Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
You, sir, will bring down that renowned chair in which you sit into infamy if your seal is set to this instrument of perfidy; and the name of this nation, hitherto the sweet omen of religion and liberty, will stink to the world.
In the 1830's a few Cherokee Indians were found who would sign a "treaty" agreeing to their removal westward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882, Poet & Essayist, Letter to President Martin Van Buren, April 1938
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Ingersoll was considered to be the greatest orator and political thinker of his day, but his overt atheistic views curtailed his elected political career.
Iturbide, known also as Agustin I, was the first Emperor of Mexico who was executed by a firing squad.
Clay came from the western part of Kentucky—then the "western" part of the United States.
In the 1912 Republican nominating convention, Theodore Roosevelt was contesting the renomination of President William Howard Taft whom he had originally picked as the Republican nominee four years earlier. Then Senator Harding gave the nominating speech for Taft. In it he described Roosevelt as:
[This was the first Abolition appeal written by a Black Man. It was published in Boston and was very popular going through two more printings within the next two years.]
Ralph Waldo Emerson, who went by his middle name Waldo, was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism and a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and he disseminated his thoughts through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures across the United States.
