Webster Centennial: A Discourse Delivered on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Daniel Webster, January 18, 1882 |
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Page 11 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together : our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues.
Page 25 - I will not state what might produce the disruption of the Union; but, sir, I see as plainly as I see the sun in heaven what that disruption itself must produce ; I see that it must produce war, and such a war as I will not describe, in its twofold character.
Page 9 - Satan except, none higher sat, with grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic...
Page 17 - He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Open as day for melting charity...
Page 47 - Let their last feeble and lingering glance rather behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto no such miserable interrogatory as "What is all this worth?
Page 26 - I was born an American ; I will live an American ; I shall die an American ; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career.
Page 25 - Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surface...
Page 10 - As a Logic-fencer, Advocate, or Parliamentary Hercules, one would incline to back him at first sight against all the extant world.
Page 50 - I thank her for it, and am proud of her; for she has denounced the whole object for which our armies are now traversing the mountains of Mexico." " If any thing is certain, it is that the sentiment of the whole North is utterly opposed to the acquisition of territory to be formed into new Slave-holding States.
Page 49 - I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the resolutions of the House of Representatives relative to the death of the late Representative BURK.