Life and Public Services of Thomas A. Hendricks: With Selected Speeches and WritingsCarlon and Hollenbeck, 1886 - 637 pages |
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... questions of great public interest , and possess a high historic value ; others dealt with questions that may again be brought up for review , and should therefore be preserved for future reference . Of both these kinds , some of the ...
... questions of great public interest , and possess a high historic value ; others dealt with questions that may again be brought up for review , and should therefore be preserved for future reference . Of both these kinds , some of the ...
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... question - Mr. Hendricks's position -The pulpit - Disappearance of the Whigs - The " Fusion " ticket in Indiana - Race with Barbour - Know - nothingism - Speech at Shelby- ville - Last session in Congress - The Pacific Railway bill ...
... question - Mr. Hendricks's position -The pulpit - Disappearance of the Whigs - The " Fusion " ticket in Indiana - Race with Barbour - Know - nothingism - Speech at Shelby- ville - Last session in Congress - The Pacific Railway bill ...
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... Question will not seem strange when we remem- ber the time and the circumstances . The year 1823 had been one of world - wide excitement . A republic was rëestablished in Mexico , on the ruins of Iturbide's brief empire . South America ...
... Question will not seem strange when we remem- ber the time and the circumstances . The year 1823 had been one of world - wide excitement . A republic was rëestablished in Mexico , on the ruins of Iturbide's brief empire . South America ...
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... question to the people at the next elec- tion . It was shrewdly required that the vote be not written on ballots , but given orally and publicly . The election on that summer day closed an exciting campaign in Shelby county . Mr ...
... question to the people at the next elec- tion . It was shrewdly required that the vote be not written on ballots , but given orally and publicly . The election on that summer day closed an exciting campaign in Shelby county . Mr ...
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... question now occupying too large a space in the public mind to be passed over in silence . Its division into separate govern- ments , and the establishment of the necessary organic laws , must occupy the early attention of Congress ...
... question now occupying too large a space in the public mind to be passed over in silence . Its division into separate govern- ments , and the establishment of the necessary organic laws , must occupy the early attention of Congress ...
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Page 557 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 551 - Whose lonely columns stand sublime, Flinging their shadows from on high, Like dials, which the wizard, Time, Had raised to count his ages by...
Page 104 - And be it resolved, That the governor be requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our senators and representatives in congress.
Page 624 - The constitution of our country, in its most interesting and vital parts, is to be considered; the conflicting powers of the government of the Union and of its members, as marked in that constitution, are to be discussed; and an opinion given, which may essentially influence the great operations of the government. No tribunal can approach such a question without a deep sense of its importance, and of the awful responsibility involved in its decision.
Page 205 - ... exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
Page 224 - ... if the Cotton States shall become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 458 - To carry out the plan of colonization may involve the acquiring of territory, and also the appropriation of money beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition.
Page 158 - We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves.
Page 270 - SENATOR. who shall inquire into the condition of the States which formed the so-called Confederate States of America, and report whether they or any of them are entitled to be represented in either House of Congress...
Page 549 - It shall be the duty of the general assembly, as soon as circumstances will permit, to form a penal code, (bunded on the principles of reformation, and not of vindictive justice: And also to provide one or more farms, to be an asylum for those persons who, by reason of age, infirmity, or other misfortunes, may have a claim upon the aid and beneficence of society...