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: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Volume 1Gales and Seaton, 1851 - United States |
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... tion of the House of Representatives for an ad- journment of Congress on the 28th instant , and it was agreed to amend the resolution , by inserting " the 3d of July " for the time of adjournment . On motion , to agree to the resolution ...
... tion of the House of Representatives for an ad- journment of Congress on the 28th instant , and it was agreed to amend the resolution , by inserting " the 3d of July " for the time of adjournment . On motion , to agree to the resolution ...
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... tion ; and find them all to be of the same handwriting with the letter in question . Mr. Blount has never de- nied this letter , but , on the other hand , when the copy transmitted to the Senate was read in his presence , on the 3d ...
... tion ; and find them all to be of the same handwriting with the letter in question . Mr. Blount has never de- nied this letter , but , on the other hand , when the copy transmitted to the Senate was read in his presence , on the 3d ...
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... tion which their importance demand , and will zealously co - operate in those measures which shall appear neces- sary for our own security or peace . " Whatever differences of opinion may have existed among the people of the United ...
... tion which their importance demand , and will zealously co - operate in those measures which shall appear neces- sary for our own security or peace . " Whatever differences of opinion may have existed among the people of the United ...
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... tion : yet we say to them , we are right ; you have no cause to complain ; all the departments of our Government have acted right . The President's Speech , which he said they were about to echo , declared the Government has been ...
... tion : yet we say to them , we are right ; you have no cause to complain ; all the departments of our Government have acted right . The President's Speech , which he said they were about to echo , declared the Government has been ...
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... tion came as near to a fixed principle , as any other of what are called the laws of nations ever did , as only one nation in Europe could be excepted from the general understanding of it . Mr. Pick- ering , he thought , seemed not to ...
... tion came as near to a fixed principle , as any other of what are called the laws of nations ever did , as only one nation in Europe could be excepted from the general understanding of it . Mr. Pick- ering , he thought , seemed not to ...
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Page 561 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 673 - We will neither import nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Page 673 - O LORD, I beseech thee, how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight.
Page 55 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
Page 573 - An Act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory Northwest of the Ohio and above the mouth of Kentucky River, and of the Acts amendatory of the same.
Page 625 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 617 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 649 - In order to terminate all differences on account of the losses sustained by the citizens of the United States in consequence of their vessels and cargoes having been taken by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, during the late war between Spain and France...
Page 647 - States is essential, if not to their existence, at least to their comfort, their growth, prosperity and happiness ; — The genius, character, and habits of the people are highly commercial, their cities have been formed, and exist upon commerce ; our agriculture, fisheries, arts and manufactures, are connected with and depend upon it ; in short, commerce has made this country what it is ; and it cannot be destroyed or neglected, without involving the people in poverty and distress...
Page 503 - The two high contracting parties shall, by all the means in their power, maintain peace and harmony among the several Indian nations who inhabit the country adjacent to the lines and rivers, which, by the preceding articles, form the boundaries of the two Floridas.