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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... respect their cause , and wish to make it your own . For myself , I must declare and avow , that in all my reading and observation - and it has been my favorite study - I have read Thucydides , and have studied and admired the master ...
... respect their cause , and wish to make it your own . For myself , I must declare and avow , that in all my reading and observation - and it has been my favorite study - I have read Thucydides , and have studied and admired the master ...
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... respecting the ter- ritory or other property belonging to the United States . " The improvement of rivers and har ... respect to it south of the Potomac was , th State had a right to withdraw from the Un that it required the same ...
... respecting the ter- ritory or other property belonging to the United States . " The improvement of rivers and har ... respect to it south of the Potomac was , th State had a right to withdraw from the Un that it required the same ...
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... respect for the committee required : it was read twice , and committed to a committee of the whole House for the next day - most of the members not considering it a serious proceeding . Nothing further was done in the House that session ...
... respect for the committee required : it was read twice , and committed to a committee of the whole House for the next day - most of the members not considering it a serious proceeding . Nothing further was done in the House that session ...
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... respect of the world . CHAPTER VIII . DEATH OF WILLIAM PINKNEY . He died at Washington during the session of the ... respects Mr. Pinkney was truly a great orator , rich in his material , strong in his argument - clear , natural and ...
... respect of the world . CHAPTER VIII . DEATH OF WILLIAM PINKNEY . He died at Washington during the session of the ... respects Mr. Pinkney was truly a great orator , rich in his material , strong in his argument - clear , natural and ...
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... respect to each other , and to foreign powers . The goods , and the ves- sels employed in the trade , are the only subject of regulation . It can act on none other . He then shows the evil out of which that grant of power grew , and ...
... respect to each other , and to foreign powers . The goods , and the ves- sels employed in the trade , are the only subject of regulation . It can act on none other . He then shows the evil out of which that grant of power grew , and ...
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Página 139 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Página 369 - Army shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation or federal Alliance of the said States Virginia inclusive according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Página 253 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 253 - The authority of the Supreme Court must not, therefore, be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive, when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.
Página 114 - The days of our years are threescore years and ten ; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Página 142 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 141 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Página 123 - The charter of the Bank of the United States expires in 1836, and its stockholders will most probably apply for a renewal of their privileges. In order to avoid the evils resulting from precipitancy in a measure involving such important principles, and such deep pecuniary interests, I feel that I cannot, in justice to the parties interested, too soon present it to the deliberate consideration of the Legislature and the People.
Página 137 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Página 348 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...