item: #1 of 13
          id: 14661
      author: Kearns, Thomas
       title: Conditions in Utah Speech of Hon. Thomas Kearns of Utah, in the Senate of the United States
        date: None
       words: 9297
      flesch: 64
     summary: Early in 1902 warning had been publicly uttered in the State against the continued manifestation of church power in politics. They sought what is known as church influence.
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        item: #2 of 13
          id: 14721
      author: Lincoln, Abraham
       title: Speeches & Letters of Abraham Lincoln, 1832-1865
        date: None
       words: 91014
      flesch: 69
     summary: With some, the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself and the product of his labour; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men and the product of other men's labour. [Sensation.] In Kentucky--my State--in 1849, on a test vote, the mighty influence of Henry Clay and many other good men there could not get a symptom of expression in favour of gradual emancipation on a plain issue of marching toward the light of civilization with Ohio and Illinois; but the State of Boone and Hardin and Henry Clay, with a _nigger_ under each arm, took the black trail toward the deadly swamps of barbarism.
    keywords: case; congress; constitution; country; court; day; decision; declaration; douglas; free; general; good; government; illinois; judge; judge douglas; know; labour; law; letter; lincoln; man; men; nation; national; negro; new; party; people; place; policy; power; principle; public; question; right; slavery; slaves; speech; states; subject; territory; thing; time; union; united; war; way; white; wrong; years
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        item: #3 of 13
          id: 15391
      author: None
       title: American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896)
        date: None
       words: 65387
      flesch: 59
     summary: It will be recollected that the Legislature of Virginia, in December, '98, took into consideration the alien and sedition laws, then considered by all Republicans as a gross violation of the Constitution of the United States, and on that day passed, among others, the following resolution: The General Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the Federal Government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States who are the parties there-to have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them. [Mr. HAYNE here rose and said, that, for the purpose of being clearly understood, he would state that his proposition was in the words of the Virginia resolution as follows: That this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the Federal Government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact.
    keywords: act; american; authority; britain; british; carolina; case; congress; constitution; country; effect; england; general; gentleman; good; government; history; house; law; laws; liberty; national; nature; new; party; peace; people; power; present; president; principle; public; question; right; sir; south; states; subject; time; treaty; union; united states; war
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        item: #4 of 13
          id: 15392
      author: None
       title: American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)
        date: None
       words: 68284
      flesch: 61
     summary: What I mean to say is, that the time for the admission of new States formed out of Texas, the number of such States, their boundaries, the requisite amount of population, and all other things connected with the admission, are in the free discretion of Congress, except this: to wit, that when new States formed out of Texas are to be admitted, they have a right, by legal stipulation and contract, to come in as slave States. The instinct of this first struggle against slavery extension seems to have been much the same as that of 1846-60 the realization that a permission to introduce slavery by custom into the Territories meant the formation of slave States exclusively, the restriction of the free States to the district between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, and the final conversion of the mass of the United States to a policy of enslavement of labor.
    keywords: abolition; act; admission; cause; character; congress; constitution; convention; country; free; freedom; fugitive; government; house; law; laws; liberty; man; missouri; national; new; north; opinion; party; people; power; present; property; provision; public; question; representatives; right; senate; sir; slave states; slavery; slaves; south; states; subject; territory; time; union; united states; way
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        item: #5 of 13
          id: 15393
      author: None
       title: American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897)
        date: None
       words: 66230
      flesch: 62
     summary: * * Small States and great States; new States and old States; slave States and free States; Atlantic States and Pacific States; gold and silver States; iron and copper States; grain States and lumber States; river States and lake States;--all having varied interests and advantages, would seek superiority in armed strength. Sir, these reports, made in 1803 and 1807, and the action of Congress upon them, in conformity with their recommendation, saved Illinois, and perhaps Indiana, from becoming slave States.
    keywords: act; bill; case; compromise; congress; constitution; country; decision; free; government; law; laws; man; missouri; new; north; opinion; party; people; power; president; principle; property; question; right; senate; senator; sir; slavery; slaves; south; states; states senate; subject; territories; territory; time; union; united states
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        item: #6 of 13
          id: 15394
      author: None
       title: American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)
        date: None
       words: 81802
      flesch: 62
     summary: For years United States notes have been slowly climbing upward, but now they are to have a sudden plunge downward, and in every incompleted contract, great and small, the robbery of Peter to pay Paul is to be fore-ordained. To recognize a government which does not recognize the Constitution is absurd, for a government is not a constitution; and the recognition of a State government means the acknowledgment of men as governors and legislators and judges, actually invested with power to make laws, to judge of crimes, to convict the citizens of other States, to demand the surrender of fugitives from justice, to arm and command the militia, to require the United States to repress all opposition to its authority, and to protect it against invasion--against our own armies; whose Senators and Representatives are entitled to seats in Congress, and whose electoral votes must be counted in the election of the President of a government which they disown and defy.
    keywords: act; american; bill; civil; congress; constitution; country; demand; duty; fact; foreign; gold; government; house; interest; labor; law; laws; man; money; nation; national; new; party; people; policy; power; president; price; protection; public; question; reform; right; senate; senator; service; silver; sir; standard; states; system; tariff; time; trade; union; united states; value; war; world; years
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        item: #7 of 13
          id: 22240
      author: None
       title: Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time
        date: None
       words: 133115
      flesch: 64
     summary: White men have enslaved white men, black men have enslaved black men. It has crowned and made glorious the high places of all civilized nations with the grandest and most enduring works of art, designed to illustrate the characters and perpetuate the memories of great public men.
    keywords: abraham; africa; american; army; black; blood; character; children; christian; church; citizens; civilization; color; common; condition; congress; constitution; country; day; duty; education; emancipation; equal; fact; faith; field; freedom; friends; future; general; god; good; government; hand; heart; history; home; honor; house; human; justice; know; land; law; laws; liberty; life; like; lincoln; love; man; manhood; men; nation; national; negro; negroes; new; north; note; people; place; power; present; progress; public; question; race; republic; rights; school; self; slavery; south; southern; spirit; stand; states; system; things; thought; time; training; union; united; war; way; white; women; work; world; years
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        item: #8 of 13
          id: 41300
      author: Webster, Daniel
       title: Daniel Webster for Young Americans Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution
        date: None
       words: 64017
      flesch: 63
     summary: This feeling, always carefully kept alive, and maintained at too intense a heat to admit discrimination or reflection, is a lever of great power in our political machine. They were not men made great by office; but great men, on whom the country for its own benefit had conferred office.
    keywords: adams; american; carolina; character; congress; constitution; country; day; declaration; england; general; gentleman; good; government; history; hope; human; independence; jefferson; john; knowledge; law; laws; liberty; member; new; people; power; present; president; public; purpose; revolution; right; sidenote; sir; south; spirit; states; time; union; united; war; washington; webster; world; years
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        item: #9 of 13
          id: 44682
      author: Harrison, Benjamin
       title: Speeches of Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President of the United States
        date: None
       words: 224715
      flesch: 66
     summary: W. H. H. Miller, Mr. E. W. Halford, Mr. E. F. Tibbott and family, Miss Sanger, and the representatives of the press, arrived in Washington on the evening of February 26. The fourth and largest delegation of the day came from Boone County, numbering more than two thousand, led by Captain Brown, S. S. Heath, A. L. Howard, W. H. H. Martin, D. A. Rice, James Williamson, E. G. Darnell, D. H. Olive, and Captain Arbigas of Lebanon, the last-named veteran totally blind.
    keywords: a. a.; a. b.; a. c.; a. e.; a. h.; a. l.; a. r.; a. s.; address; american; applause; april; army; august; behalf; best; business; c. b.; c. c.; c. e.; c. f.; c. m.; c. s.; california; campaign; capt; charles; cheering; cheers; chicago; chief; children; citizens; city; club; col; coming; commander; commerce; committee; community; comrades; congress; constitution; convention; country; cries; d. c.; day; delegation; demonstration; development; duties; e. f.; e. h.; e. m.; e. s.; early; evidence; f. a.; f. h.; faces; fellow; flag; following; follows; foreign; frank; free; friends; g. a.; g. w.; general; general harrison; geo; george; god; good; government; governor; grand; greeting; h. b.; h. c.; h. g.; h. h.; h. l.; h. m.; h. s.; hands; heart; henry; history; home; hon; honor; hope; house; illinois; indiana; indianapolis; institutions; interest; j. a.; j. b.; j. c.; j. d.; j. e.; j. f.; j. g.; j. h.; j. j.; j. l.; j. m.; j. n.; j. p.; j. r.; j. s.; j. t.; j. w.; james; john; john a.; john w.; joseph; journey; judge; judge j.; kindly; labor; land; laughter; law; life; little; long; look; love; m. a.; man; market; mayor; members; men; morning; mrs; nation; national; new; night; occasion; ohio; old; order; party; peace; people; pleasant; pleasure; policy; post; power; presence; present; president; president harrison; principles; products; prosperity; public; question; r. c.; r. h.; reception; reception address; republican; respect; rev; school; secretary; senator; smith; south; speech; stand; state; t. h.; tariff; things; thomas; thought; time; trade; train; union; united; vermont; veterans; visit; visitors; w. a.; w. b.; w. c.; w. d.; w. e.; w. f.; w. h.; w. l.; w. m.; w. p.; w. r.; w. s.; w. t.; w. w.; wages; war; washington; way; welcome; william; words; work; world; years; young
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        item: #10 of 13
          id: 45230
      author: Sumner, Charles
       title: Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 01 (of 20)
        date: None
       words: 115177
      flesch: 66
     summary: It should be borne in mind that this system is distinguishable from one of _solitary_ confinement with labor,--much more from one of mere solitary confinement without labor. It provides for the prosecution of the war _to a speedy and successful termination_,--that is, for the speedy and successful prosecution of _unjust_ war.
    keywords: age; american; army; battle; blood; boston; cause; character; christian; common; congress; constitution; country; court; day; days; death; duties; duty; earth; england; english; example; fellow; force; france; freedom; friend; general; glory; god; good; government; hand; heart; history; honor; human; humanity; individuals; influence; judge; jurisprudence; jurist; justice; knowledge; labors; language; law; laws; learning; life; literature; living; love; man; massachusetts; men; mexico; militia; mind; national; nations; nature; new; peace; people; period; pickering; power; present; president; principles; prison; public; purpose; question; reason; regard; right; science; sentiment; service; slavery; society; soul; speech; spirit; states; sumner; system; time; truth; united; virtue; voice; vol; war; words; work; world; wrong; years
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        item: #11 of 13
          id: 45954
      author: Sumner, Charles
       title: Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 04 (of 20)
        date: None
       words: 102212
      flesch: 65
     summary: If more might be expected from the Whig party than the Democratic party, candor must attribute much of the difference to the fact that the Whigs are _out of power_, while the Democrats are _in power_. For a poor triumph of party, the North yields, in advance, all that is dear to it, and, while vainly calling itself _national_, helps to instal the _sectional_ power of Slavery in the National Government.
    keywords: act; bill; boston; carolina; case; chair; character; citizens; committee; compromise; congress; constitution; convention; country; court; day; debate; england; freedom; fugitive; general; good; government; history; house; law; laws; letter; liberty; life; like; man; massachusetts; men; militia; missouri; national; new; north; order; party; people; power; present; prohibition; proposition; public; question; rights; rule; senate; senator; sir; slave act; slavery; slaves; south; speech; states; subject; sumner; support; system; territory; time; united; virginia; vol; way; words
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        item: #12 of 13
          id: 5015
      author: Adams, John Quincy
       title: State of the Union Addresses of John Quincy Adams
        date: None
       words: 31334
      flesch: 37
     summary: It was accordingly exhibited by the immediate and concerted movements of the governors of the State of Illinois and of the Territory of Michigan, and competent levies of militia, under their authority, with a corps of 700 men of United States troops, under the command of General Atkinson, who, at the call of Governor Cass, immediately repaired to the scene of danger from their station at St. Louis. A candid and confidential interchange of sentiments between him and the Government of the United States upon the affairs of Southern America took place at a period not long preceding his demise, and contributed to fix that course of policy which left to the other Governments of Europe no alternative but that of sooner or later recognizing the independence of our southern neighbors, of which the example had by the United States already been set.
    keywords: act; britain; citizens; commerce; commercial; condition; congress; consideration; country; debt; duties; general; government; improvement; intercourse; interest; nations; present; public; revenue; session; time; union; united states; war; year
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        item: #13 of 13
          id: 7600
      author: Webster, Daniel
       title: Select Speeches of Daniel Webster, 1817-1845
        date: None
       words: 121739
      flesch: 64
     summary: I understand him to insist, that, if the exigency of the case, in the opinion of any State government, require it, such State government may, by its own sovereign authority, annul an act of the general government which it deems plainly and palpably unconstitutional. The rights of the people to partake in the government, and to limit the monarch by fundamental rules of government, had been maintained; and however unjust the government of England might afterwards be towards other governments or towards her colonies, she had ceased to be governed herself by the arbitrary maxims of the Stuarts.
    keywords: acts; authority; carolina; case; character; charter; college; compact; condition; congress; constitution; country; court; day; duties; duty; england; force; general; gentleman; good; government; hand; history; house; human; interest; justice; law; laws; legislature; liberty; life; member; money; new; new england; object; opinion; people; place; power; present; president; principles; property; public; purpose; question; revolution; right; sir; south; speech; states; subject; system; tariff; time; union; united; united states; war; webster; world
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