 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...papers that Daniel Webster, at a public dinner in New York iu 1831, said, " Ho smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue...touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet." 3 Burr was siibric()uenth' tried for treason in attempting to form a new republic,... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Portraits, American - 1862 - 686 pages
...Webster, in a speech at New York, half a century afterwards, exclaimed : " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue...touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet." The measures of Hamilton, however, were not adopted without great opposition.... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 480 pages
...consecrate the work of his genius. " He smote the rock of the national resources," says Daniel Webster, " and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched...the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or more perfect, than the finaucial... | |
 | Christopher James Riethmüller - 1864 - 516 pages
...consecrate the work of his genius. " He smote the rock of the national resources," says Daniel Webster, " and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched...the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or more perfect, than the financial... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1865 - 902 pages
...whole country perceived with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue...of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet." ' In this opposition Jefferson, the Secretary of State, performed a secret but active part. Having... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...summit. Address on Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker IJitl Afonumem, 1825. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet.* Speech on Hamilton, March, 1881. * He it was that first... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1866 - 714 pages
...tribute to the genius of Hamilton in a public dinner speech in New York. " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue...touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung п]юп its feet.''t On the fourth of July, 1789, he delivered an Enlogium on Major-General... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - United States - 1867 - 834 pages
...whole country perceived with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue...of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet." l In this opposition Jefferson, the Secretary of State, performed a secret but active part. Having... | |
 | Charles Edwards - Law - 1867 - 534 pages
...and admirers by killing one who, in the lofty language of Daniel Webster at a banquet in New York, " Smote the rock of national resources and abundant...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... | |
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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... 
