Unallured by dissipation, and unswayed by pleasure, he never sacrificed the national treasure to the one, or the national interest to the other.

This honour he should not have had, but for a circumstance which he could not but deeply regret, the severe indisposition of his friend Mr. Wilberforce, in whose hands every measure which belonged to justice, humanity, and the national interest, was peculiarly well placed.

It had become, by all causes, a national interest,by no means conspicuous, so that some great scholar would have thought of treating it in an English history,but not a whit less considerable because it was cheap and of no account, like a baker's-shop.

Simply," I added hastily, "in the national interest, of course.

The system upon which this great national interest has been managed was the result of long, anxious, and persevering deliberation.

It is important that this work should be a work not of party but of national interest, and I am induced to believe that a large class in this country, who think themselves bound to support the present administration from a superficial sympathy with their domestic measures, have long viewed their foreign policy with distrust and alarm.

Causes are in operation which will, it is believed, justify a still further reduction, without injury to any important national interest.

No other amendment touching the general national interest is left to be fought out by individual action in the individual States.

Should they be obtained, it will be through no grasping spirit, but with a view to obvious national interest and security, and in a manner entirely consistent with the strictest observance of national faith.

The power to declare war is vested by the Constitution in Congress, and the experience of our past history leaves no room to doubt that the wisdom of this arrangement of constitutional power will continue to be verified whenever the national interest and honor shall demand a resort to ultimate measures of redress.

Nor is the influence of the university in Germany exerted in matters of great national interest only.

Happily, however, we have a far stronger guaranty in national interest and in public opinion.

Despite the warning of the SPEAKER that it was not in the national interest to embarrass the Administration, Mr. KING insisted on trying to discuss forbidden topics.

It may be formed, as Burke said, by 'a body of men united for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.'

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The policy was simple, and the national interest palpable; King Louis XV.

Garrison and Phillips were in their prime, and slavery was a question of national interest.

The serf-owning spirit developed in the French aristocracy an instinct which led them in national troubles to guard the serf-owning class first and the nation afterward, and to acknowledge fealty to the serf-owning interest first and to the national interest afterward.

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To a friend he said, "my temper leads me to peace and harmony with all men; and it is peculiarly my wish to avoid any feuds or dissentions with those who are embarked in the same great national interest with myself; as every difference of this kind must in its consequence be very injurious.

We will urge no narrow policy nor seek peculiar or exclusive privileges in any commercial route; but, in the language of my predecessor, I believe it to be the right "and duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across the isthmus that connects North and South America as will protect our national interest.

I invite your attention to the suggestions contained in that report in relation to these prominent objects of national interest.