 This constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful: among other deformities it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy; and does not this raise indignation...  Eloquence of the United States - Page 941827 - 517 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1827 - 526 pages
...that they will not : I shall therefore be an infidel on that point till the day' of my death. This constitution is said to have beautiful features ;...squinting; it squints towards monarchy : and does not tlu's raise indignation in the breast of every true American ? Your president may easily become king.... | |
 | William Wirt - Orators - 1832 - 490 pages
...was then the primary object." And again : " This constitution is said to have beautiful features ; when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear...deformities, it has an awful squinting ; it squints toward monarchy I And does not this raise indignation in the heart of every true American 1 Your president... | |
 | William Wirt - Statesmen - 1833 - 486 pages
...Sir, was then the primary object." And again: " This constitution is said to have beautiful features ; when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful! arnong other deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy ! And does not this... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1836 - 692 pages
...belief that they will not. I shall therefore be an infidel on that point till the day of my death. This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but...American ? Your President may easily become king. Your Senate-is so ini perfectly constructed that your dearest rights mav be sacrificed-by what may be a... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - English language - 1839 - 482 pages
...during life, have divided the empire of his soul. THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION.— PATRICK HENRT. This constitution is said to have beautiful features ;...to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horridly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting ; it squints towards monarchy... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...Constitution is said to have beautiful features. When I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to be horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has...monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the heart of every true American?" He then goes on to say how it could be done, and that we must not always... | |
 | Phrenology - 1847 - 408 pages
...sir, was then the primary object.' And again: 'This constitution is said to have beautiful features ; when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear...deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy ! And does not this raise indignation in the heart of every true American. " ' Your... | |
 | Robert Reid Howison - Virginia - 1848 - 542 pages
...instead, of " We, the states." The powers of the President seemed to him enormous, ruinous. " This Constitution is said to have beautiful features, but...has an awful squinting : it squints towards monarchy /"' The federal judiciary encountered his warm opposition. He could not separate from it the ideas... | |
 | William Wirt - 1849 - 484 pages
...was then the primary object." And -again : " This constitution is said to have beautiful features ; when I come to examine these features sir, they appear to me horribly frightful ! Among othei deformities, it has an awful squm\.i>i% ; it squints tswarc monarchy ! And does not this \ use... | |
 | William Wirt - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1850 - 314 pages
...again : " This constitution is said to have beautiful features ; when I come to examine these featnres, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful ! Among...deformities, it has an awful squinting ; it squints toward monarchy ! And does not this raise indignation in the heart of every true American ? " Your... | |
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