The Ashland Text Book: Being a Compendium of Mr. Clay's Speeches, on Various Public MeasuresRedding & Company, 1844 - 72 էջ |
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
abolition abolitionists administration adopted Africa aggregate agriculture ambition Ameri American amount annual increase ASHLAND TEXT BOOK banks bill Britain British British parliament cent centum per annum colony commerce Congress constitution consumption cotton currency dollars domestic dred effect establish exclusively executive exertions existed expunging resolution fabrics favor foreign market foreign nations free trade freedom of thought friends glorious HENRY CLAY home market honor hundred bales imports industry interests Isaac Shelby labor laws legislation liberty manufactures measure ment millions object Pacific ocean patriotic peace petition population portion ports present President principles proceeds propose prosecution prosperity protection public lands purchase ratio raw produce revenue Senate slavery slaves society South Carolina subsistence sumption supply surplus produce tariff tariff of 1824 term thousand bales three hundred three per centum tion treasury true Union United United States Senate Whig Whig party whole
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 33 - I have no desire for office, not even the highest. The most exalted is but a prison, in which the incarcerated incumbent daily receives his cold, heartless visitants, marks his weary hours, and is cut off from the practical enjoyment of all the blessings of genuine freedom. I am no candidate for any office in the gift of the people of these States, united or separated ; I never wish, never expect to be. Pass this bill, tranquilize the country, restore confidence and affection in the Union, and I...
Էջ 33 - Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the humble instrument, in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided people ; once more to revive concord and harmony in a distracted land ; the pleasing ambition of contemplating the glorious spectacle of a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people ! 19.
Էջ 46 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Էջ 9 - It should be a prominent object with wise legislators, to multiply the vocations and extend the business of society, as far as it can be done by the protection of our interests at home, against the injurious effects of foreign legislation. Suppose we were...
Էջ 20 - ... system, patiently and carefully built up and sanctioned, during a series of years, again and again, by the nation and its highest and most revered authorities. And are we not bound deliberately to consider whether we can proceed to this work of destruction without a violation of the public faith?
Էջ 12 - And what is this tariff? It seems to have been regarded as a sort of monster, huge and deformed; a wild beast, endowed with tremendous powers of destruction, about to be let loose among our people, if not to devour them, at least to consume their substance.
Էջ 20 - If the term of seven years were to be selected of the greatest prosperity which this people have enjoyed since the establishment of their present constitution, it would be exactly that period of seven years which immediately followed the passage of the tariff of 1824.
Էջ 40 - But why should I detain the senate, or needlessly waste my breath in fruitless exertions? The decree has gone forth. It is one of urgency, too. The deed is to be done—that foul deed, like the blood-stained hands of the guilty Macbeth, all ocean's waters will never wash out.
Էջ 10 - That portion of our population, (and we have seen that it is not less than four fifths,) which makes comparatively nothing that foreigners will buy, has nothing to make purchases with from foreigners. It is in vain that we are told of the amount of our exports supplied by the planting interest. They may enable the planting interest to supply all its wants: but they bring no ability to the interests not planting; unless, which cannot be pretended, the planting interest was an adequate vent for the...
Էջ 5 - The entire independence of my country on all foreign states, as it respects a supply of our essential wants, has ever been with me a favorite object. The war of our revolution effected our political emancipation. The last war contributed greatly towards accomplishing our commercial freedom. But our complete independence will only be consummated after the policy of this bill shall be recognized and adopted.