 | England - 1862 - 822 pages
...oppression in such a system is dissolution. " Were we mistaken, my countrymen," asks the President, " in attaching this importance to the constitution of...be blown away by the first breath of disaffection ? " Most reflecting people would now give to these questions an answer quite opposite to that which... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1832 - 844 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...bubble that must be blown away by the first breath «t disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, vision. try theory, the work of the profound statesmen,... | |
 | Philo Ashley Goodwin - Presidents - 1833 - 484 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work ofjhe profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 502 pages
...our lives. and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen^the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 432 pages
...happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching thia importance to the constitution of our country? Was...away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library - Nullification (States' rights) - 1834 - 404 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - United States - 1834 - 798 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...away by the first breath of disaffection? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the work of the profound statesmen, the exalted patriots, to whom... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 810 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happinesshereafter, in its defence and sup. port. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...support of an airy nothing — a bubble that must he blown away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying, visionary theory, the... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 pages
...our lives and fortunes here, and our hopes of happiness hereafter, in its defence and support. Wore we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance...Did we pledge ourselves to the support of an airy nothing—a bubble that must be blown away by the first breath of disaffection ? Was this self-destroying,... | |
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... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the Constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance, which this new doctrine would make it? Did we pledge ourselves... 
