Autor: DiscursosBP
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Against the Queen’s declaration of war with Russia
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en DiscursosThere are two reasons which may induce a Member of this House to address it—he may hope to convince some of those to whom he speaks, or he may wish to clear himself from any participation in a course which he believes to be evil. I presume I am one of that small section of…
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The Rights of Married Women
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en DiscursosTo the Legislature of the State of New York: «The thinking minds of all nations call for change. There is a deep-lying struggle in the whole fabric of society; a boundless, grinding collision of the New with the Old.» The tyrant, Custom, has been summoned before the bar of Common Sense. His Majesty no longer…
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Temperance and Women’s Rights speech
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en DiscursosA little more than one year ago, in this same hall, we formed the first Woman’s State Temperance Society. We believed that the time had come for woman to speak on this question, and to insist on her right to be heard in the councils of Church and State. It was proposed at that time…
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First Inaugural Adress
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en DiscursosMy Countrymen: IT a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regret and bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself. 1 The circumstances under which I have been called for a limited period to preside over…
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Eulogy for Henry Clay
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en DiscursosOn the fourth day of July, 1776, the people of a few feeble and oppressed colonies of Great Britain, inhabiting a portion of the Atlantic coast of North America, publicly declared their national independence, and made their appeal to the justice of their cause, and to the God of battles, for the maintainance of that…
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The Hypocrisy of American Slavery
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en DiscursosMr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could address this audience without a quailing sensation, has stronger nerves than I have. I do not remember ever to have appeared as a speaker before any assembly more shrinkingly, nor with greater distrust of my ability, than I do this day. A feeling has crept over…
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State of the Union Address
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en DiscursosFellow-Citizens of the Senate and of the House of Representatives: Being suddenly called in the midst of the last session of Congress by a painful dispensation of Divine Providence to the responsible station which I now hold, I contented myself with such communications to the Legislature as the exigency of the moment seemed to require.…
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Contre la loi sur la déportation
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en DiscursosParmi les journées de février, journées qu’on ne peut comparer à rien dans l’histoire, il y eut un jour admirable : ce fut celui où cette voix souveraine du peuple, qui, a travers les rumeurs confuses de la place publique, dictait les décrets du gouvernement provisoire, prononça cette grande parole : La peine de mort…
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Speech against Clay’s Compromise Measures
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en DiscursosI have, senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion. Entertaining this opinion, I have, on all proper occasions, endeavored to call the attention of both the two great parties which divided the country to adopt some…
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His Own Compromise Measures
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en DiscursosWas there ever a nation upon which the sun of heaven has shone which has exhibited so much of prosperity as our own? At the commencement of this government, our population amounted to about four millions. It has now reached upwards of twenty millions. Our territory was limited chiefly and principally to that bordering upon…