Categoría: Discursos
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Proclama Carlista
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en DiscursosEspañoles: Cumplia à mi dignidad y mis sentimientos esperar el desenlace de los acontecimientos que hoy veo, sin sorpresa, consumados en España, y mas aun no desmentir cuanto os anuncié en mi manifiesto de 23 de mayo de 1845. Entonces os hice conocer mis principios; que mis deseos no eran otros sino sacar à nuestra…
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Final ministerial speech in the House of Commons
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en DiscursosSir, I have now executed the task which my public duty imposed upon me. I trust I have said nothing which can lead to the revival on the present occasion of those controversies which I have deprecated. Whatever opinions may be held with regard to the extent of the danger with which we were threatened…
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Resignation speech in the House of Commons
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en DiscursosSir, I now close the observations which it has been my duty to address to the House, thanking them sincerely for the favour with which they have listened to me in performing this last act of my official career. Within a few hours, probably, that power which I have held for a period of five…
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War Message (Mexico)
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en DiscursosThe existing state of the relations between the United States and Mexico renders it proper that I should bring the subject to the consideration of Congress. In my message at the commencement of your present session the state of these relations; the causes which led to the suspension of diplomatic intercourse between the two countries…
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The repeal of the Corn Laws
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en DiscursosSir, I would fain hope, that although the course which I take is an unusual one, yet that I am acting in conformity with the general wish of the House, in availing myself of the very earliest opportunity of giving that explanation which at no remote period the House will require from me. I would…
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My Slave Experience in Maryland
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en DiscursosMr. Garrison observing that he was one who, by the laws of the South, had been a chattel but who was now, by his own intrepid spirit and the laws of God, a man. He proceeded: I do not know that I can say anything to the point. My habits and early life have done…
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First Inaugural Adress
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en DiscursosFellow-Citizens: WITHOUT solicitation on my part, I have been chosen by the free and voluntary suffrages of my countrymen to the most honorable and most responsible office on earth. I am deeply impressed with gratitude for the confidence reposed in me. Honored with this distinguished consideration at an earlier period of life than any of…
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Temperance Address
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en DiscursosAlthough the Temperance cause has been in progress for near twenty years, it is apparent to all, that it is, just now, being crowned with a degree of success, hitherto unparalleled. The list of its friends is daily swelled by the additions of fifties, of hundreds, and of thousands. The cause itself seems suddenly transformed…
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Proclama como Regente del Reino
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en DiscursosEspañoles: Vivíais hace pocos días en las dulzuras de una paz conquistada con vuestra sangre y vuestra valentía; gozabais todos los beneficios de una constitución, cuyo triunfo asegurasteis del modo más firme; bajo los auspicios de un Gobierno celoso, observante de las leyes, veíais cerrarse poco a poco las llagas abiertas por una guerra destructora,…
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First Inaugural Adress
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en DiscursosCALLED from a retirement which I had supposed was to continue for the residue of my life to fill the chief executive office of this great and free nation, I appear before you, fellow-citizens, to take the oaths which the Constitution prescribes as a necessary qualification for the performance of its duties; and in obedience…