Memoirs of General Andrew Jackson ... to which is Added the Eulogy of Hon. Geo. BancroftJ. C. Derby, 1845 - 270 halaman |
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... desire to make way for General Smith , who he conjectured would in that capacity be able to render more important services to the government than him- self . His country , unwilling that his talents should remain inactive and unemployed ...
... desire to make way for General Smith , who he conjectured would in that capacity be able to render more important services to the government than him- self . His country , unwilling that his talents should remain inactive and unemployed ...
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... desire had been man- ifested to be led forward ; that desire was now strengthened by the information just received ; and it was with difficulty their emotions could be restrained . They accelerated their march , and before eight o'clock ...
... desire had been man- ifested to be led forward ; that desire was now strengthened by the information just received ; and it was with difficulty their emotions could be restrained . They accelerated their march , and before eight o'clock ...
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... desire it . It was not to travel unmolested through a barren wilderness , that you quitted your families and homes , and submitted to so many privations ; it was to avenge the cruelties committed upon our defenseless frontiers by the ...
... desire it . It was not to travel unmolested through a barren wilderness , that you quitted your families and homes , and submitted to so many privations ; it was to avenge the cruelties committed upon our defenseless frontiers by the ...
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... desire to avenge the wrongs they have received ? Your general will not live to behold such a spectacle ; rather would he rush into the thickest of the enemy , and submit himself to their scalping - knives : but he has no fears of such a ...
... desire to avenge the wrongs they have received ? Your general will not live to behold such a spectacle ; rather would he rush into the thickest of the enemy , and submit himself to their scalping - knives : but he has no fears of such a ...
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... desire to place before his men an example of patience and suffering , which he felt might be ne- cessary , and hoped might be serviceable . Of these two impu- tations no human being , invested with rank and power , was ever more ...
... desire to place before his men an example of patience and suffering , which he felt might be ne- cessary , and hoped might be serviceable . Of these two impu- tations no human being , invested with rank and power , was ever more ...
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Halaman 191 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects entrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Halaman 209 - ... from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation, and any injury to that unity is not only a breach which would result from the contravention of a compact, but it is an offence against the whole Union. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a Nation...
Halaman 193 - ... make the rich richer, and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society, the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.
Halaman 194 - Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves...
Halaman 216 - America. Carolina is one of these proud States; her arms have defended, her best blood has cemented, this happy Union. And then add, if you can, without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve; this picture of peace and prosperity we will deface; this free intercourse we will interrupt; these fertile fields we will deluge with blood; the protection of that glorious flag we renounce; the very name of Americans we discard.
Halaman 197 - States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void, and no law," nor binding on the citizens of that State or its officers: and by the said ordinance, it is further declared to be unlawful for any of the constituted authorities of the State or of the United States, to enforce the payment of the duties imposed by the said acts...
Halaman 186 - States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings.
Halaman 199 - But reasoning on this subject is superfluous when our social compact, in express terms, declares that the laws of the United States, its Constitution, and treaties made under it are the supreme law of the land, and, for greater caution, adds "that the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Halaman 197 - State, shut up her ports, destroy or harass her commerce, or to enforce the said acts otherwise than through the civil tribunals of the country, as inconsistent with the longer continuance of...
Halaman 217 - The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject. My duty is emphatically pronounced in the Constitution.