The Union Text Book; Containing Selections From the Writings of Daniel Webster, the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 115039823X ISBN 13: 9781150398230

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860. Excerpt: ... gress over commerce would be radically deficient without it; the power has been admitted, acknowledged, and exercised. To deny that this power is in the Constitution, is to rewrite the Constitution, to reconstruct it, to take it away, and give us a substitute. To deny that the power has been acknowledged, and exercised, is to contradict history, and to reverse facts. REPLY TO ME. CALHOUN. Speech delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 22(i of March, 1838, in Answer to Mr. Calhoun. Mr. President,--I came rather late to the Senate this morning, and, happening to meet a friend on the Avenue, I was admonished to hasten my steps, as "the war was to be carried into Africa," and I was expected to be annihilated. I lost no time in following the advice, Sir, since it would be awkward for one to be annihilated without knowing any thing about it. Well, Sir, the war has been carried into Africa. The honorable member has made an expedition into regions as remote from the subject of this debate as the orb of Jupiter from that of our earth. He has spoken of the tariff, of slavery, and of the late war. Of all this I do not complain. On the contrary, if it be his pleasure to allude to all or any of these topics, for any purpose whatever, I am ready at all times to hear him. Sir, this carrying the war into Africa, which has become so common a phrase among us, is, indeed, imitating a great example; but it is an example which is not always followed with success. In the first place, every man, though he be a man of talent and genius, is not a Scipio; and in the next place, as I recollect this part of Roman and Carthaginian history,--the gentleman may be more accurate, but as 1 recollect it,--when Scipio resolved upon carrying the war into Africa, Hannibal was not...

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• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 115039823X
• ISBN 13: 9781150398230
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
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