Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3Perkins & Marvin, 1843 |
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... trade and sailors ' rights . The ocean , therefore , was the proper theatre for deciding this controversy with our enemy , and on that theatre my ardent wish was , that our own power should be concentrated to the utmost . " So much ...
... trade and sailors ' rights . The ocean , therefore , was the proper theatre for deciding this controversy with our enemy , and on that theatre my ardent wish was , that our own power should be concentrated to the utmost . " So much ...
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... trade of the world , it seemed to me to be very plain , that while our commerce was still to be fostered with the most zealous care , yet quite a new view of things was presented to us , in regard to our internal pursuits and concerns ...
... trade of the world , it seemed to me to be very plain , that while our commerce was still to be fostered with the most zealous care , yet quite a new view of things was presented to us , in regard to our internal pursuits and concerns ...
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... trade in the District of Columbia . The first purports to be signed by two thousand four hundred and twenty- five of the female inhabitants of Boston . This petition is in the usual printed form . It is respectful to Congress , and ...
... trade in the District of Columbia . The first purports to be signed by two thousand four hundred and twenty- five of the female inhabitants of Boston . This petition is in the usual printed form . It is respectful to Congress , and ...
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... trade in slaves , within the District , I think petitions on those subjects , respectfully presented , ought to be respectfully treated , and respectfully considered . The respect- ful mode , the proper mode , is the ordinary mode . We ...
... trade in slaves , within the District , I think petitions on those subjects , respectfully presented , ought to be respectfully treated , and respectfully considered . The respect- ful mode , the proper mode , is the ordinary mode . We ...
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... trade as it exists in , and is carried on through , the District ; and that they report to the House such amendments to the existing laws as shall seem to them to be just . " And it resolved also , " That the committee be further ...
... trade as it exists in , and is carried on through , the District ; and that they report to the House such amendments to the existing laws as shall seem to them to be just . " And it resolved also , " That the committee be further ...
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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...