do we not owe it to the instrumentality of the Christian ministry? |
| 12606 | Do we not see that banking capital and bank paper are enormously increasing? |
| 12606 | Do we tax, or did we ever tax, the foreign holders of our public debt? |
| 12606 | Do we want a man to give a better vote in Congress than Mr. Hale gives? |
| 12606 | Do we wish to withhold that approbation? |
| 12606 | Do we, or do we not, mean to conform to it, and to execute that part of the Constitution as well as the rest of it? |
| 12606 | Do you believe Phippen Knapp against these two respectable witnesses, or them against him? |
| 12606 | Do you look for the current of the Ohio to change, and to bring you and your commerce to the tidewaters of Eastern rivers? |
| 12606 | Do you not see mighty motive enough on the one side, and want of all motive on the other? |
| 12606 | Do you propose,--I will not put it in that form,--but would it be proper for this court to reverse that adjudication? |
| 12606 | Do you, in State Street, wish that the nation should send millions of untaxed banking capital hither to increase your discounts? |
| 12606 | Does Pennsylvania, New York, or Ohio tax the foreign holders of stock in the loans contracted by either of these States? |
| 12606 | Does any history show property more beneficently applied? |
| 12606 | Does any man doubt the purpose for which it was penned? |
| 12606 | Does he admit or deny? |
| 12606 | Does he admit the converse of the proposition, that we have a right to check the States? |
| 12606 | Does he mean legal responsibility? |
| 12606 | Does he not see how cogently he might be asked, whether it be the character of nullification to practise what it preaches? |
| 12606 | Does he wish to leave an undefined impression that something was done, or something said, by me, not now capable of defence or justification? |
| 12606 | Does it call itself a"compact"? |
| 12606 | Does it call itself a"league,"a"confederacy,"a"subsisting treaty between the States"? |
| 12606 | Does it discharge the debtor? |
| 12606 | Does it not admit the power of Congress, at once, upon all these minor objects of legislation? |
| 12606 | Does it not find itself affected in its credit by the general state of the credit of the country? |
| 12606 | Does it not show that he had a knowledge of the object and history of the murder? |
| 12606 | Does it require of a public man to refuse to concur in amending laws, because they passed against his consent? |
| 12606 | Does it rest with the general government, in all or any of its departments, to exercise the office of final interpreter? |
| 12606 | Does it style itself a league, confederacy, or compact between sovereign States? |
| 12606 | Does not the event teach us, that the measure was not brought forward one moment too early? |
| 12606 | Does not the general government comprise the same people who make up the State governments? |
| 12606 | Does not the gentleman perceive, Sir, how his argument against majorities might here be retorted upon him? |
| 12606 | Does not the honorable gentleman well know all this? |
| 12606 | Does not this approach absurdity? |
| 12606 | Does not this carry an implication of the guilt of the defendant? |
| 12606 | Does not this language mean that particular sums shall be assigned by law to particular objects? |
| 12606 | Does nullification teach any thing more revolutionary than that? |
| 12606 | Does or can this change the nature of the charity, and turn it into a public political corporation? |
| 12606 | Does repudiation pay a debt? |
| 12606 | Does the President, then, reject the authority of all precedent except what it is suitable to his own purpose to use? |
| 12606 | Does the gentleman affirm that I said that? |
| 12606 | Does this need arguing? |
| 12606 | For ourselves, we may be ready to run the hazard; but are we ready to carry the country to that length? |
| 12606 | For why should Richard Crowninshield, Jr. kill Mr. White? |
| 12606 | From whom does this clamor come? |
| 12606 | Gentlemen, what must we do in such a case? |
| 12606 | Gentlemen, will you allow me, for a moment, to advert to myself? |
| 12606 | Had he any intimation of this conspiracy? |
| 12606 | Had he wit enough to invent this? |
| 12606 | Had the prisoner at the bar, then, a knowledge of this conspiracy or not? |
| 12606 | Had they a right to annul that law? |
| 12606 | Happily, this power was not granted; but suppose it had been, what would then have been the true condition of this government? |
| 12606 | Has any English sovereign since Cromwell''s time dared to send such a message to Parliament? |
| 12606 | Has he a dollar? |
| 12606 | Has he a prerogative of dispensation which they do not possess? |
| 12606 | Has he accounted for himself on that night to your satisfaction? |
| 12606 | Has he admonished the country that the Union is in danger, and called on all the patriotic to come out in its support? |
| 12606 | Has he anywhere discouraged them? |
| 12606 | Has he anywhere rebuked them? |
| 12606 | Has he come within beat of drum of any position of mine? |
| 12606 | Has he disproved a fact, refuted a proposition, weakened an argument, maintained by me? |
| 12606 | Has he followed the bright example of his predecessors? |
| 12606 | Has he hands to labor? |
| 12606 | Has he held fast by the institutions of the country? |
| 12606 | Has he here stood on the ramparts, brandishing his glittering sword against assailants, and holding out a banner of defiance? |
| 12606 | Has he maintained his own charges? |
| 12606 | Has he proved what he alleged? |
| 12606 | Has he summoned the good and the wise around him? |
| 12606 | Has he sustained himself in his attack on the government, and on the history of the North, in the matter of the public lands? |
| 12606 | Has his influence been exerted to inspire respect for the Constitution, and to produce obedience to the laws? |
| 12606 | Has it any warrant in the practice of former times? |
| 12606 | Has it been resorted to in an hour of misfortune, calamity, or peril, to save the state? |
| 12606 | Has not that been our whole history? |
| 12606 | Has not this been as predicted? |
| 12606 | Has nullification, in its wildest flight, ever reached to an extravagance like that? |
| 12606 | Has the Senate a right_ to have an opinion_ in a case of this kind? |
| 12606 | Has the community lost all moral sense? |
| 12606 | Has the defendant proved where he was on that night? |
| 12606 | Has the gentleman found any thing by which he can make good his accusation? |
| 12606 | Has the government done nothing but prey upon them, and eat out their substance? |
| 12606 | Have gentlemen considered this? |
| 12606 | Have not the people of New York lately amended their constitution, so as to require, in certain legislative action, votes of two thirds? |
| 12606 | Have the gentleman''s State- rights opinions always kept him aloof from such unhallowed infringements of the Constitution? |
| 12606 | Have they any notion of our institutions, or of_ any_ free institutions? |
| 12606 | Have they any notion of popular government? |
| 12606 | Have they any thing to do with the resolution of the 28th of March? |
| 12606 | Have they flourished only by our neglect of them? |
| 12606 | Have they forgotten, all forgotten, and wholly abandoned even all pretence for specific appropriation? |
| 12606 | Have they looked at it? |
| 12606 | Have they no countenance at all in the Constitution itself? |
| 12606 | Have we more reliance on the patriotism, the firmness, of others, than on our own? |
| 12606 | Have we yet to fight it out to the utmost, as if nothing pacific had intervened? |
| 12606 | Have you ever read or known of folly equal to this? |
| 12606 | He believed the embargo unconstitutional, and so did others; but what then? |
| 12606 | He is asked,"Are you a Christian?" |
| 12606 | He is asked,"What is your religion?" |
| 12606 | He was fully aware that his end was near; and in answer to the question,''Can you now rest with firm faith upon the merits of your Divine Redeemer?'' |
| 12606 | He writes in a disguised hand; but could it happen that the same Grant should be in Salem that was at Belfast? |
| 12606 | Here they are; what answer does he give to them? |
| 12606 | His being there is a proof of his intent to aid and abet; else, why is he there? |
| 12606 | His construction gets us into it; how does he propose to get us out? |
| 12606 | Home, from what scene? |
| 12606 | How are these questions to be settled? |
| 12606 | How are they amidst the general depression? |
| 12606 | How are you going to diminish it? |
| 12606 | How can a State undo what the whole people have done? |
| 12606 | How can she absolve her citizens from their obedience to the laws of the United States? |
| 12606 | How can she annul their obligations and oaths? |
| 12606 | How can the agriculturist make his own iron? |
| 12606 | How can the members of her legislature renounce their own oaths? |
| 12606 | How can the ship- owner grow his own hemp? |
| 12606 | How can they allow her to be judge of her own obligations? |
| 12606 | How can we, how dare we, make a perfect dead letter of this part of the Constitution, which we have sworn to support? |
| 12606 | How can you have more proof than this? |
| 12606 | How comes the general government itself_ a party_? |
| 12606 | How could I be blamed for it? |
| 12606 | How could Leighton have made up this conversation? |
| 12606 | How could he give most effect to this statement? |
| 12606 | How could he have innocently known these facts? |
| 12606 | How could he have possibly known this, unless he had been there? |
| 12606 | How could it exist? |
| 12606 | How could that be judged of? |
| 12606 | How could this fact, or these facts, have been known to Palmer, unless Frank Knapp had brought the knowledge? |
| 12606 | How deep stained with blood, how reckless in crime, how deep in depravity may it be, and yet retain innocence? |
| 12606 | How deprive? |
| 12606 | How did Massachusetts deal with it? |
| 12606 | How did he at that time read and understand the Constitution? |
| 12606 | How did they conduct themselves on this occasion? |
| 12606 | How did they treat this charge; like honest men, or like guilty men? |
| 12606 | How do they know that? |
| 12606 | How do we know the use they intended to make of it, or the kind of aid that he was to afford by being there? |
| 12606 | How do you propose to defend us? |
| 12606 | How does he relieve us from this difficulty, upon any principle of his? |
| 12606 | How else are the secret designs of the wicked to be proved, but by their wicked companions, to whom they have disclosed them? |
| 12606 | How else, Sir, is it possible that uniformity can be preserved? |
| 12606 | How far are the rights of minorities there respected? |
| 12606 | How has it accomplished this great and essential end? |
| 12606 | How have they deserved it? |
| 12606 | How have they done in the schools of New England? |
| 12606 | How is each of the thirty States to defend itself? |
| 12606 | How is he to be punished or impeached if he colludes with any of these banks to embezzle the public money or defraud the government? |
| 12606 | How is it along the vast lakes and the mighty rivers of the North and West? |
| 12606 | How is it that the means of food, clothing, and shelter are now so much more cheaply and abundantly procured than formerly? |
| 12606 | How is it that they are able to meet, and in some measure overcome, universal competition? |
| 12606 | How is it to be done without the consent of the previous government? |
| 12606 | How is it to be done? |
| 12606 | How is that virtue to be inspired, and how is that intelligence to be communicated? |
| 12606 | How is the fact, that three fourths of the people are in favor of the new government, to be legally ascertained? |
| 12606 | How is the motive to be ascertained? |
| 12606 | How is this minority, how are these men, regarded? |
| 12606 | How is this to be accomplished? |
| 12606 | How is this witness able to fix the time at ten minutes past ten? |
| 12606 | How little is there in it, after all, that did not appear from other sources? |
| 12606 | How long is it since nobody voted for governor in New York without a freehold qualification? |
| 12606 | How original? |
| 12606 | How should these questions be disposed of? |
| 12606 | How was it in this most important particular? |
| 12606 | How, Sir, can a law be examined on any such ground? |
| 12606 | How, Sir, do the ship- owners and navigators accomplish this? |
| 12606 | How, Sir, were we to know that this appropriation"was in accordance with the views of the executive"? |
| 12606 | How, then, can a State secede? |
| 12606 | How, then, could this fact of the prisoner''s being in Brown Street be better proved? |
| 12606 | How, then, shall I escape? |
| 12606 | How, then, they would ask, do you propose to defend us? |
| 12606 | How? |
| 12606 | I am a countryman of Washington? |
| 12606 | I am not saying, What do we want of a force greater than we can supply? |
| 12606 | I appeal to you, Sir,( turning to Captain Benjamin Rich, who sat by him,) is not this true? |
| 12606 | I ask again, Sir, is this legal responsibility? |
| 12606 | I ask gentlemen who know, whether the harbor of Charleston, and the river of Savannah, be not crowded with ships seeking employment, and finding none? |
| 12606 | I ask him if the power is not found there, clearly and visibly found there? |
| 12606 | I ask, Sir, Is this republicanism? |
| 12606 | I ask, Sir, if there can be a more irregular or a more illegal transaction than this? |
| 12606 | I do not ask what remains to the few, but to the many? |
| 12606 | I may ask, What nation ever reached the like prosperity without promoting foreign trade? |
| 12606 | I must now beg to ask, Sir, Whence is this supposed right of the States derived? |
| 12606 | I pray to know who is to put beneath my feet a freer soil than that upon which I have stood ever since I have been in public life? |
| 12606 | I voted accordingly, and who doubts now the correctness of that vote? |
| 12606 | I would ask the gentlemen from New Orleans, if their magnificent Mississippi does not exhibit, for furlongs, a forest of masts? |
| 12606 | If Congress should abolish the whole department to- morrow, would the banks not expect the United States to replace this borrowed money? |
| 12606 | If I choose to remain in the President''s councils, do these gentlemen mean to say that I cease to be a Massachusetts Whig? |
| 12606 | If John Fries had produced an act of Pennsylvania, annulling the law of Congress, would it have helped his case? |
| 12606 | If Mr. Dorr had had a government, what became of it? |
| 12606 | If a dollar is received on that account, is not its only true destination into the general treasury of the government? |
| 12606 | If all this may be done with but slight pressure on the community, what course of conduct is to accomplish it? |
| 12606 | If he had nothing to do with the murder, no part to act, why not stay at home? |
| 12606 | If he had said,"When did you_ see_ Dick, Frank?" |
| 12606 | If he is a false man, why should he tell truths against himself? |
| 12606 | If he is the people''s representative, and as such may exercise power, without any other grant, what is the limit to that power? |
| 12606 | If he says he does it upon executive recommendation, where is his voucher? |
| 12606 | If in Brown Street, was he there by appointment? |
| 12606 | If it be not so, where is the limit, or who shall fix a boundary for the exercise of the power of the States? |
| 12606 | If it be not, will it ever become so, or what disputed question ever can be settled? |
| 12606 | If it ever came in, what put it out of existence? |
| 12606 | If it may have an opinion, how is that opinion to be ascertained but by resolution and vote? |
| 12606 | If it should, it will leave a great vacuum; and how shall that vacuum be filled? |
| 12606 | If men may not resist the Spanish Inquisition, and the Turkish cimeter, what is there to which humanity must not submit? |
| 12606 | If not for this purpose, what were they there for? |
| 12606 | If not, how could they sanction such a vote as this? |
| 12606 | If not, which is in the wrong? |
| 12606 | If one bring a bill to set aside a judgment, is that judgment itself a good plea in bar to the bill? |
| 12606 | If one should reason in that way, what would become of the distinguished honor of the author of the Declaration of Independence? |
| 12606 | If otherwise, who is there in the whole length and breadth of the land that will care for the consistency of the present incumbent of the office? |
| 12606 | If so, the second inquiry is, Was he so connected with the murder itself as that he is liable to be convicted as a_ principal_? |
| 12606 | If such be the state of our commerce and navigation, what is the condition of our home manufactures? |
| 12606 | If such well- known distinction exists, where are the proofs of it? |
| 12606 | If the Knapps and the Crowninshields, then, were not the conspirators, who were? |
| 12606 | If the President and Senate make peace, may one State, nevertheless, continue the war? |
| 12606 | If the States be parties, as States, what are their rights, and what their respective covenants and stipulations? |
| 12606 | If the case can not come before the courts, and if Congress be not trusted with its decision, who shall decide it? |
| 12606 | If the constitutional question were made to hinge on matters of this kind, how could it ever be decided? |
| 12606 | If the fact is out, why not meet it? |
| 12606 | If the parties chose it, why should we doubt about it? |
| 12606 | If the precise moment of actual time were to settle such a matter, it would be material to ask, Who shall settle the time? |
| 12606 | If there be no power to settle such questions, independent of either of the States, is not the whole Union a rope of sand? |
| 12606 | If they have, where is it? |
| 12606 | If they were not received in this way, why not explain how they came by them? |
| 12606 | If this be excitement, is it an unnatural or an improper excitement? |
| 12606 | If this be so, what is there which has since occurred to compromit this dignity? |
| 12606 | If this great_ Western Sun_ be struck out of the firmament, at what other fountain shall the lamp of liberty hereafter be lighted? |
| 12606 | If this was intended to be a compact or league, and the States to be parties to it, why was it not so said? |
| 12606 | If we adopt a system that withdraws capital from active employment, do we not diminish the rate of wages? |
| 12606 | If we curtail the general business of society, does not every laboring man find his condition grow daily worse? |
| 12606 | If we draw within the circle of our contemplation the mothers of a civilized nation, what do we see? |
| 12606 | If we fail, who shall venture the repetition? |
| 12606 | If we look back to the history of the commerce of this country in the early years of this government, what were our exports? |
| 12606 | If we postpone independence, do we mean to carry on, or to give up, the war? |
| 12606 | If we still refuse, what is to be done? |
| 12606 | If you find him there, can you doubt why he was there? |
| 12606 | If you will not try this plan, why not propose something else? |
| 12606 | If you"secede,"what do you"secede"from, and what do you"accede"to? |
| 12606 | If, then, the act of removing the Secretary be not the assumption of power which the resolution declares, in what is that assumption found? |
| 12606 | In his childhood and boyhood the Christian question,"Who is my neighbor?" |
| 12606 | In reading such couplets we are reminded of the noted local poet of New Hampshire( or was it Maine?) |
| 12606 | In such a case, under such circumstances, how did Massachusetts demean herself? |
| 12606 | In that very House of Commons of which the gentleman from South Carolina has spoken with such commendation, how was it received? |
| 12606 | In the name of the hundreds of thousands of our suffering fellow- citizens, I ask, for what reasonable end is this experiment to be tried? |
| 12606 | In what age, by what sect, where, when, by whom, has religious truth been excluded from the education of youth? |
| 12606 | In what condition has it placed us? |
| 12606 | In what estimation did they hold it at the time when this Constitution was adopted? |
| 12606 | Is a proved conspirator to murder innocent? |
| 12606 | Is dependence on government for bread no temptation to screen its abuses? |
| 12606 | Is dissolution the_ object_? |
| 12606 | Is every measure of this sort, for the relief of such abuses, to be rejected? |
| 12606 | Is force to be used? |
| 12606 | Is he bound to consider them both right? |
| 12606 | Is he not called a bloodhound on the track of the African negro? |
| 12606 | Is he out of office, or is he still in? |
| 12606 | Is he still in, then, or is he out? |
| 12606 | Is he to be blind, though visible danger approaches? |
| 12606 | Is he to be deaf, though sounds of peril fill the air? |
| 12606 | Is he to be dumb, while a thousand duties impel him to raise the cry of alarm? |
| 12606 | Is he to palter? |
| 12606 | Is his oath less stringent than theirs? |
| 12606 | Is it a law, or is it a nullity? |
| 12606 | Is it a measure of remedy, yielded to the importunate cries of an agitated and distressed nation? |
| 12606 | Is it either wise or safe? |
| 12606 | Is it guiding, controlling, giving the rule to commerce, as a subsisting thing or is it putting an end to it altogether? |
| 12606 | Is it not absolutely essential to the peace of the country that this power should exist somewhere? |
| 12606 | Is it not an idea perfectly familiar, definite, and well settled? |
| 12606 | Is it not doing strange violence to language to call a league or a compact between sovereign powers a_ government_? |
| 12606 | Is it not money justly due to the United States, and paid, because it is so due, for the advantage of holding the deposits? |
| 12606 | Is it not precisely_ objectio ejus, cujus dissolutio petitur_? |
| 12606 | Is it not probable that he was in Brown Street to concur in the murder? |
| 12606 | Is it not proper for us, at all times, is it not our duty, at this time, to come forth, and deny, and condemn, these monstrous principles? |
| 12606 | Is it not so with respect to Texas? |
| 12606 | Is it not the acknowledgment of a wish and object to create political strength by uniting political opinions geographically? |
| 12606 | Is it not the preaching of ministers of the Gospel that has evangelized the more civilized part of the world? |
| 12606 | Is it not to be taken for granted, that a man seeks to accomplish his own purposes? |
| 12606 | Is it not true that the vote of the Liberty party taken from Mr. Clay''s vote in the State of New York made Mr. Polk President? |
| 12606 | Is it on the bank power? |
| 12606 | Is it possible, then, for this court, or for the court below, to know any thing of it? |
| 12606 | Is it the creature of the State legislatures, or the creature of the people? |
| 12606 | Is money in New Orleans now as good, or nearly so, as money in New York? |
| 12606 | Is not Mr. Colman''s testimony credible, natural, and proper? |
| 12606 | Is not Washington libelled and abused? |
| 12606 | Is not all expectation of advantage centred in a sort of vague hope, that change may produce relief? |
| 12606 | Is not all this shocking? |
| 12606 | Is not the Constitution of the United States libelled and abused? |
| 12606 | Is not the teaching of laymen as sectarian as the preaching of clergymen? |
| 12606 | Is not the whole country looking, with the utmost anxiety, to what may be the result of these threatened courses? |
| 12606 | Is not this a contract? |
| 12606 | Is not this anarchy, as well as revolution? |
| 12606 | Is not this conclusive, if not explained? |
| 12606 | Is not this enormous? |
| 12606 | Is not this revolution? |
| 12606 | Is not this revolutionary? |
| 12606 | Is not this the plain result? |
| 12606 | Is not this the very essence of local feeling and local regard? |
| 12606 | Is nullification at all more disorganizing than that? |
| 12606 | Is one State to sit sole arbitress? |
| 12606 | Is property more secure, or industry more certain of its reward? |
| 12606 | Is success so probable as to justify it? |
| 12606 | Is that penalty, or what other penalty, to be incurred by resistance to visit in time of peace? |
| 12606 | Is that_ our_ liberty? |
| 12606 | Is the currency_ uniform_ now? |
| 12606 | Is the government of the State, on that account, not a popular government? |
| 12606 | Is the obligation of that contract created by the laws of that State, or does it subsist independent of those laws? |
| 12606 | Is the voice of one State conclusive? |
| 12606 | Is the whole world expected to acquiesce in principles which entirely subvert the independence of nations? |
| 12606 | Is there a slave, or will there ever be one, in either of those territories? |
| 12606 | Is there any forty- shilling attorney here to make a question of it? |
| 12606 | Is there any hope that the national sentiment will recover its accustomed tone, and restore to the government a just and efficient administration? |
| 12606 | Is there any mistake about that? |
| 12606 | Is there less bank paper in circulation? |
| 12606 | Is there less fear of a general catastrophe? |
| 12606 | Is there nobody ready to make a movement in this matter? |
| 12606 | Is there nothing to be said on the other side in relation to inequality? |
| 12606 | Is this a government of laws? |
| 12606 | Is this doctrine, as has been alleged, of Eastern origin? |
| 12606 | Is this hugging them as a favorite treasure? |
| 12606 | Is this infliction of capital punishment constitutional? |
| 12606 | Is this just or fair? |
| 12606 | Is this language which describes the formation of a compact between States? |
| 12606 | Is this legal responsibility? |
| 12606 | Is this logical? |
| 12606 | Is this power of organization common among orators? |
| 12606 | Is this the true nature of a government with written laws and limited powers? |
| 12606 | Is this true? |
| 12606 | It has also been asked,"Can not Mr. Girard be allowed to have his own will, to devise his property according to his own desire?" |
| 12606 | It is all there, and what is it? |
| 12606 | It is certain, also, that he had more knowledge of the position of the club than this; else how could he have placed his hand on it so readily? |
| 12606 | It is in the condition of a man that buys more than he sells; and how can such a traffic be maintained without ruin? |
| 12606 | It is obvious, is it not, Sir? |
| 12606 | It is true that at the Revolution, when all government was immediately dissolved, the people got together, and what did they do? |
| 12606 | It may be asked, If a vessel may not be called on to show her papers, why does she carry papers? |
| 12606 | It may now be asked, perhaps, whether the expression of our own sympathy, and that of the country, may do them good? |
| 12606 | It may, in the next place, be asked, perhaps, Supposing all this to be true, what can_ we_ do? |
| 12606 | It says, then, does it not? |
| 12606 | Let me ask, Three or four years ago, where was he THEN? |
| 12606 | March off from what? |
| 12606 | March off from whom? |
| 12606 | May not the twenty- three entertain an opinion as well as the twenty- fourth? |
| 12606 | May not these Europeans ask us how long it may be before the national councils will repudiate public obligations? |
| 12606 | May they not hope, without presumption, to preserve a greater zeal for piety and public devotion than we have alone? |
| 12606 | May we fly at the approach of danger? |
| 12606 | May we not crave some mercy, under favor and protection of the gentleman''s own authority? |
| 12606 | Mr. President, take away this credit, and what remains? |
| 12606 | Mr. President, what is the result of this? |
| 12606 | Mr. Webster entered his carriage and proceeded on his journey; but Goodridge,--who has since ever heard of him? |
| 12606 | Must Congress also furnish all means of commerce? |
| 12606 | Must I not have been absolutely malicious, if I could have thrust myself forward, to destroy sensations thus pleasing? |
| 12606 | Must it furnish weights and scales and steelyards? |
| 12606 | Must not every man come to the conclusion, that these persons thus seen in Brown Street were the murderers? |
| 12606 | Need I say, that that doubt respects the permanency of our Union? |
| 12606 | No doubt she may be called on to show her papers; but the question is, Where, when, and by whom? |
| 12606 | No doubt the executive power is vested in the President; but what and how much executive power, and how limited? |
| 12606 | Now how did this question arise? |
| 12606 | Now the question is,_ By what means_ is this ascertainment to be effected? |
| 12606 | Now what State ever altered its constitution in any other mode? |
| 12606 | Now what is here stipulated, enacted, and secured? |
| 12606 | Now, Gentlemen, what infliction does the State of Mississippi suffer under? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, I ask again, What becomes of this power, if the authority of precedent be taken away? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, again, I ask the gentleman, What is to be done? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, does our legislation, under the Constitution, furnish any precedent for all this? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, how came this? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, how has the gentleman met this? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, how is it possible that this vast amount can be collected in so short a period without suffering, by any management whatever? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, is not this the exact opposite of the doctrine of the gentleman from South Carolina? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, is not this the truth of the whole matter? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, is the exercise of this power of discrimination plainly and palpably unconstitutional? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, since he claims the right to interpret the Constitution as he pleases, how can he deny the same right to them? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, what contradiction does the gentleman find to this sentiment in the speech of 1825? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, what is the common application of these words? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, what is the remedy for existing evils? |
| 12606 | Now, Sir, where does the executive find its authority, in or through any department, to borrow money without authority of Congress? |
| 12606 | Now, are not laymen equally sectarian in their views with clergymen? |
| 12606 | Now, can any man be wild enough to make any inference from this as to the gain or loss of our trade with Holland for that year? |
| 12606 | Now, does not this tend to subvert all belief in the utility of teaching the Christian religion to youth at all? |
| 12606 | Now, how could individual States assert a right of concurrent legislation, in a case of this sort, without manifest encroachment and confusion? |
| 12606 | Now, how was it to be dealt with? |
| 12606 | Now, if he knows the time, and went home afterwards, and does not excuse himself, is not this an admission that he had a hand in this murder? |
| 12606 | Now, is there reasonable doubt that Mr. Webster did see him there that night? |
| 12606 | Now, is this regulating commerce, or destroying it? |
| 12606 | Now, supposing this to be the_ real_, and not merely, as it is, the nominal, par of exchange between us and England, what would it prove? |
| 12606 | Now, what are the undoubted facts? |
| 12606 | Now, what does the testimony of these four young men amount to? |
| 12606 | Now, what is the contingency? |
| 12606 | Now, what is the import of this, but that Congress is to give the rule, to establish the system, to exercise the control over the subject? |
| 12606 | Now, what is the inevitable consequence of this mode of reasoning? |
| 12606 | Now, what is the utility or the necessity of this? |
| 12606 | Now, what is this but substantially a tonnage duty, under the law of the State? |
| 12606 | Now, what will be the relation between these Senators and the people they represent, or the States from which they come? |
| 12606 | Now, what, in the mean time, had become of Mr. Dorr''s government? |
| 12606 | Of the Bank of the United States, indeed, we may free ourselves readily; but how are we to annihilate the State banks? |
| 12606 | Of what benefit to anybody? |
| 12606 | Of what do we deprive them? |
| 12606 | Of what nature are all rights of suffrage? |
| 12606 | On these pleadings the substantial question is raised, Are these laws such as the legislature of New York has a right to pass? |
| 12606 | On what other subjects did men differ? |
| 12606 | On whose responsibility was it adopted? |
| 12606 | Or are gentlemen ready to establish the practice, as an example for the benefit of those who are to come after us? |
| 12606 | Or did they take away their constitution, laws, and liberties, by their own sovereign act? |
| 12606 | Or disappointment, rather, and sore mortification,--dust and ashes, the common fate of vaulting ambition overleaping itself? |
| 12606 | Or does it make any difference, whether the receipts go directly into her own treasury, or into the hands of those to whom she has made the grant? |
| 12606 | Or how should he answer him who dwells perpetually on local interests, and fans every kindling flame of local prejudice? |
| 12606 | Or may each of the States, as well as the general government, claim this right of ultimate decision? |
| 12606 | Or through what period has your prosperity been greater, or your peace and happiness better secured? |
| 12606 | Or who ever heard, before, that a gift to a college, or a hospital, or an asylum, was, in reality, nothing but a gift to the State? |
| 12606 | Or, if one branch appears to encroach on the rights of the other two, have these two no power of remonstrance, complaint, or resistance? |
| 12606 | Or, if she may judge of her obligations, may they not judge of their rights also? |
| 12606 | Or, if they admit it, will they tell us how those who framed the Constitution fell, thus early, into this great mistake about its meaning? |
| 12606 | Or, if we were to see the President issuing commissions to office to persons who had never been nominated to the Senate, are we not to remonstrate? |
| 12606 | Or, in other words, what is the value of a protest on one side, balanced by an exactly equivalent protest on the other? |
| 12606 | Pennsylvania and New York would have it so; and what were we to do? |
| 12606 | Permanent power? |
| 12606 | Pope says, you know,"Ask where''s the North? |
| 12606 | Pray, Sir, in what school is such reasoning as this taught? |
| 12606 | Pray, what does all this mean? |
| 12606 | Pray, what is the evidence which every gentleman must have obtained on this subject, from information sought by himself or communicated by others? |
| 12606 | Quem enim alium appellem? |
| 12606 | Responsible? |
| 12606 | Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door, And keep him out; or shall we let him in, And see if we can get him out again?" |
| 12606 | Shall it be done by public authority, or shall every man observe the tick of his own watch? |
| 12606 | Shall the decisions be decisions of peace, or decisions of war? |
| 12606 | Shall they be decided by law, or by force? |
| 12606 | Shall we admit ourselves incompetent to carry on the government, so as to be satisfactory to the whole country? |
| 12606 | Shall we admit that there has so little descended to us of the wisdom and prudence of our fathers? |
| 12606 | Shall we take peace without new States, or refuse peace without new States? |
| 12606 | Should not the opinions of men high in office, and candidates for re- election, be known on this, as on other important public questions? |
| 12606 | Should we ship it, by cargoes, every day, from New York to New Orleans, and from New Orleans back to New York? |
| 12606 | Sir, I ask once more, Is a great and intelligent community to endure patiently all sorts of suffering for fantasies like these? |
| 12606 | Sir, as these secessions go on, one after another, what is to constitute the United States? |
| 12606 | Sir, did I state this as matter of reproach? |
| 12606 | Sir, does he suppose it in his power to exhibit a Carolina name so bright as to produce envy in my bosom? |
| 12606 | Sir, does political consistency consist in always giving negative votes? |
| 12606 | Sir, how would this sort of argument apply to other cases? |
| 12606 | Sir, is not the end to which all this leads us obvious? |
| 12606 | Sir, we believed the embargo unconstitutional; but still that was matter of opinion, and who was to decide it? |
| 12606 | Sir, we take New Mexico and California; who is weak enough to suppose that there is an end? |
| 12606 | Sir, what can such men want? |
| 12606 | Sir, when did the power of the States, or indeed of any government, go to such an extent as that? |
| 12606 | So our learned opponents say,"Change places, and,_ handy- dandy_, which is the governor and which the rebel?" |
| 12606 | So they ought; but, Gentlemen, what does all this amount to? |
| 12606 | Substantial good? |
| 12606 | Suppose he had been in the house, suppose he had followed the perpetrator to the chamber, what could he have done? |
| 12606 | Suppose he were to declare war against a foreign power, and put the army and the fleet in action; are we still to be silent? |
| 12606 | Suppose that a considerable number of Whigs secede from the Whig party, and support a candidate of this new party, what will be the result? |
| 12606 | Suppose that population should flow into Texas, where will it go? |
| 12606 | Suppose the Constitution to be a compact, yet here are its terms; and how does the gentleman get rid of them? |
| 12606 | Suppose the parties to have contemplated this act, what did they contemplate? |
| 12606 | Suppose the parties, after the contract, to remove to another State, do they carry the law with them as part of their contract? |
| 12606 | Suppose this not to be the result, what then? |
| 12606 | Suppose this were so; why should_ he_ therefore abuse New England? |
| 12606 | Suppose we should see him borrowing money on the credit of the United States; are we yet to wait for impeachment? |
| 12606 | Suppose, Sir, that we should see him enlisting troops and raising an army, can we say nothing, and do nothing? |
| 12606 | THEIR eyeballs were seared( was it not so, Sir?) |
| 12606 | Take away this system of credit, and then tell me what is left for labor and industry, but mere manual toil and daily drudgery? |
| 12606 | That is true; but would the judge admit our plea? |
| 12606 | That may all be so; but if the tribunal should not happen to be of that opinion, shall we swing for it? |
| 12606 | That she had no occasion, in reference to her own interest, or from a regard to her own welfare, to take up arms in the Revolutionary contest? |
| 12606 | That would be very imposing; but what then? |
| 12606 | The Greeks have declared the Turkish coasts in a state of blockade; may we not inform ourselves whether this blockade be_ nominal_ or_ real_? |
| 12606 | The President being of opinion, therefore, that the appropriation was necessary and proper, how is it that it was not recommended to Congress? |
| 12606 | The Protest asserts an absolute right to remove all persons from office at pleasure; and for what reason? |
| 12606 | The State legislatures? |
| 12606 | The contest was, Who should have this privilege? |
| 12606 | The disputes about the meaning of words and passages; you will admit that? |
| 12606 | The fabricated letters from Knapp to the committee and to Mr. White, are they nothing but stuff? |
| 12606 | The first question then is, What does it say of itself? |
| 12606 | The great question is, Whose prerogative is it to decide on the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the laws? |
| 12606 | The great question, therefore, to be decided is, To which class of corporations do colleges thus founded belong? |
| 12606 | The honorable gentleman asks, What then is the limit? |
| 12606 | The language of Colonel Barre, in reply to this, was:"They planted by your care? |
| 12606 | The law has nothing to do with the contract till it be broken; how, then, can it be said to form a part of the contract itself? |
| 12606 | The letter from Palmer at Belfast, is that no more than flimsy stuff? |
| 12606 | The only question is, Shall it be a coercion of law, or a coercion of arms? |
| 12606 | The people have ordained a Constitution; can they reject it without revolution? |
| 12606 | The power of appointment was not left to be so implied; why, then, should the power of removal have been so left? |
| 12606 | The question for you to consider is, Did the defendant go into Brown Street in aid of this murder? |
| 12606 | The question is not, Are they the fittest means, the best means? |
| 12606 | The question still is, Are the money, time, and labor well laid out in these cases? |
| 12606 | The question was put, according to the form then practised,"Shall these words stand as a part of the plan?" |
| 12606 | The reply would be, I think, not impertinent,"Who made you a judge over another''s servants? |
| 12606 | The second and the material inquiry is, Was the prisoner present at the murder, aiding and abetting therein? |
| 12606 | The time had come when the people wished to know the decision of the administration on the question of the bank? |
| 12606 | The"one thousand dollars that was to be paid,"--where could he have obtained this knowledge? |
| 12606 | Their"property"? |
| 12606 | These pretended reforms, these extraordinary exercises of power from an extraordinary zeal for the good of the people, what have they brought us to? |
| 12606 | They had heard that they were suspected; how could they have heard this, unless it were from the whisperings of their own consciences? |
| 12606 | They had not conceived the administration to be capable of such a thing; and yet they said, What can_ we_ do? |
| 12606 | They have established a form of government; can they overthrow it without revolution? |
| 12606 | This free form of government, this popular assembly, the common council held for the common good,--where have we contemplated its earliest models? |
| 12606 | This is denied; and here arises the great practical question,_ Who is to construe finally the Constitution of the United States_? |
| 12606 | This is the usual course of Congress on such subjects; and why should it be departed from? |
| 12606 | This part of the message would have been referred to the committee on finance; but what could they say? |
| 12606 | Those who murdered Banquo, what did they win by it? |
| 12606 | To any proceeding to which the President was party? |
| 12606 | To any proceeding to which the Senate was party? |
| 12606 | To the history of what proceedings? |
| 12606 | To those unfortunate individuals, doomed to the everlasting bondage of debt, what is it that we have free institutions of government? |
| 12606 | To what principles, to what interests, are these facts important? |
| 12606 | To whom lies the last appeal? |
| 12606 | Truly, Sir, is not this a little too hard? |
| 12606 | Under these circumstances, does not every man''s heart tell him that he has a duty to discharge? |
| 12606 | Very well, Sir, supposing me to be accurately reported in that expression, what is the contradiction? |
| 12606 | Was I not a Northern man? |
| 12606 | Was Malta hers? |
| 12606 | Was ever any thing more reasonable? |
| 12606 | Was he in a situation to speak of time with precision? |
| 12606 | Was her great Australian empire hers? |
| 12606 | Was it Mirabeau, Mr. President, or some other master of the human passions, who has told us that words are things? |
| 12606 | Was it a thing to be slept upon or forgotten? |
| 12606 | Was it not much better and kinder, both to sleep upon them myself, and to allow others also the pleasure of sleeping upon them? |
| 12606 | Was it unduly detained here, so that the House was obliged afterwards to act upon it suddenly? |
| 12606 | Was not that exactly the case of passing a law to ascertain the will of the people in a new exigency? |
| 12606 | Was not that true? |
| 12606 | Was not the doctrine there held this,--that the_ sovereigns_ should say what changes shall be made? |
| 12606 | Was that the doctrine of Laybach? |
| 12606 | Was the southern extremity of Africa, was the Cape of Good Hope, hers? |
| 12606 | Was_ he_ likely to know the intentions of the Convention and the people? |
| 12606 | Was_ he_ likely to understand the Constitution? |
| 12606 | We all agree that the Constitution is the supreme law; but who shall interpret that law? |
| 12606 | We are asked, What nations have ever attained eminent prosperity without encouraging manufactures? |
| 12606 | We have expended, as everybody knows, large treasures in the prosecution of the war; and now what is to constitute this indemnity? |
| 12606 | We know the importance of a firm and intelligent judiciary; but how shall we secure the continuance of a firm and intelligent judiciary? |
| 12606 | Well, Sir, and now what does the gentleman make out against me in relation to the tariff? |
| 12606 | Well, Sir, in what did we differ? |
| 12606 | Well, Sir, what is now the demand on the part of our Southern friends? |
| 12606 | Well, Sir, what is the amount of that? |
| 12606 | Well, is he to tamper with that? |
| 12606 | Well, what was the object of those meetings? |
| 12606 | Well, what was the result? |
| 12606 | Were not the Russian and Polish merchants purchasers there to a great amount? |
| 12606 | Were the Ionian Islands hers? |
| 12606 | Were the settlers in the West driven thither by our oppression? |
| 12606 | Were the whole of her vast possessions in India hers? |
| 12606 | Were they ever lower, or even so low? |
| 12606 | Were they to be excluded from the new government because they tolerated the institution of slavery? |
| 12606 | Were we to pick clean teeth on a constitutional doubt which a majority in the councils of the nation had overruled? |
| 12606 | Were we to stand aloof from the occupations which others were pursuing around us? |
| 12606 | What States are to secede? |
| 12606 | What aid is to be rendered? |
| 12606 | What alteration has ever been brought in, put in, forced in, or got in anyhow, by resolutions of mass meetings, and then by applying force? |
| 12606 | What am I to be? |
| 12606 | What am I? |
| 12606 | What amount of population have we in comparison with our extent of soil, what amount of capital, and labor at what price? |
| 12606 | What are its boundaries? |
| 12606 | What are the oppressions experienced under the Union, calling for measures which thus threaten to sever and destroy it? |
| 12606 | What are the probabilities as to the time of the murder? |
| 12606 | What are the_ facts_ in relation to this presence? |
| 12606 | What are their crimes, that they hide themselves in darkness? |
| 12606 | What are they? |
| 12606 | What are we to think of a constitutional argument which deals in this way with historical facts? |
| 12606 | What class of creditors desire it? |
| 12606 | What commission has he received? |
| 12606 | What consideration of public good demands it? |
| 12606 | What could be expected of such a party, unless animated by a spirit of conciliation and harmony, of union and sympathy? |
| 12606 | What could be his motive? |
| 12606 | What could be his motive? |
| 12606 | What could come nearer to a solemn farce, than to bind a man by oath, and still leave him to be his own interpreter of his own obligation? |
| 12606 | What could ensue from such a manner of conducting the public business, but quarrel, confusion, and conflict? |
| 12606 | What could mislead this witness at the time? |
| 12606 | What course did he adopt to effect this? |
| 12606 | What do I contend for? |
| 12606 | What do gentlemen mean by it? |
| 12606 | What do they mean by"property"? |
| 12606 | What do they mean? |
| 12606 | What do they say? |
| 12606 | What do we mean by our neutral policy? |
| 12606 | What do we propose to do, then, with these thirty regiments which it is designed to throw into Mexico? |
| 12606 | What do we propose? |
| 12606 | What do you get that from? |
| 12606 | What do_ we_ not owe to the cause of civil and religious liberty? |
| 12606 | What does he mean by being"responsible"? |
| 12606 | What does he propose? |
| 12606 | What does it appear that the members of this government did? |
| 12606 | What does it mean? |
| 12606 | What does it purport to be? |
| 12606 | What does the law mean, when it says, that, in order to charge him as a principal,"he must be present aiding and abetting in the murder"? |
| 12606 | What does this bill propose for its relief? |
| 12606 | What does this mean? |
| 12606 | What does this offer call on your honors to do? |
| 12606 | What else can they do, with not enough of absolute capital, and with no credit? |
| 12606 | What enormous evil is to be remedied by all this inconvenience and all this suffering? |
| 12606 | What fair foundation is there for this remark? |
| 12606 | What follows? |
| 12606 | What great and good object, worth so much cost, is it to accomplish? |
| 12606 | What great calamity is to be averted? |
| 12606 | What had Richard Crowninshield to do at Wenham, with Joseph, unless it were this business? |
| 12606 | What has Germany done, learned Germany, more full of ancient lore than all the world beside? |
| 12606 | What has Italy done? |
| 12606 | What has been, and what is to be, Old England? |
| 12606 | What has been, what is, and what may be, in the providence of God,_ New_ England, with her neighbors and associates? |
| 12606 | What has given us this just pride? |
| 12606 | What has happened since? |
| 12606 | What has he done? |
| 12606 | What has it left undone, which any government could do, for the whole country? |
| 12606 | What has placed us thus high? |
| 12606 | What has reform done? |
| 12606 | What has the great cry for hard money accomplished? |
| 12606 | What have they done who dwell on the spot where Cicero lived? |
| 12606 | What hinders Vermont from considering herself equally the representative of the public, and from resuming her grants, at her own pleasure? |
| 12606 | What if Texan troops, assisted by thousands of volunteers from the disaffected States, had gone to New Mexico, and had been defeated and turned back? |
| 12606 | What inconsistency does he show? |
| 12606 | What inconsistency in word or doctrine has he been able to detect? |
| 12606 | What induces this armed pursuit, and this arrest of fugitives, of all ages and both sexes? |
| 12606 | What is a_ constitution_? |
| 12606 | What is easier than to throw off a cloak, and again put it on? |
| 12606 | What is even this Constitution itself to them, in its actual operation, and as we now administer it? |
| 12606 | What is innocence? |
| 12606 | What is it proposed to do? |
| 12606 | What is it that binds him? |
| 12606 | What is it that is to be regulated? |
| 12606 | What is it that makes us the object of the highest respect, or the most suspicious jealousy, to foreign states? |
| 12606 | What is it that most enables us to take high relative rank among the nations? |
| 12606 | What is it that we have public and popular assemblies? |
| 12606 | What is it to him but a wide- spread prospect of suffering, anguish, and death? |
| 12606 | What is its aspect to them, but an aspect of stern, implacable severity? |
| 12606 | What is likely to occur? |
| 12606 | What is meant by"_ appropriations_"? |
| 12606 | What is our condition under its influence, at the very moment when some talk of arresting its power and breaking its unity? |
| 12606 | What is our reliance? |
| 12606 | What is revolution? |
| 12606 | What is such a state of things but a mere connection during pleasure, or, to use the phraseology of the times,_ during feeling_? |
| 12606 | What is that act? |
| 12606 | What is that glorious recollection, which thrills through his frame, and suffuses his eyes? |
| 12606 | What is the alternative presented to the Whigs of Massachusetts? |
| 12606 | What is the consequence? |
| 12606 | What is the course of policy suited to our actual condition? |
| 12606 | What is the difference between unlettered laymen and lettered clergymen in this respect? |
| 12606 | What is the effect of such a nomination? |
| 12606 | What is the end of all government? |
| 12606 | What is the inevitable tendency of such an education as is here prescribed? |
| 12606 | What is there in New Mexico that could, by any possibility, induce anybody to go there with slaves? |
| 12606 | What is there now, in the existing state of things, to separate Carolina from_ Old_, more, or rather, than from_ New_ England? |
| 12606 | What is there to recommend a construction which leads to a result like this? |
| 12606 | What is there which either his friends, or the friends of the country, could wish to have been otherwise? |
| 12606 | What is there, Sir, in all this, for the gentleman to complain of? |
| 12606 | What is this but anarchy? |
| 12606 | What is to be the limit to such a principle, or to the practice growing out of it? |
| 12606 | What is to become of the army? |
| 12606 | What is to become of the navy? |
| 12606 | What is to become of the public lands? |
| 12606 | What is to become of them in this separation? |
| 12606 | What is to remain American? |
| 12606 | What laurels does he gather in this part of Africa? |
| 12606 | What law was passed? |
| 12606 | What model or example had the framers of the Constitution in their minds, when they spoke of"executive power"? |
| 12606 | What oath does he take? |
| 12606 | What occasion had he to call himself to an account? |
| 12606 | What oppression prostrates her strength or destroys her happiness? |
| 12606 | What other circulation or medium of payment is to be adopted in the place of the bills of the bank? |
| 12606 | What other orb shall emit a ray to glimmer, even, on the darkness of the world? |
| 12606 | What other thirty millions are to supply the place of these thirty millions now to be called in? |
| 12606 | What page in your history, or in the history of any one of you, is brighter than those which have been recorded since the Union was formed? |
| 12606 | What part is it? |
| 12606 | What precise meaning, then, does he attach to the term_ constitutional_? |
| 12606 | What right has he to send a message to either house of Congress telling its members that they disobey the will of their constituents? |
| 12606 | What see we to- day in the agitations on the other side of the Atlantic? |
| 12606 | What service could he have rendered, if there? |
| 12606 | What shall it be? |
| 12606 | What should hinder us from exercising our own judgments upon these provisions, singly and severally? |
| 12606 | What should hinder? |
| 12606 | What should stay our hands from this good work? |
| 12606 | What sort of concurrent powers are these, which can not exist together? |
| 12606 | What then had become of Mr. Dorr''s government? |
| 12606 | What then happened in the State of Rhode Island? |
| 12606 | What then was to be done, as far as Texas was concerned? |
| 12606 | What then? |
| 12606 | What then? |
| 12606 | What thing was done for his benefit? |
| 12606 | What was I ever? |
| 12606 | What was done on the receipt of the letter from Maine? |
| 12606 | What was the defendant''s object in his private conversation with Burns? |
| 12606 | What was the liberty of Spain, or Gaul, or Germany, or Britain, in the days of Rome? |
| 12606 | What was their purpose? |
| 12606 | What were then his rules of construction and interpretation? |
| 12606 | What will be his course of remedy? |
| 12606 | What will guard our cities from tribute, our merchant- vessels and our navy- yards from conflagration? |
| 12606 | What would be the natural result in such a case? |
| 12606 | What would become of Missouri? |
| 12606 | What would become of all that now renders the social circle lovely and beloved? |
| 12606 | What would become of society itself? |
| 12606 | What would become of their morals, their character, their purity of heart and life, their hope for time and eternity? |
| 12606 | What would have been the state of this country, now, at this moment, if these laws had not been passed? |
| 12606 | What would you get for shares? |
| 12606 | What writers of authority on public law, what adjudications in courts of admiralty, what public treaties, recognize it? |
| 12606 | What, Sir, are these causes? |
| 12606 | What, Sir, were other leading sentiments or leading measures of that day? |
| 12606 | What, in any case, but sovereign pleasure, is to decide whether the example be good or bad? |
| 12606 | What, indeed, are the general indications of the state of the country? |
| 12606 | What, then, do gentlemen wish? |
| 12606 | What, then, is the attempt of our adversaries? |
| 12606 | What, then, is the state of English opinion? |
| 12606 | What, then, is the true and peculiar principle of the American Revolution, and of the systems of government which it has confirmed and established? |
| 12606 | What, then, shall we do? |
| 12606 | What, then, shall we do? |
| 12606 | What, then, the question recurs, remains for us? |
| 12606 | What, then, was intended by"the executive power"? |
| 12606 | What, then, was the state of things in 1850? |
| 12606 | What, then, was this conspiracy? |
| 12606 | What, then, were we to do? |
| 12606 | What_ is_ executive power? |
| 12606 | Wheatland does not recollect the questions or answers, but recollects his reply; which was,"Is not this_ premature_? |
| 12606 | When did he announce himself a State- rights man? |
| 12606 | When did he ever go down to low- water mark, to make an ousting of tide- waiters? |
| 12606 | When did he ever take away the daily bread of weighers, and gaugers, and measurers? |
| 12606 | When did he make known his adhesion to the doctrines of the State- rights party? |
| 12606 | When has it happened that history has had so much to record, in the same term of years, as since the 17th of June, 1775? |
| 12606 | When has labor been rewarded, I do not say with a larger, but with a more certain success? |
| 12606 | When has there been a time in which the means of living have been more accessible and more abundant? |
| 12606 | When have they deserved it? |
| 12606 | When he has planned a murder, and is present at its execution, is he there to forward or to thwart his own design? |
| 12606 | When he says there was no confession, what could he expect to bear witness of? |
| 12606 | When or how could the prisoners have been tried without a special session? |
| 12606 | When the question is asked, What will be their constitution? |
| 12606 | When the traveller pauses on the plain of Marathon, what are the emotions which most strongly agitate his breast? |
| 12606 | When the treasury experiment was first announced, who supported, and who opposed it? |
| 12606 | When there is a cause so near at hand, why wander into conjecture for an explanation? |
| 12606 | When war is declared by a law of Congress, can a single State nullify that law, and remain at peace? |
| 12606 | When we give our money_ for any military purpose whatever_, what remains to be done? |
| 12606 | When we shall have nullified the present Constitution, what are we to receive in its place? |
| 12606 | When will that be? |
| 12606 | When would persons, with a knowledge of these facts, be most likely to approach him? |
| 12606 | When, Sir, did any English minister, Whig or Tory, ever make such an inquest? |
| 12606 | When, before this instance, have the States granted monopolies? |
| 12606 | When, until now, have they interfered with the navigation of the country? |
| 12606 | Whence are their diplomas? |
| 12606 | Whence do such contracts derive their obligation, if not from universal law? |
| 12606 | Whence, then, are the means to come for paying this debt? |
| 12606 | Whence, then, is the power derived to the President? |
| 12606 | Where can it exist, better than where it now does exist? |
| 12606 | Where can they go to learn the truth, to reverence the Sabbath? |
| 12606 | Where do they find the power to interfere with the laws of the Union? |
| 12606 | Where do they mean to place me? |
| 12606 | Where do we now stand? |
| 12606 | Where has the improvement brought it? |
| 12606 | Where have they deserved it? |
| 12606 | Where is he? |
| 12606 | Where is she now? |
| 12606 | Where is the difference of the cases, upon principle? |
| 12606 | Where is the eagle still to tower? |
| 12606 | Where is the flag of the republic to remain? |
| 12606 | Where is the ground of the gentleman''s triumph? |
| 12606 | Where is the inconsistency? |
| 12606 | Where is the line to be drawn, between acting, and omitting to act? |
| 12606 | Where is the line to be drawn? |
| 12606 | Where is the proof of this? |
| 12606 | Where shall the power of judging, in cases of alleged interference, be lodged? |
| 12606 | Where sooner than here, where louder than here, may we expect a patriotic voice to be raised, when the union of the States is threatened? |
| 12606 | Where was Mr. Van Buren then? |
| 12606 | Where was the constitutional authority for this? |
| 12606 | Where will they end? |
| 12606 | Where will those who oppose a coercion of law come out? |
| 12606 | Where would such strides of power stop? |
| 12606 | Where, Sir, should we put it, and what should we do with it? |
| 12606 | Where, but here, and in one other place, are they likely to be resisted? |
| 12606 | Where, then, are these little children to go? |
| 12606 | Where, then, are we to stop, or what limit is proposed to us? |
| 12606 | Where, then, is the authority for saying that the President is the_ direct representative of the people_? |
| 12606 | Which side are they to fall? |
| 12606 | Which way do you think his State- rights doctrine led him? |
| 12606 | Who are they that profit by the present state of things? |
| 12606 | Who better calculated to judge of these things than the murderer himself? |
| 12606 | Who can defend opinions which lead to such results? |
| 12606 | Who can derive any authority from acts declared to be criminal? |
| 12606 | Who can estimate the amount, or the value, of the augmentation of the commerce of the world that has resulted from America? |
| 12606 | Who can find substantial fault with its operation or its results? |
| 12606 | Who can make this comparison, or contemplate this spectacle, without delight and a feeling of just pride? |
| 12606 | Who can tell, from any thing yet before the committee, whether the proposed duty be too high or too low on any one article? |
| 12606 | Who concurred in his appointment? |
| 12606 | Who did he suppose was to decide that question? |
| 12606 | Who doubted that these august sovereigns would treat each other with justice, and rule their own subjects in mercy? |
| 12606 | Who ever appointed a legislature to administer his charity? |
| 12606 | Who ever endowed the public? |
| 12606 | Who for a moment can read these letters and doubt of Joseph Knapp''s guilt? |
| 12606 | Who fulfil the public treaties? |
| 12606 | Who govern this District and the Territories? |
| 12606 | Who has authorized these learned doctors of Troppau to establish new articles in this code? |
| 12606 | Who is Mr. Colman? |
| 12606 | Who is he that thus charges them with the insanity, or the recklessness, of putting the lamb beneath the lion''s paw? |
| 12606 | Who is so foolish, I beg everybody''s pardon, as to expect to see any such thing? |
| 12606 | Who is there prepared with a greater or a better example? |
| 12606 | Who is there that will deny this? |
| 12606 | Who is there who would not cover his face for very shame? |
| 12606 | Who is to decide that question? |
| 12606 | Who is to judge between the people and the government? |
| 12606 | Who is to judge of it? |
| 12606 | Who knows, or who hears, there of your proud State, or of my proud State? |
| 12606 | Who likes it? |
| 12606 | Who perform the constitutional guaranties? |
| 12606 | Who retain the public property? |
| 12606 | Who shall decide these controversies? |
| 12606 | Who shall frame together the skilful architecture which unites national sovereignty with State rights, individual security, and public prosperity? |
| 12606 | Who shall interpret their will, where it may be supposed they have left it doubtful? |
| 12606 | Who shall rear again the well- proportioned columns of constitutional liberty? |
| 12606 | Who thinks that the hunger for dominion will stop here of itself? |
| 12606 | Who warned the country against it? |
| 12606 | Who were these persons? |
| 12606 | Who were these suspicious persons in Brown Street? |
| 12606 | Who will pay the debts? |
| 12606 | Who wishes it? |
| 12606 | Who would desire the power of going back to the ages of fable? |
| 12606 | Who would subscribe? |
| 12606 | Who would wish for an origin obscured in the darkness of antiquity? |
| 12606 | Who would wish that his country''s existence had otherwise begun? |
| 12606 | Who, then, shall construe this grant of the people? |
| 12606 | Who, then, were the conspirators? |
| 12606 | Whose agent is it? |
| 12606 | Whose eyeballs would not be seared by such a spectacle? |
| 12606 | Whose money is it out of which this salary is paid? |
| 12606 | Whose the navy? |
| 12606 | Whose will accomplished it? |
| 12606 | Whose will be the army? |
| 12606 | Why all this complaint against the manner in which the crime is discovered? |
| 12606 | Why all this fear of revenue? |
| 12606 | Why conceal it, or postpone its declaration? |
| 12606 | Why did it not meet on the day to which it had adjourned? |
| 12606 | Why did the gentleman allude to my votes or my opinions respecting the war at all, unless he had something to say? |
| 12606 | Why did they not express their meaning in plain words? |
| 12606 | Why do they not come to the fact? |
| 12606 | Why do they rail against Palmer, while they do not disprove, and hardly dispute, the truth of any one fact sworn to by him? |
| 12606 | Why do we at this day enjoy the lights and benefits of Christianity ourselves? |
| 12606 | Why does he not rend this stuff? |
| 12606 | Why does he not scatter it to the winds? |
| 12606 | Why else have we a government? |
| 12606 | Why is there found no one expression in the whole instrument indicating such intent? |
| 12606 | Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? |
| 12606 | Why shall not a manacled press be trusted with the maintenance and defence of popular rights? |
| 12606 | Why should he jeopard his own life, if it was not agreed that he should be there? |
| 12606 | Why should he not call that a donation to foreigners of many millions? |
| 12606 | Why should not these provisions be passed into a law, and others left to be decided upon their own merits, as a majority of the House shall see fit? |
| 12606 | Why should there be nothing but trust and confidence on our side, and nothing but discretion and power on his? |
| 12606 | Why should we shut our eyes to the whole history of Christianity? |
| 12606 | Why should we thus run in advance of all our own duties, and leave the President completely shielded from his just responsibility? |
| 12606 | Why was Mr. Colman with the prisoner? |
| 12606 | Why was it not said,"the States enter into this new league,""the States form this new confederation,"or"the States agree to this new compact"? |
| 12606 | Why was not similar language used in the Constitution, if a similar intention had existed? |
| 12606 | Why was_ he_ singled out? |
| 12606 | Why, Sir, has it become a settled axiom in politics that every government must have a judicial power coextensive with its legislative power? |
| 12606 | Why, as in regard to the tariff, give out one set of opinions for the North, and another for the South? |
| 12606 | Why, then, all this alarm? |
| 12606 | Why, then, can not the iron be manufactured at home? |
| 12606 | Why, then, did they leave their intent doubtful? |
| 12606 | Why, then, is it not wrought? |
| 12606 | Why, then, should they find such difficulty in writing it? |
| 12606 | Why, then, should we defer the Declaration? |
| 12606 | Why, then, this reference to his official oath, and this ostentatious quotation of it? |
| 12606 | Why, then, why then, Sir, do we not as soon as possible change this from a civil to a national war? |
| 12606 | Why, what would be the result? |
| 12606 | Why, where else can we look but to the people for political power, in a popular government? |
| 12606 | Why, who are the laboring people of the North? |
| 12606 | Will gentlemen, Sir, now answer the argument drawn from these proceedings of the first Congress? |
| 12606 | Will he admit that these questions ought to be regarded as decided by the settled sense of Congress and of the country? |
| 12606 | Will he reply to them, according to the doctrines of his annual message in 1830, that_ precedent_ has settled the question, if it was ever doubtful? |
| 12606 | Will he say to them, that the revenue law is a law of Congress, which must be executed until it shall be declared void? |
| 12606 | Will he urge the force of judicial decisions? |
| 12606 | Will she join the_ arrondissement_ of the slave States? |
| 12606 | Will the gentleman be good enough to explain what sort of a Mexican I am? |
| 12606 | Will the honorable Senator allow me to repeat my statement of the object of the bill? |
| 12606 | Will the honorable Senator permit me to interrupt him for a moment? |
| 12606 | Will the press always speak the truth, when the truth, if spoken, may be the means of silencing it for the future? |
| 12606 | Will they show us how it is possible for a government to get along with four- and- twenty interpreters of its laws and powers? |
| 12606 | Will they stand up and justify it? |
| 12606 | Will they tell us how it should happen that they had so soon forgotten their own sentiments and their own purposes? |
| 12606 | Will they undertake to deny that that Congress did act on the avowed principle of protection? |
| 12606 | Will this be said to be the law of the land, by any lawyer who has a rag of a gown left upon his back, or a wig with one tie upon his head?" |
| 12606 | Will you concur in measures necessary to maintain the Union, or will you oppose such measures? |
| 12606 | Will you take peace without territory, and preserve the integrity of the Constitution of the country? |
| 12606 | With him who thinks thus, what can be the value of the Christian revelation? |
| 12606 | With what intent, or to what end? |
| 12606 | With what propriety, then, could the Senate be called on to sanction a proceeding so entirely irregular and anomalous? |
| 12606 | With whom do they repose this ultimate right of deciding on the powers of the government? |
| 12606 | Witness to what? |
| 12606 | Would Pennsylvania alone ever have constructed it? |
| 12606 | Would Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware have united to accomplish it at their joint expense? |
| 12606 | Would Samuel Knapp have gone to sea if it were then thought of? |
| 12606 | Would any one infer from that circumstance, that the city of London had concurrent power with Parliament or the crown to regulate commerce? |
| 12606 | Would any thing, with such a principle in it, or rather with such a destitution of all principle, be fit to be called a government? |
| 12606 | Would he go down to Ipswich and defend the accused? |
| 12606 | Would he have furnished his cloak for protection? |
| 12606 | Would he have minorities never submit to the will of majorities? |
| 12606 | Would he have pointed out a safe way of retreat? |
| 12606 | Would he have tried to shield him? |
| 12606 | Would he have us always oppose the policy adopted by the country on a great question? |
| 12606 | Would it have been quite amiable in me, Sir, to interrupt this excellent good feeling? |
| 12606 | Would it not be better to convince you that he has committed no crime? |
| 12606 | Would it not be better to show his innocence? |
| 12606 | Would it not be extremely hard to impute to him perjury for this? |
| 12606 | Would it not be out of all possibility to find the money? |
| 12606 | Would it not have cast an air of ridicule on the whole provision, if the Constitution had gone on to add the words,"as he understands it"? |
| 12606 | Would not the two houses be necessarily put in immediate collision? |
| 12606 | Would that have settled the boundary question? |
| 12606 | Would they have equal information? |
| 12606 | Would they stand on equal footing? |
| 12606 | Ye men of James River and the Bay, places consecrated by the early settlement of your Commonwealth, what do you say? |
| 12606 | Ye men of Virginia, what do you say to all this? |
| 12606 | Ye men of the South, of all the original Southern States, what say you to all this? |
| 12606 | Yes, Sir, and what sort of a war has he made of it? |
| 12606 | Yet has the rest of the country no right to its opinion also? |
| 12606 | Your first inquiry, on the evidence, will be, Was Captain White murdered in pursuance of a conspiracy, and was the defendant one of this conspiracy? |
| 12606 | _ But if a man die, shall he live again?_"And that question nothing but God, and the religion of God, can solve. |
| 12606 | _ Whose resolution was this?_ On the 1st of October, they were removed. |
| 12606 | _ Why did they not confer the power in express terms?_ Why were they thus totally silent on a point of so much importance? |
| 12606 | _ Why did they not confer the power in express terms?_ Why were they thus totally silent on a point of so much importance? |
| 12606 | a mode of reasoning which disregards plain facts for the sake of hypothesis? |
| 12606 | a thing of force, or a thing of no force? |
| 12606 | about what? |
| 12606 | among whom? |
| 12606 | an aspect of refusal, denial, and frowning rebuke? |
| 12606 | and does not this show that the law is no part of the contract, but something above it? |
| 12606 | and if any, how much? |
| 12606 | and in what medium is payment to be made? |
| 12606 | and is not this same restriction in daily use in the national House of Representatives itself, in the case of suspension of the rules? |
| 12606 | and need I say, that that doubt is now caused, more than any thing else, by these very proceedings of South Carolina? |
| 12606 | and where else could he have obtained this knowledge, except from Frank? |
| 12606 | and, of course, whether it shall be regarded or disregarded? |
| 12606 | as stating history, rather than as presenting an argument? |
| 12606 | but, What is the object of bringing these new regiments into the field? |
| 12606 | can you doubt as to the fears he then had? |
| 12606 | did she threaten to interfere, by State authority, to annul the laws of the Union? |
| 12606 | he said,''I trust I do, upon what else can I rest?'' |
| 12606 | home, from what fact? |
| 12606 | home, from what place? |
| 12606 | home, from what transaction? |
| 12606 | if New Mexico and Utah had been left as desert- places, and no government had been provided for them? |
| 12606 | if the question of the Texas boundary had not been settled? |
| 12606 | is he there to assist, or there to prevent? |
| 12606 | its words only, or its legal effect? |
| 12606 | its words, or the force which the Constitution of the United States allows to it? |
| 12606 | or do they exist, in full vigor, on the shores of these inland seas? |
| 12606 | or has the effectual government of the country, at least in all that regards the great interest of the currency, been in a single hand? |
| 12606 | or is he to cower, and shrink, and fall to the ground? |
| 12606 | or is this resolution to be held up to government as an invitation or a provocation to turn them out? |
| 12606 | or language describing the grant of powers to a new government, by the whole people of the United States? |
| 12606 | or rather, which has the best right to decide? |
| 12606 | or that it might grant a monopoly of the navigation of the Thames? |
| 12606 | or why, at least, have we not seen some specimens? |
| 12606 | or will they not act as the people of other countries have acted, and, wearied with a long war, submit, in the end, to a worse oppression? |
| 12606 | quem implorem? |
| 12606 | quem obtester? |
| 12606 | something not reconcilable with true patriotism? |
| 12606 | than the allegation of crimes, if committed, capital? |
| 12606 | that it should be kept from children? |
| 12606 | that it should be reserved as a communication fit only for mature age? |
| 12606 | that their ambition, though apparently for the moment successful, had but put a barren sceptre in their grasp? |
| 12606 | that, whatever embarrassment and distress pervade the country, the Western wilderness is thickly sprinkled over with eagles and dollars? |
| 12606 | the condition? |
| 12606 | the consideration? |
| 12606 | the power of internal improvement? |
| 12606 | the promise? |
| 12606 | the tariff power? |
| 12606 | to concur, or to oppose? |
| 12606 | to do nothing, and to say nothing? |
| 12606 | to favor, or to thwart? |
| 12606 | to the principle of lawful resistance? |
| 12606 | to the principle that society has a right to partake in its own government? |
| 12606 | to the whole North? |
| 12606 | to those who make, and to those who execute them? |
| 12606 | was he there for, or against, the murderer? |
| 12606 | was he there to aid, if aid were necessary? |