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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…
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Second Inaugural Address
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en DiscursosFellow-Citizens: THE will of the American people, expressed through their unsolicited suffrages, calls me before you to pass through the solemnities preparatory to taking upon myself the duties of President of the United States for another term. For their approbation of my public conduct through a period which has not been without its difficulties, and…
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Message to the Senate and House Regarding South Carolina’s Nullification Ordinance
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en DiscursosGentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: In my annual message at the commencement of your present session I adverted to the opposition to the revenue laws in a particular quarter of the United States, which threatened not merely to thwart their execution, but to endanger the integrity of the Union; and although I…
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The Russian loan and Holland
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en DiscursosThe right hon. gentleman stated that the present Government had found themselves bound hand and foot by the engagements of their predecessors, who consented to guarantee a loan of £800,000 in aid of Prince Leopold, on his election to the throne of Greece. The right hon. gentleman had no right to say that the hands…