The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Compriing the Period from March 3, 1789 to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Volume 13Gales and Seaton, 1852 - United States |
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... gentlemen who has just sat down , I shall take the liberty of commencing . with re- peating what I said yesterday , in answer to ano- ther honorable gentleman from Delaware , ( Mr. WHITE , ) that every argument they have made use of ...
... gentlemen who has just sat down , I shall take the liberty of commencing . with re- peating what I said yesterday , in answer to ano- ther honorable gentleman from Delaware , ( Mr. WHITE , ) that every argument they have made use of ...
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... gentlemen wish ? It cannot be . I hope , Mr. President , that the citizens of the United States will never see the day when their defence shall depend on a British army or navy , or the army or navy of any other Power on earth . We are ...
... gentlemen wish ? It cannot be . I hope , Mr. President , that the citizens of the United States will never see the day when their defence shall depend on a British army or navy , or the army or navy of any other Power on earth . We are ...
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... gentlemen As to the enormity of price , I would ask that considered our national honor so deeply impli- gentleman , would his mode of acquiring it through cated , and the rights of the western people so fifty thousand men have cost ...
... gentlemen As to the enormity of price , I would ask that considered our national honor so deeply impli- gentleman , would his mode of acquiring it through cated , and the rights of the western people so fifty thousand men have cost ...
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... gentlemen on this floor , understood the practice But half as well as she did the theory , a very different result would have been produced by her revolution . I believe , sir , there are a set of general causes which operate in every ...
... gentlemen on this floor , understood the practice But half as well as she did the theory , a very different result would have been produced by her revolution . I believe , sir , there are a set of general causes which operate in every ...
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... gentleman intend that the two Houses of Congress shall take upon themselves the management of this business ? But greater trusts have been confided to former Presidents . Have gentlemen forgotten the law of 1798 or 1799 , which enabled ...
... gentleman intend that the two Houses of Congress shall take upon themselves the management of this business ? But greater trusts have been confided to former Presidents . Have gentlemen forgotten the law of 1798 or 1799 , which enabled ...
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