Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3Perkins & Marvin, 1843 |
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... existing model , likened to no precedent , and yet founded on principles , which lie at the foundations of all free governments , wherever such governments exist . It is a complicated system . It is elaborate , and in some sense ...
... existing model , likened to no precedent , and yet founded on principles , which lie at the foundations of all free governments , wherever such governments exist . It is a complicated system . It is elaborate , and in some sense ...
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... existing , I will state at once my opinions on that point , without fear , and without reserve . I reproach no man , I accuse no man ; but I speak of things as they appear to me , and I speak of principles and practices which I deem ...
... existing , I will state at once my opinions on that point , without fear , and without reserve . I reproach no man , I accuse no man ; but I speak of things as they appear to me , and I speak of principles and practices which I deem ...
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... existing , it is Con- stitutional for the Executive government to select such as it pleases , to intrust the public money to their keeping , without responsibility to the laws of the United States , without the duty of exhibiting their ...
... existing , it is Con- stitutional for the Executive government to select such as it pleases , to intrust the public money to their keeping , without responsibility to the laws of the United States , without the duty of exhibiting their ...
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... existing to the present time . But no man expected it to be used as a mere arbitrary power ; and those who maintained its existence , declared , nevertheless , that it would justly become matter of impeachment , if it should be used for ...
... existing to the present time . But no man expected it to be used as a mere arbitrary power ; and those who maintained its existence , declared , nevertheless , that it would justly become matter of impeachment , if it should be used for ...
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... existing laws as shall seem to them to be just . " And it resolved also , " That the committee be further instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the gradual abolition of slavery within the District , in such ...
... existing laws as shall seem to them to be just . " And it resolved also , " That the committee be further instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for the gradual abolition of slavery within the District , in such ...
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Page 382 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 482 - Union; but for the interests of the community at large, as well as for the purposes of the Treasury, it is essential that the nation should possess a currency of equal value, credit, and use wherever it may circulate. The Constitution has intrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that description...
Page 352 - Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.
Page 143 - We have slavery already amongst us. The Constitution found it in the Union ; it recognized it, and gave it solemn guaranties. To the full extent of these guaranties we are all bound, in honor, in justice, and by the Constitution. All the stipulations contained in the Constitution in favor of the slave-holding States which are already in the Union ought to be fulfilled, and, so far as depends on me, shall be fulfilled, in the fulness of their spirit and to the exactness of their letter.
Page 40 - California, and of the 12th section of the Act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled An Act making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three and for other purposes...
Page 101 - Secretary's order, there is not a word in it having any such tendency ; not a syllable which has any application to the matter. That section simply declares, that after the first day of July, in that year, every purchaser of land at public sale shall, on the day of purchase, make a complete payment therefor; and the purchaser at private sale shall produce a receipt for the amount of the purchase money on any tract, before he shall enter the same at the land office.
Page 443 - Congress shall have power * * * to establish * * * uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
Page 250 - December, 1837, shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of an act entitled ' An Act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands...
Page 235 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Page 336 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...