The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

Daniel Webster

C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851

Inhalt

• A Declaration of Principles and Purposes adopted by a General Convention: 41
• A Speech delivered at the Merchants Meeting in Wall Street New York: 55
• A Speech delivered on the 5th of October 1840 in the Capitol Square: 83
• Remarks made at a Public Reception by the Ladies of Richmond Virginia: 105
• A Speech made in Faneuil Hall on the 30th of September 1842 at a Public: 143
• Remarks made at a Meeting of the New York Historical Society on the 15th: 145
• VOL II: 157
• An Address delivered at a Convention of the Whigs of Essex County Mas: 159
• A Speech delivered on the 22d of December 1843 at the Public Dinner: 203
• Mass Meeting AT ALBANY: 217
• A Speech delivered at a Great Whig Convention at Philadelphia on the: 253
• A Speech delivered at a Great Convention of the Whigs of Chester and Mont: 277
• A Speech delivered at a Public Dinner given to Mr Webster at Philadelphia: 309
• Speeches delivered by Mr Webster on his Arrival at Charleston S C: 398
• Remarks made at the Opening of the Northern Railroad to Grafton: 414
• A Speech delivered in Faneuil Hall on the 24th of October 1848 at a: 449
• VISIT TO BUFFALO IN 1851: 529
• A Speech delivered before a large Assembly of the Citizens of Buffalo and: 544
• SPEECH TO THE YOUNG MEN OF ALBANY: 565
• An Address delivered at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Addition: 595

Beliebte Passagen

Seite 235 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.

Seite 602 - What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...

Seite 510 - Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Seite 510 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.

Seite 437 - Ask where's the North? at York, 'tis on the Tweed; In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.

Seite 522 - Faith, &.c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...

Seite 397 - And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but, in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honor, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.

Seite 225 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.

Seite 224 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...

Seite 230 - Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.

Bibliografische Informationen

• Titel: The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions; Band 2 von The Works of Daniel Webster, Daniel Webster
• Autor/in: Daniel Webster
• Verlag: C.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851
• Original von: New York Public Library
• Digitalisiert: 18. Dez. 2007