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 874
... last session of Congress , but by some accident were not then communicated to the House . To the Senate of the United States : JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . WASHINGTON , February 16 , 1826 . In answer to the two resolutions of the Senate of the ...
... last session of Congress , but by some accident were not then communicated to the House . To the Senate of the United States : JOHN QUINCY ADAMS . WASHINGTON , February 16 , 1826 . In answer to the two resolutions of the Senate of the ...
Page 875
... session a detailed report of the system and plan of for- tifications then contemplated and recommended by the Board of Engi- neers , with various particulars specified in the resolution ; and on the 5th of January last a further ...
... session a detailed report of the system and plan of for- tifications then contemplated and recommended by the Board of Engi- neers , with various particulars specified in the resolution ; and on the 5th of January last a further ...
Page 893
... recent court - martial for the trial of Colonel Talbot Chambers , and other documents ... last , requesting information concerning the official conduct of the ... session of Congress : ( 1 ) With the Great and Little Osage tribes ...
... recent court - martial for the trial of Colonel Talbot Chambers , and other documents ... last , requesting information concerning the official conduct of the ... session of Congress : ( 1 ) With the Great and Little Osage tribes ...
Page 897
... last session , some were then definitively acted upon . Others , left unfinished , but partly matured , will recur to your attention without needing a renewal of notice from me . The purpose of this communication will be to present to ...
... last session , some were then definitively acted upon . Others , left unfinished , but partly matured , will recur to your attention without needing a renewal of notice from me . The purpose of this communication will be to present to ...
Page 900
... last session of Congress treaties of amity , navigation , and commerce were negotiated and signed at this place with the Government of Denmark , in Europe , and with the Federation of Central America , in this hemisphere . These ...
... last session of Congress treaties of amity , navigation , and commerce were negotiated and signed at this place with the Government of Denmark , in Europe , and with the Federation of Central America , in this hemisphere . These ...
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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.