A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared Under the Joint Committee on Printing of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States (with Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise)Bureau of National Literature, 1897 - Presidents |
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Page 881
... States . The Government of Russia has never disputed these positions nor manifested the slightest dissatisfaction at their having been taken . Most of the new American Republics have declared 900 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
... States . The Government of Russia has never disputed these positions nor manifested the slightest dissatisfaction at their having been taken . Most of the new American Republics have declared 900 Messages and Papers of the Presidents.
Page 882
United States. President. taken . Most of the new American Republics have declared their entire assent to them , and ... declaration of its character and exposure of it to the world may be probably all that the occasion would require ...
United States. President. taken . Most of the new American Republics have declared their entire assent to them , and ... declaration of its character and exposure of it to the world may be probably all that the occasion would require ...
Page 885
... declared in his annual message to Congress of the 2d December , 1823 , to which I have already adverted , and to an important passage of which I invite the attention of the House : The citizens of the United States [ said he ] cherish ...
... declared in his annual message to Congress of the 2d December , 1823 , to which I have already adverted , and to an important passage of which I invite the attention of the House : The citizens of the United States [ said he ] cherish ...
Page 886
... declared their independ- ence and maintained it , and whose independence we have on great consideration and on just principles acknowledged , we could not view any interposition for the purposes of oppressing them or controlling in any ...
... declared their independ- ence and maintained it , and whose independence we have on great consideration and on just principles acknowledged , we could not view any interposition for the purposes of oppressing them or controlling in any ...
Page 887
... declaration of our independence , which inspired the preamble of our first treaty with France , which dictated our first treaty with Prussia and the instructions under which it was negoti- ated , which filled the hearts and fired the ...
... declaration of our independence , which inspired the preamble of our first treaty with France , which dictated our first treaty with Prussia and the instructions under which it was negoti- ated , which filled the hearts and fired the ...
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Page 885 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 1282 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 1290 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 884 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 1223 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 1179 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Page 958 - States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 1203 - States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law," nor binding on the citizens of that State or its officers; and by the said ordinance it is further declared to be unlawful for any of the constituted authorities of the State or of the United States to enforce the payment of the duties imposed by the said acts...
Page 1211 - The Constitution of the United" States then forms a government, not a league, and whether it be formed by compact between the States, or in any other manner, its character is the same. It is a Government in which all the people are represented, which operates directly on the people individually, not upon the States — they retained all the power they did not grant.
Page 1206 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects — -that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest — is ' ' to form a more perfect union.