Parents are magistrates under God, and, as His stewards, cannot abdicate their authority, nor delegate it to another.
Then why resign into a stranger's hand A task so much within your own command, That God and Nature, and your interest too Seem with one voice to delegate to you?
I was chosen as a State elector, and also as a State delegate to St. Louis by our recent convention.
In 1864, Mr. Tilden, though absorbed by his profession and holding no relations with the public not shared by any private citizen, found himself appointed a delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago.
I was a candidate in that district for the position of delegate against a ring ticket.
Nicoll, Henry, delegate to convention to revise Constitution of the State of New York, 45, 46.
Allen, Stephen, delegate to convention to revise Constitution of the State of New York, 45-46.
Floyd, delegate to convention to revise Constitution of the State of New York, 45, 46.
Townsend, Solomon, delegate to convention to revise Constitution of the State of New York, 45, 46.
I was a candidate for delegate for the State at large, and was only beaten by your opponents and the Greenback element, after I vindicated you in a speech which united all the opposition against me.
He was a member of the old Congress--a delegate to the Convention that framed the Federal Constitution and the first United States Senator from his native State.
Notwithstanding his advanced age and his ardent desire for retirement, he was placed in the gubernatorial chair of Pennsylvania and in 1787 elected a delegate to the Convention that formed the Federal Constitution.
In 1754 he was a delegate to the Congress of Commissioners which met at Albany to devise means of defence against the anticipated hostilities of the French and savages.
The next year he was a delegate to the convention of states convened at Annapolis to regulate the Commerce of the Union.
In 1754 he was a delegate to the Colonial Congress held at Albany, N.
When a mere youth he was the delegate of South Kingston to carry assistance to the citizens of Boston when reduced to distress by the infamous Port Bill.
In 1774 Mr. Lee was a delegateto the Congress convened at Philadelphia.
He was a usefuldelegate of the Convention that framed the Federal Constitution.
He was an active member of the council of safety and on the second Thursday of October 1775, was appointed a delegate to the Continental Congress.
He served his country in various public capacities--was a member of the Continental Congress--a delegate to the Convention that framed the Federal Constitution and governor of his state.
He received a vote of thanks for his noble course in Congress and was made a delegate for the next session.
The British Delegate explained that the willingness of Governments to amend the Covenant must be clearly expressed in the Protocol.
The Portuguese Delegate proposed an amendment to substitute for the word "territories" in the first sentence, the phrase "territories under the sovereignty of States.
The delegate of Brazil, however, said he would prefer to proceed by way of a reservation rather than by any modification of the text.
At the suggestion of the French Delegate the question was referred back to the sub-committee.
The British Delegate proceeded to discuss the position of the British Empire supposing that it accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court, and was then forced, in support of the Covenant, to go to war at sea.
The British Delegatereminded the Committee that the views of His Majesty's Government had already been explained in the Assembly in regard to the optional clause.
The Lithuanian Delegate made a reservation that the reference to territorial security in no way prejudiced existing disputes between States signing the Protocol.
Mr. Smalls was a delegateto several National Republican Conventions.
Lynch, delegate from Mississippi, was elected temporary chairman, the first and only time that a colored man ever presided over a Republican National Convention.
In 1868, he was a presidential elector, casting a vote for Grant and Colfax, while four years later he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention.
Taylor, a delegate from Virginia and later the biographer of Lott Cary, did not challenge the statement that so little had been accomplished during the eight years of the existence of the African mission.
They had now a popular house of commons--a delegate house of commons; that house had passed this measure, and their lordships were told that nothing was left for them but to record and register the decree of the house of commons.
Taylor, the Paisley delegate to the convention, and Messrs.
Rossel is no doubt a better strategist than I am, and I do not in the least mind his letting me know it, but if Dombrowski or Bergeret was 'Delegate for War,' Rossel would have been in prison or shot a fortnight ago.
William Pierce, delegate from Georgia, made an estimate of each member of the convention, the only contemporary estimate thus far brought to light.
Robert Yates, delegate from New York, kept notes of the proceedings of the Convention, until he left July 5th, with his colleague, John Lansing.
We should have sent a delegate to your Convention or written sooner, were not the assistance of all of our members daily demanded, as also all our time, in the building up of Humanity's Home.
Mr. Brisbane was thedelegate on the part of the New York friends, and Mr. Allen Worden on the part of the Albany Branch.
This Association, though not properly a member of the group that radiated from Rochester, and somewhat remote from western New York, was named among the confederated Associations, and sent a delegate to the Bloomfield Council.
Eighteen months afterward he was elected a delegate to the Virginia Convention of 1776, and this he calls "my first entrance into public life.
Jones, Joseph, desires to be appointeddelegate to Congress, 22.
To a necessitous delegate he gratuitously spares a supply out of his private stock.
It does not appear, however, that the delegate extraordinary was ever sent, perhaps because it was known to Mr. Madison's friends that it would be a mortification to him.
The Bishops have--ostensibly of their own free will--abdicated in favour of the monarch, to receive back from him so many rights and commissions as he may think good to delegate to them.
We'll go at the company in the way that that walking delegate says.
I see the walking delegate discussed the strike at an elegant banquet at the Hotel Hoffman last night.
And I hope I am not exceeding my functions as a delegate in asking that question.
I am come here as a delegate from the part of the country in which I reside.
The convention agreed to this instantly with but one dissenting and it was ascertained that she was not only not a delegate but not a member of the association.
No delegate ought to quiet her conscience with the thought that the judgment of the general officers is the best judgment.
Miss Vida Goldstein, a delegate from Australia, began her address: "I am very proud that I have come here from a country where the woman suffrage movement has made such rapid strides.
The woman, however, does not vote in person but transfers her vote to her husband, her son or her son-in-law and in case these are unable to vote for her she has the right to delegate her vote to an outsider.
A delegate spoke of the appointment of a woman for the first time to an office in her State and immediately delegates from other States gave the same announcement until it was necessary to stop the flood.
If points of serious difference arise they are taken up and settled by the Business Committee, out of sight of the public, but in all matters directly connected with the association everydelegate has a voice and vote.
It seems but a short time since the convention of 1902, which I attended as the delegate appointed by the British United Women's Suffrage Societies and also of the Scottish National Society.
Belmont, a delegate from New York, through whose generosity it had been possible to take them to that city in 1909, offered a motion that they now be removed to Washington.
A telegram of greeting was sent to Mrs. Catt and she was appointed fraternal delegate to the Peace Conference in New York in April.
In 1907 she had attended a plenary session at The Hague Peace Conference, which she described in glowing terms, and she went as a delegate in September to an International Peace Conference in Munich.
Recognizing the importance of a world-wide standardization of industry we favor the participation of the United States in the International Labor Conference and the appointment of a woman delegate to the next conference.
Augusta Stowe-Gullen, a prominent physician of Toronto and an early suffragist, who had come as a fraternal delegatefrom the Canadian Association, spoke of the excellent results of the School and Municipal vote in the hands of women.
In the present instance the two largest sums were given to the "Medecin des Pauvres" and to the delegatefrom Verviers.
I have this moment learned that you are a delegate and must take a public stand.
I am a regularly accredited delegate from South Harvey, holding the proxy--" He got no further.
He might delegate much of his authority, but men were under no misapprehension that he could and would revoke it whenever he chose.
My fellow delegate from America was shocked at my desertion of the congress.
I found that the Father with childlike pride had boasted far and wide of my having been chosen as delegate to the prison congress at Rome.
The English delegate seized the opportunity to return my accusation of blasphemy.
Last of all the American Prison Society took notice of me and chose me as a delegate to the International Congress at Rome.
When it became evident that Lincoln was about elected, while the feeling of expectancy was at the highest degree of tension, an Ohio delegate mounted his chair and announced a change of four Ohio votes from Chase to Lincoln.
Every delegatewho came in that could be reached was laid hold of and conducted to Davis' headquarters.
As long as men delegate to other men the function of acting for them, of thinking for them, we shall continue to have him.
I like Douglas and am for him," said Buck Stone, a member of Congress and delegate to the National Democratic Convention from Kentucky, "though I consider him a good deal of a damn fool.
Mr. Quincy was here called to order by Mr. Poindexter, delegate from the Mississippi territory, for the words in italics.
Nominations, which had been made by cliques of legislators or Congressmen, began to be made by popular delegate conventions about 1825.
