The History of the United States: From Their Colonization to the End of the Twenty-sixth Congress, in 1841, Volume 4Lippincott, 1857 - United States |
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... Means on a reduction of the revenue ....... 275 Memorial from New York for the restoration of the National Bank ........ ...... 276 Martin Van Buren elected President ........ .... 277 Petition from Slaves ........ ..... 278 Debate on ...
... Means on a reduction of the revenue ....... 275 Memorial from New York for the restoration of the National Bank ........ ...... 276 Martin Van Buren elected President ........ .... 277 Petition from Slaves ........ ..... 278 Debate on ...
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... mean to hold himself bound by the declarations which he had made respecting the course of the preceding Administration . In an address or reply made to the Legislature of Tennessee , he maintained that no member of Congress ought to be ...
... mean to hold himself bound by the declarations which he had made respecting the course of the preceding Administration . In an address or reply made to the Legislature of Tennessee , he maintained that no member of Congress ought to be ...
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... means of averting this sad fate , he suggests that an ample territory beyond the Missis- sippi be set apart for the Indian tribes , and be guaran- teed to them as long as they occupy it . Their emigration ought , he says , to be ...
... means of averting this sad fate , he suggests that an ample territory beyond the Missis- sippi be set apart for the Indian tribes , and be guaran- teed to them as long as they occupy it . Their emigration ought , he says , to be ...
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... means of artful appeals to the resent- ments to which he was so prone , and to that pride which was mortified by having its sagacity deceived , and its confidence abused . However effected , there is no doubt that , from the time of ...
... means of artful appeals to the resent- ments to which he was so prone , and to that pride which was mortified by having its sagacity deceived , and its confidence abused . However effected , there is no doubt that , from the time of ...
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... means of support for one year . The improvements on their lands to be paid for according to their appraised value . Some further provisions for their benefit were proposed by way of amendment - as , that they should be pro- tected in ...
... means of support for one year . The improvements on their lands to be paid for according to their appraised value . Some further provisions for their benefit were proposed by way of amendment - as , that they should be pro- tected in ...
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Page 295 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states ; and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists.
Page 267 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 123 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.
Page 145 - The Citizens of each of the contracting parties shall have power to dispose of their personal goods...
Page 27 - Under these circumstances, if such an institution is deemed essential to the fiscal operations of the Government, I submit to the wisdom of the Legislature whether a national one, founded upon the credit of the Government and its revenues, might not be devised, which would avoid all constitutional difficulties ; and, at the same time, secure all the advantages to the Government and country that were expected to result from the present Bank.
Page 330 - Resolved, That all petitions, memorials and papers, touching the abolition of slavery or the buying, selling or transferring of slaves, in any State, District or Territory, of the United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, printed, read or referred, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 19 - A diffidence, perhaps too just, in my own qualifications will teach me to look with reverence to the examples of public virtue left by my illustrious predecessors, and with veneration to the lights that flow from the mind that founded and the mind that reformed our system.
Page 24 - ... is truly great and glorious. The recent invasion of Mexico, and the effect thereby produced upon her domestic policy, must have a controlling influence upon the great question of South American emancipation. We have seen the fell spirit of civil dissension rebuked, and perhaps forever stifled, in that Republic by the love of independence.
Page 295 - ... aggression from abroad. Certain danger was foretold from the extension of our territory, the multiplication of States, and the increase of population. Our system was supposed to be adapted only to boundaries comparatively narrow. These have been widened beyond conjecture; the members of our Confederacy are already doubled, and the numbers of our people are incredibly augmented. The alleged causes of danger have long surpassed anticipation, but none...
Page 361 - ... according to the true intent of the said treaty of peace of one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, that part of the boundary between the dominions of the two powers, which extends from the water communication between lake Huron and lake Superior, to the most north-western point of the lake of the woods...