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 sprang upon its feet... 1785-1824 - Page 465edited by - 1910Full view - About this book
| John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 558 pages
...abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove wns hardly more sudden or more perfect than the financial system of the United States as it burst forth... | |
| John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 pages
...for sterling, incorruptible integrity.;.. All these he found in Hamilton." — Gouverneur Morris. " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gnshed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprang upon its .feet. The fabled... | |
| Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1862 - 686 pages
...welfare of the country, Daniel Webster, in a speech at New York, half a century afterwards, exclaimed : " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet." The measures of Hamilton, however, were not adopted without great opposition. Jefferson was their persistent... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...these masterly state papers that Daniel Webster, at a public dinner in New York iu 1831, said, " Ho smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...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, but was acquitted... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...to these masterly state papers that Danicl Webster, at a public dinuer in New York in 1S31, said, " He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenne gushed forth ; he touched the dead corpse of the public eredit, and it sprung upon its feet."... | |
| 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 dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or... | |
| 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 dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva from the brain of Jove was hardly more sudden or... | |
| George Payn Quackenbos - 1864 - 504 pages
...credit cannot be given to the far-seeing policy of Hamilton. In the eloquent language of Webster, " He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit and it sprang upon its feet." 428. In May,... | |
| Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 pages
...at such a time, the whole country perceived with delight, and the whole world saw with admiration. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...touched the dead corpse of the Public Credit, and it sprang upon its feet." ' In this opposition Jefferson, the Secretary of State, performed a secret but... | |
| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...linger and play on its summit. Address on Laying the Corner-Stone of the Bunker IJitl Afonumem, 1825. He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant...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... | |
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