Word: speech
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Best general references: Atlantic Monthly, vol. 57, p. 180; Morrill's Speech, forty-sixth congress, first session...
...Such harmony is not essential; (a) our form of government is one of checks and balances; (b) our constitution secures as much harmony between the departments as is consistent with their independence-Morrill's Speech, thirty-eighth congress, second session...
...Washington's inauguration. Its contents are already familiar, for it is merely a compilation of some of the greatest documents of American history. The book contains the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, Washington's two inaugurals and farewell address, Lincoln's two inaugurals and speech at Gettysburg. The farewell address of Washington is carefully edited with marginal notes. Like all the rest of the series this book is well printed and neatly bound. It contains two fairly good portrait plates-Washington and Lincoln...
...possession of a large navy is an incentive to war:- Speech of Oates, Congressional Record, vol. 17, p. 2344; Cobden's speeches...
...United States do not require a large navy. (a) We have no distant colonies to defend:- Holman's speech, Congressional Record, vol. 18, Appendix, p. 97; (b) we have proved our ability to maintain our rights without the support or a large navy, e. g. the Oregan Question, (see Schouler's History of the United States, vol 4, p. 503); The Alabama claims:- (see McCarthy, History of Our Own Times...