 | Howard Walter Caldwell - United States - 1900 - 278 pages
...line."— Globe, vol. XXII, pt. I, p. 125. WEBSTER (Mass.'i: There is not at this moment, within the United States, or any territory of the United States, a single foot of land, the character of which ib regard to ita being free-soil territory or slave territory is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable... | |
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1901 - 770 pages
...the United States, a single foot of land, the character of which, in regard to its being free-soil territory or slave territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of this Government. Now, is it not so with respect to Texas? Why,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1903 - 336 pages
...firmness of which I intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States,...territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of the government. Is it not so with respect to Texas ? It is most... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 464 pages
...firmness of which 1 intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not at this moment within the United States, or any Territory of the United States,...territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of the government. Is it not so with respect to Texas ? It is most... | |
 | Everett Pepperrell Wheeler - Constitutional history - 1904 - 238 pages
...in honor, in justice, and by the Constitution." 8 4. " That there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States,...a single foot of land, the character of which, in re1 Page 16 of a pamphlet copy of this speech, among the Webster papers in the Library of the NH Historical... | |
 | French Ensor Chadwick - United States - 1906 - 416 pages
...an epitome of the situation. Webster was right when he said "there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States,...territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of the government." 2 1 Webster, Works, V., 361. ' Ibid., 340,... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 434 pages
...firmness of which I intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not, at this moment, within the United States, or any Territory of the United States,...land, the character of which, in regard to its being free-soil territory or slave territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American prose literature - 1916 - 798 pages
...firmness of which I intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States,...territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of the government. Is it not so with respect to Texas ? It is most... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - Cotton growing - 1916 - 474 pages
...he intended as the main proposition of his speech — "that there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States,...territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of the Government." This he argued with considerable length as... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American prose literature - 1916 - 760 pages
...firmness of which I intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States,...territory, is not fixed by some law, and some irrepealable law, beyond the power of the action of the government. Is it not so with respect to Texas ? It is most... | |
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I now say, Sir, as the proposition upon which I stand this day, and upon the truth and firmness of which I intend to act until it is overthrown, that there is not at this moment within the United States, or any territory of the United States, a single... 
