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 2; Volume 11; Volume 63Gales & Seaton, 1835 - Law |
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... opinion be effected in both branches of the Legislature , ( which is hardly to be expected , ) a protracted discussion of the measure will operate a wanton waste of time , and have a tendency to defeat much legislation of the utmost ...
... opinion be effected in both branches of the Legislature , ( which is hardly to be expected , ) a protracted discussion of the measure will operate a wanton waste of time , and have a tendency to defeat much legislation of the utmost ...
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... opinion , the House had the necessary time for acting on the bill . The measure might be ascertained whether the House would refuse to do justice to the new States . Until the House had voted directly against the proposition , he would ...
... opinion , the House had the necessary time for acting on the bill . The measure might be ascertained whether the House would refuse to do justice to the new States . Until the House had voted directly against the proposition , he would ...
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... opinion , or be in accordance therewith , we the undersigned , members of the present Legislature of Georgia , † do hereby express our opinions on the subject as aftermentioned , viz : Yclept the Federal Union . [ FEB . 11 , 1835 ...
... opinion , or be in accordance therewith , we the undersigned , members of the present Legislature of Georgia , † do hereby express our opinions on the subject as aftermentioned , viz : Yclept the Federal Union . [ FEB . 11 , 1835 ...
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... opinion that they should receive the same bounty that the infantry received , al- though it was not in the contract , yet it was as proper to give it now as it was in the first instance . He did not altogether approve of the details of ...
... opinion that they should receive the same bounty that the infantry received , al- though it was not in the contract , yet it was as proper to give it now as it was in the first instance . He did not altogether approve of the details of ...
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... opinion that Mr. Letcher was elected as a Representative in Congress from the State of Kentucky . But the House had determined that the proof was so complicated and obscure , they could not come to any conclusion on the subject ; and ...
... opinion that Mr. Letcher was elected as a Representative in Congress from the State of Kentucky . But the House had determined that the proof was so complicated and obscure , they could not come to any conclusion on the subject ; and ...
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