“Corruption of morals is rapid enough in any country without a bounty from government. And...the Chief Magistrate of the United States should be the last man to accelerate its progress.” MenShouldCountryStatesEnoughGovernmentLastsUnitedMoralUnited StatesProgressCorruptionChiefsRapidsAccelerateBountyMagistrates Author:Daniel Webster
“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.” MayStatesEyeLastsTimeHeavenSunBloodLandBrokenShiningUnionsGloriousLast TimeFragmentsFeudsFraternal Author:Daniel Webster
“..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.” IfsStillsWarStatesSidesEffectsBrokenConstitutionSlaveSouthBoundsCongressRefuseCivil WarRemedyCan NotRestorationBargainsCompactFugitive Book:The Wanderer Case: The Speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga Source: The Wanderer Case: The Speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga
“No power but Congress can declare war; but what is the value of this constitutional provision, if the President of his own authority may make such military movements as must bring on war? ... [T]hese remarks originate purely in a desire to maintain the powers of government as they are established by the Constitution between the different departments, and hope that, whether we have conquests or no conquests, war or no war, peace or no peace, we shall yet preserve, in its integrity and strength, the Constitution of the United States.” IfsMayDifferentWarStatesGovernmentDesireValuesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryMovementIntegrityAuthorityConstitutionCongressPreservesDepartmentConquestRemarksProvisionPeace WarNo WarConstitution Of The United States Author:Daniel Webster
“He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton.” StatesPerfectUnitedBrainUnited StatesFeetRocksBirthResourcesFinancialCreditStreamsTouchedConceptionRevenueCorpsesSprungHamiltonFinancial SystemMinerva Author:Daniel Webster
“If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name.” IfsHas BeensStatesGovernmentLawNamesLeftRightsConstitutionIndependenceUnionsRepublicConventionsSovereignty Author:Daniel Webster
“If the Union was formed by accession of States then the Union may be dissolved by the secession of States.” IfsMayStatesRightsUnionsSovereigntySecession Author:Daniel Webster
