Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. Chiefly Taken from the Congress Debates, the Private Papers of General Jackson, and the Speeches of Ex-Senator Benton, with His Actual View of the Men and Affairs: with Historical Notes and Illustrations, and Some Notices of Eminent Deceased Contemporaries, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1854 |
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... Spain , which was signed on the 22d day of February following , and which , in acquiring Florida , gave away Texas . I was shocked at it — at the ces- sion of Texas , and the new boundaries proposed for the United States on the ...
... Spain , which was signed on the 22d day of February following , and which , in acquiring Florida , gave away Texas . I was shocked at it — at the ces- sion of Texas , and the new boundaries proposed for the United States on the ...
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... Spain had offered . Internal difficulties , it change Louisiana , or a part of it , for the Flori- was thus shown , had induced that refusal ; and das ; but as I have said , we shall get the Flori- these difficulties grew out of the ...
... Spain had offered . Internal difficulties , it change Louisiana , or a part of it , for the Flori- was thus shown , had induced that refusal ; and das ; but as I have said , we shall get the Flori- these difficulties grew out of the ...
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... Spain , no Spanish commissioners could go there to join ours in executing it ; and so the act remained a dead letter upon the statute- book . Its futility was afterwards acknowledged by our government , and the misstep corrected by ...
... Spain , no Spanish commissioners could go there to join ours in executing it ; and so the act remained a dead letter upon the statute- book . Its futility was afterwards acknowledged by our government , and the misstep corrected by ...
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... Spain . This chapter is a point in the history of the times which will require to be understood by all who wish to understand and appreciate the events and actors of twenty years later . CHAPTER VII . DEATH OF MR . LOWNDES . I HAD but a ...
... Spain . This chapter is a point in the history of the times which will require to be understood by all who wish to understand and appreciate the events and actors of twenty years later . CHAPTER VII . DEATH OF MR . LOWNDES . I HAD but a ...
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... Spain , or any power in alliance with her . If internal im- provements are to be carried on to the full extent to which they may be useful for military purposes , the power , as it exists , must apply to all the roads of the Union ...
... Spain , or any power in alliance with her . If internal im- provements are to be carried on to the full extent to which they may be useful for military purposes , the power , as it exists , must apply to all the roads of the Union ...
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Página 319 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...
Página 13 - State, the propositions set forth in "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other purposes...
Página 315 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us, in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the constitution of the United States of America...
Página 151 - The people, then, sir, erected this government. They gave it a constitution, and in that constitution they have enumerated the powers which they bestow on it. They have made it a limited government. They have defined its authority.
Página 317 - State, shut up her ports, destroy or harass her commerce, or to enforce the acts hereby declared to be null and void, otherwise than through the civil tribunals of the country, as inconsistent with the longer continuance of...
Página 271 - ... to enable the bank to discharge its duties to the government ; and from their decision there is no appeal to the courts of justice. Under the decision of the supreme court, therefore, it is the exclusive province of Congress and the president to decide whether the particular features of this act are necessary, and proper...
Página 269 - Every monopoly and all exclusive privileges are granted at the expense of the public, which ought to receive a fair equivalent. The many millions which this act proposes to bestow on the stockholders of the existing bank must come directly or indirectly out of the earnings of the American people. It is due to them, therefore, if their Government sell monopolies and exclusive privileges, that they should at least exact for them as much as they are worth in open market. The value of the* monopoly in...
Página 269 - I can not perceive the justice or policy of this course. If our Government must sell monopolies, it would seem to be its duty to take nothing less than their full value, and if gratuities must be made once in fifteen or twenty years let them not be bestowed on the subjects of a foreign government nor upon a designated and favored class of men in our own country.
Página 465 - The design of supplying the mint with foreign coins, for recoinage, had then failed ; and in that respect the exclusion of foreign coins has failed in one of its objects — in the other, that of making room for a substitute of bank notes, the success of the scheme has been complete, excessive, and deplorable. Foreign coins were again made a legal tender, their value regulated and their importation encouraged, at the expiration of the charter of the first Bank of the United States. This continued...
Página 319 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...