Life of General Jackson. (Old Hickory)R. Bonner's Sons, 1892 - 378 pages |
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... and " the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment , and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands ? " They were not long in discovering what these phrases meant ...
... and " the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment , and have placed or continued power in unfaithful or incompetent hands ? " They were not long in discovering what these phrases meant ...
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Popular passages
Page 340 - Union; and that the people of this State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a separate government and to do all other acts and things which sovereign and independent states may of right do.
Page 38 - Happy he With such a mother ! faith in womankind Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high Comes easy to him, and tho' he trip and fall He shall not blind his soul with clay.
Page 262 - This can be done without implicating the government. Let it be signified to me through any channel (say Mr. J. Rhea) that the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, and in sixty days it will be accomplished.
Page 67 - Were I so tall to reach the pole, Or grasp the ocean with my span, I must be measured by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man.
Page 322 - When they are contending for victory they avow their intention of enjoying the fruits of it. If they are defeated they expect to retire from office ; if they are successful they claim, as a matter o£ right, the advantages of success. They see nothing wrong in the rule, that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.
Page 340 - An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens...
Page 12 - For this child I prayed ; and the Lord hath given me my petition which I asked of him : therefore also I have lent him to the Lord ; as long as he liveth he shall be lent to the Lord.
Page 157 - Not one of the warriors escaped to carry the news — a circumstance unknown heretofore. " We lost five men killed, and forty-one wounded, none mortally, the greater part slightly ; a number with arrows. This appears to form a very principal part of the enemy's arms for warfare, every man having a bow with a bundle of arrows, which is used after the first fire with the gun, until a leisure...
Page 86 - View, may be properly added here : — 0 " The first time that I saw General Jackson was at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1799 — he on the bench, a judge of the then Superior Court, and I a youth of seventeen, back in the crowd. He was then a remarkable man, and had his ascendant over all who approached him, not the effect of his high judicial station, nor of the senatorial rank which he had held and resigned ; nor of military exploits, for he had not then been to war ; but the effect of personal qualities,...
Page 71 - Then his comrade reproached him for not returning when they had first called out. His reply was very characteristic, and explains much in his remarkable career: "A miss is as good as a mile. You see how near I can graze danger.