| 1835 - 346 էջ
....exclaimed, "are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated they expect to retire from office. If they are successful, they claim as a matter-of right, the advantage of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belongs... | |
| John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 910 էջ
...they are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it If they are defeated, they expect to retire from office ; if they...success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy. " But if there be anything wrong in the policy which the senator... | |
| James Parton - 1860 - 896 էջ
...they are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated, they expect to retire from office ; if they...success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the- victor belongs the spoils of the enemy." Mr. Van Burcn found an able defender in Governor Forsyth of... | |
| James Parton - 1860 - 764 էջ
...contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated, the)7 expect to retire from office ; if they are successful,...success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belongs the spoils of the enemy." Mr. Van Buren found an able defender in Governor Forsyth of... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 էջ
...against the soldier in full military array. Speech, Januarg 29, 1828. WILLIAM L. MARCY. 1786-1857. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. Speech in the United States Senate, Januarg, 1832. RUFUS CHOATE. 1799-1859. There was a State without... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - 1867 - 510 էջ
...they are contending for victory, they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated, they expect to retire from office ; if they...success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy." In this hour, when Mr. Van Buren was so bitterly assailed,... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 էջ
...from Rob Roy, vol. i. ch. xx. 372 MARCY—CHOA TE—MA CA ULA Y. WILLIAM L. MARCY. 1786-1857. ' I "HEY see nothing wrong in the rule that to the -*- victors belong the spoils of the enemy. Speech in the United States Senate. January, 1832. RUFUS CHOATE. 1799-1859. ' I "HERE was a State without... | |
| Stephen Powers - 1871 - 378 էջ
...of Jackson came a new rule in politics. In 1832 Marcy gave it felicitous utterance in the Senate : " They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy." Blair and Kendall, composing Jackson's famous "Kitchen Cabinet," on this new principle decapitated... | |
| Stephen Powers - 1871 - 364 էջ
...of Jackson came a new rule in politics. In 1832 Marcy gave it felicitous utterance in the Senate : " They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy." Blair and Kendall, composing Jackson's famous "Kitchen Cabinet," on this new principle decapitated... | |
| John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 էջ
...locks Can shield you ; — 't is the ballot-hox. A Word from a Petitioner. WILLIAM L. MARCY. 1786-1857. They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victors belong the spoils of the enemy. Speech in the United States Senate, January, 1832. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. 1792-1822. How wonderful is... | |
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