Lives of the Governors of the State of New YorkDerby and Miller, 1851 - 826 oldal |
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Adams administration adopted advocated Albany Ambrose Spencer amendment American approved bank became bill bucktails Buren canal candidate caucus character citizens Clintonians colonies commenced Congress consideration constitution contest convention council of appointment declared delegates desired duties election electors Erastus Root father favor federal federalists feeling former friends George Clinton Governor Clinton Governor Throop Governor Tompkins Hammond held honor important influence interest Jackson Jefferson Jonas Platt Judge Spencer justice Lake latter legislative legislature Lewis Lewisites Livingston Madison majority measures ment Nathan Sanford never nomination occasion opinion opponents opposed opposition passed patriotic political politician popularity position president presidential prominent question received recommended reëlection regard removed republican party resolution respect Rufus King Schenectady secure Senate session speech success Supreme Court talents thousand Throop tion took treaty United vice-president vote Washington whigs Witt Clinton Yates York York legislature
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656. oldal - Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.
243. oldal - A multitude, like which the populous North Poured never from her frozen loins, to pass Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South, and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Libyan sands.
94. oldal - You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government, and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts but calumnies. Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory, and our greatest happiness...
92. oldal - WHEN a nation, led to greatness by the hand of liberty, and possessed of all the glory that heroism, munificence, and humanity can bestow, descends to the ungrateful task of forging chains for her friends and children, and instead of giving support to freedom, turns advocate for slavery and oppression, there is reason to suspect she has ceased to be virtuous, or been extremely negligent in the appointment of her rulers.
679. oldal - But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator of the Universe. We are his stewards, and must so discharge our trust as to secure in the highest attainable degree their happiness.
453. oldal - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery hi the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding States...
450. oldal - ... our system, purified and enhanced in value by all it has encountered, still preserves its spirit of free and fearless discussion, blended with unimpaired fraternal feeling. The capacity of the people for self-government, and their willingness, from a high sense of duty, and without...
455. oldal - In receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided to my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success. But united as I have been in his counsels, a daily witness of his exclusive and unsurpassed devotion to his country's welfare, agreeing with him in sentiments which his countrymen have warmly supported, and permitted to partake largely of his confidence, I may hope...
35. oldal - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
95. oldal - But if you are determined that your ministers shall wantonly sport with the rights of mankind : if neither the voice of justice, the dictates of the law, the principles of the constitution, or the suggestions of humanity, can restrain your hands from shedding human blood in such an impious cause, we must then tell you, that we will never submit to be hewers of wood or drawers of water for any ministry or nation in the world.