Autor: DiscursosBP
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Al enemigo
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en DiscursosLargo tiempo habéis combatido con más valor que fortuna en defensa de una causa que criminales ambiciosos han querido pintaros como justa. Vuestra sangre ha corrido á torrentes por dejaros alucinar con mentidas promesas, experimentando desgracias en casi todos los puntos en que habéis peleado y la ocupación reciente de las líneas de Oriamendi, de…
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First Inaugural Adress
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en DiscursosFellow-Citizens: The practice of all my predecessors imposes on me an obligation I cheerfully fulfill—to accompany the first and solemn act of my public trust with an avowal of the principles that will guide me in performing it and an expression of my feelings on assuming a charge so responsible and vast. In imitating their…
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Farewell Address
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en DiscursosFellow-Citizens: Being about to retire finally from public life, I beg leave to offer you my grateful thanks for the many proofs of kindness and confidence which I have received at your hands. It has been my fortune in the discharge of public duties, civil and military, frequently to have found myself in difficult and…
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Slavery: a positive good
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en DiscursosI do not belong, said Mr. C., to the school which holds that aggression is to be met by concession. Mine is the opposite creed, which teaches that encroachments must be met at the beginning, and that those who act on the opposite principle are prepared to become slaves. In this case, in particular. I…
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«On the Expunging Resolutions
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en DiscursosMr. President: WHAT patriotic purpose is to be accomplished by this Expunging resolution? What new honor or fresh laurels will it win for our common country? Is the power of the Senate so vast that it ought to be circumscribed, and that of the President so restricted that it ought to be extended? What power…
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La desamortización
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en DiscursosA su Majestad la Reina Gobernadora: «Señora, vender la masa de bienes que han venido a ser propiedad de la Nación, no es tan sólo cumplir una promesa solemne y dar una garantía positiva a la deuda nacional, es abrir una fuente abundantísima de felicidad pública; vivificar una riqueza muerta, desobstruir los canales de la…
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Justice for Ireland
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en DiscursosIt appears to me impossible to suppose that the House will consider me presumptuous in wishing to be heard for a short time on this question, especially after the distinct manner in which I have been alluded to in the course of the debate. If I had no other excuse, that would be sufficient; but…
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Defence of his acceptance of office
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en DiscursosI shall in the first place, refer to the circumstances under which the present Government was constituted. I shall defend the course which I thought it my duty to advise the King to pursue at the period of its formation and give accurate delineations of the measures which it is the intention of his Majesty’s…
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Manifiesto de Abrantes
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en DiscursosNo ambiciono el trono; estoy lejos de codiciar bienes caducos; pero la religión, la observancia y cumplimiento de la ley fundamental de sucesión y la singular obligación de defender los derechos imprescriptibles de mis hijos y todos los amados consanguineos, me esfuerzan a sostener y defender la corona de España del violento despojo que de…
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Muerte de Fernando VII
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en DiscursosSumergida en el más profundo dolor por las súbita pérdida de mi augusto esposo y soberano, sólo una obligación sagrada…puede hacerme interrumpir el silencio que exige la intensidad de mi pesar…Para disipar esa incertidumbre y precaver la inquietud y extravío que produce en los ánimos, he crío mi deber anticiparme a conjeturas y adivinaciones con…