 | Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 662 pages
...Webster alluded when he said of Hamilton : " 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."* This great measure presented itself to the minds of reflecting men, both in a financial and political... | |
 | Freeman Hunt - 1858 - 652 pages
..."Webster alluded when he said of Hamilton : " 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."* This great measure presented itself to the minds of reflecting men, both in a financial and political... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1864 - 504 pages
...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, 1790, Rhode Island adopted the constitution, and the confederacy then embraced all of... | |
 | George Payn Quackenbos - 1869 - 552 pages
...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, 1790, Rhode Island adopted the constitution, and the confederacy then embraced all of... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1871 - 366 pages
...Daniel Webster has eloquently said of him, . . 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." that posts were still held on the frontier, and that our seamen were impressed. Chief Justice Jay was... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - 1871 - 390 pages
...Daniel Webster has eloquently eald of him, " He umote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue burst forth. He touched the dead corpse of public credit, and it spraugupon its feet." J He told them, it is said, that if they ever violated this agreement he would... | |
 | Lewis O. Thompson - 1873 - 336 pages
...firm foundation. In the words 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." March 4. Vermont, the fourteenth State, admitted to the Union. November 4. General St. Clair defeated... | |
 | Asa Hollister Craig - 1878 - 296 pages
...bank were established at Philadelphia. 214. "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." 215. The inhabitants in Western Pennsylvania were determined that no tax should be paid on whisky,... | |
 | Asa Hollister Craig - 1879 - 354 pages
...bank were established at Philadelphia. 214. "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." 215. The inhabitants in Western Pennsylvania were determined that no tax should be paid on whisky,... | |
 | Old Residents' Historical Association of Lowell (Mass.) - 1879 - 470 pages
...with admiration. 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 sprang upon its feet. The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden or more perfect than the... | |
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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 public credit, and it sprang upon its feet. 
