Select American Speeches: Forensic and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks : Being a Sequel to Dr. Chapman's Select Speeches, 第 2 卷J. W. Campbell, 1815 |
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... Treason , 233 Mr. Wirt's Speech in reply to the foregoing , 279 Mr. Hughes's Speech on General Wilkinson's Proceedings at New Orleans , 358 - Dr. Watkins's Speech on the same subject , 379 Mr. Ross's Speech in the Senate of the United ...
... Treason , 233 Mr. Wirt's Speech in reply to the foregoing , 279 Mr. Hughes's Speech on General Wilkinson's Proceedings at New Orleans , 358 - Dr. Watkins's Speech on the same subject , 379 Mr. Ross's Speech in the Senate of the United ...
第 202 頁
... treason . The law is unconstitu- tional , the people have done right , but the court are bound by the law , and obliged to pronounce upon them the sentence which it inflicts . Deny to the courts of the United States , the power of ...
... treason . The law is unconstitu- tional , the people have done right , but the court are bound by the law , and obliged to pronounce upon them the sentence which it inflicts . Deny to the courts of the United States , the power of ...
第 203 頁
... treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture , except during the life of the party attainted . " Let us suppose that congress pass a bill of attainder , or they enact that any one attainted of treason shall forfeit to the use of ...
... treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture , except during the life of the party attainted . " Let us suppose that congress pass a bill of attainder , or they enact that any one attainted of treason shall forfeit to the use of ...
第 233 頁
... TREASON . THE trial of Mr. BURR ON THE CHARGE OF TREA- SON , had been carried on with little interruption for three months , when it appearing that there was no possibility of legally establishing the charge , or , whatever the pri ...
... TREASON . THE trial of Mr. BURR ON THE CHARGE OF TREA- SON , had been carried on with little interruption for three months , when it appearing that there was no possibility of legally establishing the charge , or , whatever the pri ...
第 235 頁
... treason against the country except he be actually present in person to do the act . On that point alone , though there are many others , I flatter myself to be able to prove to your honours that the present case is not sustainable . Art ...
... treason against the country except he be actually present in person to do the act . On that point alone , though there are many others , I flatter myself to be able to prove to your honours that the present case is not sustainable . Art ...
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第 335 頁 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied — that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose — all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
第 91 頁 - If they were to make a law not warranted by any of the powers enumerated, it would be considered by the judges as an infringement of the constitution which they are to guard. They would not consider such a law as coming under their jurisdiction. They would declare it void.
第 314 頁 - Such was the state of Eden when the serpent entered its bowers. The prisoner, in a more engaging form, winding himself into the open and unpractised heart of the unfortunate...
第 202 頁 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty, or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is...
第 315 頁 - Yet this unfortunate man, thus deluded from his interest and his happiness, thus seduced from the paths of innocence and peace, thus confounded in the toils that were deliberately spread for him, and overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama of guilt and treason, this man is to be called the principal offender, while he, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere...
第 52 頁 - On this theme, my emotions are unutterable. If I could find words for them — if my powers bore any proportion to my zeal — I would swell my voice to such a note of remonstrance it should reach every log-house beyond the mountains.
第 59 頁 - Let us not hesitate then to agree to the appropriation to carry it into faithful execution. Thus we shall save the faith of our nation, secure its peace, and diffuse the spirit of confidence and enterprise that will augment its prosperity. The progress of wealth and improvement is wonderful, and, some will think, too rapid. The field for exertion is fruitful and...
第 313 頁 - Blennerhassett's character, that on his arrival in America he retired even from the population of the Atlantic States, and sought quiet and solitude in the bosom of our Western forests.
第 309 頁 - ... escape of those who are more immediately engaged. They are all, provided the fact be committed, in the eye of the law present at it; for it was made a common cause with them, each man operated in his station at one and the same instant towards the same common end; and the part each man took tended to give countenance, encouragement and protection to the whole gang, and to insure the success of their common enterprise.
第 90 頁 - In a monarchy it is an excellent barrier to the despotism of the prince ; in a republic it is a no less excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body. And it is the best expedient which can be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws.