Speeches, Messages and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A Senator in Congress from the State of MississippiJ. B. Smith & Company, 1859 - 610 pages |
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... authority , in my opinion , was ever conferred . The Legislature may rightfully tax the citizen to defray the economical expenses of the government , and to pay the debts of the state ; but it would be going far beyond the authority ...
... authority , in my opinion , was ever conferred . The Legislature may rightfully tax the citizen to defray the economical expenses of the government , and to pay the debts of the state ; but it would be going far beyond the authority ...
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... authority , entitled to exercise only such powers as are above specified , your committee have searched with an anxious solicitude every line in the Constitution , to find some warrant for the erection of a National Bank . It is not pre ...
... authority , entitled to exercise only such powers as are above specified , your committee have searched with an anxious solicitude every line in the Constitution , to find some warrant for the erection of a National Bank . It is not pre ...
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... authority to the general govern- ment , to regulate commerce between the states , and how far a " National Bank is necessary and proper " to the perfection of this power . What is meant by regulating commerce between the states and ...
... authority to the general govern- ment , to regulate commerce between the states , and how far a " National Bank is necessary and proper " to the perfection of this power . What is meant by regulating commerce between the states and ...
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... House , that this will be the result ? And have not defences been attempted to be set up for this political monstrosity ? Sir , you have no authority to raise revenue in 4 FEES OF UNITED STATES MARSHALS AND CLERKS . 49.
... House , that this will be the result ? And have not defences been attempted to be set up for this political monstrosity ? Sir , you have no authority to raise revenue in 4 FEES OF UNITED STATES MARSHALS AND CLERKS . 49.
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... authority to fix any such contingency . You have no authority to take one dollar of money collected in this way , though there were millions wrung from the unhappy citizen . I will vote for the proposition of my colleague , and I shall ...
... authority to fix any such contingency . You have no authority to take one dollar of money collected in this way , though there were millions wrung from the unhappy citizen . I will vote for the proposition of my colleague , and I shall ...
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Page 174 - Mexicans who, in the Territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States...
Page 129 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 431 - State, colony, district, or people, as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three years...
Page 501 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I GENESIS 14 will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Page 132 - Delaware, December 7, 1787 ; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787 ; New Jersey, December 18, 1787 ; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788 ; South Carolina, May 23, 1788 ; New...
Page 481 - ... whether as private citizens or as public functionaries sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, to regard and to treat the third clause of the fourth article of that instrument, whenever applied to the case of a fugitive slave, as utterly null and void, and consequently as forming no part of the Constitution of the United States, whenever we are called upon or sworn to support it.
Page 42 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 369 - That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Page 360 - American 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...
Page 416 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...