The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volume 3Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1829 - Pennsylvania |
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... attend their obtaining further place , and more effectually to establish the truth and certainty of those heads , we ... attended others , in theirs , may be prevented in our undertaking . The first remark we offered on this head was ...
... attend their obtaining further place , and more effectually to establish the truth and certainty of those heads , we ... attended others , in theirs , may be prevented in our undertaking . The first remark we offered on this head was ...
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... attended , and faithfully conduct - east of the mountains generally . And I may with jus- ed by the friends of virtue and religion . Our Bench and our Bar , for the administration of jus- tice , are highly respectable for their virtues ...
... attended , and faithfully conduct - east of the mountains generally . And I may with jus- ed by the friends of virtue and religion . Our Bench and our Bar , for the administration of jus- tice , are highly respectable for their virtues ...
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... attending the construction of the Penn- sylvania canal , is the information which has been obtained respecting the ... attend the navigation of this river , are twenty five thousand dollars . Besides this , there is , little known , and ...
... attending the construction of the Penn- sylvania canal , is the information which has been obtained respecting the ... attend the navigation of this river , are twenty five thousand dollars . Besides this , there is , little known , and ...
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... attend a general congress ; and having deter- mined thereupon , shall take such measures , as by them shall be judged most expedient , for procuring this pro- vince to be represented at the said congress , in the best manner that can be ...
... attend a general congress ; and having deter- mined thereupon , shall take such measures , as by them shall be judged most expedient , for procuring this pro- vince to be represented at the said congress , in the best manner that can be ...
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... attending at Philadel- phia ; as we are persuaded you are fully convinced of the necessity of the closest union ... attend at l'hila . at the time proposed . Signed by the Chairman . We CAPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA . An interesting document ...
... attending at Philadel- phia ; as we are persuaded you are fully convinced of the necessity of the closest union ... attend at l'hila . at the time proposed . Signed by the Chairman . We CAPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA . An interesting document ...
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Page 166 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes, on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform; which will require, particularly, the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the Federal Government into conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed, or continued power in, unfaithful or incompetent hands.
Page 166 - In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.
Page 166 - In such measures as I may be called on to pursue, in regard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our Union; taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the confederacy.
Page 166 - Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to ; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power.
Page 166 - As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will ; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending ; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable agis.
Page 247 - British constitution, was the limitation of the king's prerogative by bounds so certain and notorious that it is impossible he should ever exceed them, without the consent of the people on the one hand ; or without, on the other, a violation of that original contract which, in all states impliedly, and in ours most expressly, subsists between the prince and the subject.
Page 231 - ... doing unto others as we would have others do unto us." A moderate degree of attention to this rule, would annihilate a great portion of the distress of hundreds of suffering females. One important means of mitigating the distress of this class, would be, to increase as far as possible the diversity of female employments, by which that competition which has produced the pernicious reduction of wages, would he diminished.
Page 166 - With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of impost, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the constitution was formed, requires that the great interests of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, should be equally...
Page 313 - He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. The husband gone, the ceremony begins. The walls are...
Page 25 - Yes ! where is he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table, earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.