Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volume 5; Volume 20; Volume 49Gales & Seaton, 1830 - Law |
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... party in this country who was opposed to having the public debt redeemed , and who were contriving all the means in their power to perpetuate it . He believed that it was a darling object with some people to have the debt forever unpaid ...
... party in this country who was opposed to having the public debt redeemed , and who were contriving all the means in their power to perpetuate it . He believed that it was a darling object with some people to have the debt forever unpaid ...
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... parties looked with interest . He wished to be explicit on this point , from what had been alluded to in debate . He did not think there was any party in this country disposed to prolong the debt . He knew of no public man , or any ...
... parties looked with interest . He wished to be explicit on this point , from what had been alluded to in debate . He did not think there was any party in this country disposed to prolong the debt . He knew of no public man , or any ...
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... party in the United States in favor of continuing the public debt , Mr. B. could not say there was a political party which could be so charac- terized ; but he knew there were many in favor of it-- large interests in favor of it ; and ...
... party in the United States in favor of continuing the public debt , Mr. B. could not say there was a political party which could be so charac- terized ; but he knew there were many in favor of it-- large interests in favor of it ; and ...
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... party in the country disposed to violate the Sinking Fund . He consi- dered the Sinking Fund as sacred as the other gentleman did ; but he knew of no party , or combination of indivi- duals , for any such end or purpose . He had never ...
... party in the country disposed to violate the Sinking Fund . He consi- dered the Sinking Fund as sacred as the other gentleman did ; but he knew of no party , or combination of indivi- duals , for any such end or purpose . He had never ...
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... party question . The pre- decessor of the present President of the United States having established a precedent in the appointment he had referred to , the great question in his mind was , whether the President of the United States had ...
... party question . The pre- decessor of the present President of the United States having established a precedent in the appointment he had referred to , the great question in his mind was , whether the President of the United States had ...
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Page 231 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 231 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 231 - The legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Page 184 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Page 184 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Page 227 - ... with any king, prince or state ; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state ; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.
Page 277 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the Government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the National Legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 130 - ... of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.
Page 130 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Page 323 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass...