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... labor on com- modities which a country produces in deficiency , as bread - stuffs , pro- visions , cotton , timber , & c . , in England , and iron , salt , woolen sugar , & c . , in the United States . But if England should impose an ...
... labor on com- modities which a country produces in deficiency , as bread - stuffs , pro- visions , cotton , timber , & c . , in England , and iron , salt , woolen sugar , & c . , in the United States . But if England should impose an ...
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... labor of Europe . Now if 50 per cent bounty were offered on all the exports of this class , wheat included , it would take but $ 7,000,000 from the treasury to pay the bounty , and it would add 50 per cent to the price of this entire ...
... labor of Europe . Now if 50 per cent bounty were offered on all the exports of this class , wheat included , it would take but $ 7,000,000 from the treasury to pay the bounty , and it would add 50 per cent to the price of this entire ...
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... labor and toil , while low prices goad them on to the most desperate exertions to increase their products and induce them to sell every ounce of produce that can be spared , in order thus to make up in quantity what is lacking in price ...
... labor and toil , while low prices goad them on to the most desperate exertions to increase their products and induce them to sell every ounce of produce that can be spared , in order thus to make up in quantity what is lacking in price ...
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... labor and investments , and it behooves every citizen , to examine thoroughly , and understand with accuracy , how this very responsible and tremendous attribute is exercised and for whose benefit it is wielded . • To take a ...
... labor and investments , and it behooves every citizen , to examine thoroughly , and understand with accuracy , how this very responsible and tremendous attribute is exercised and for whose benefit it is wielded . • To take a ...
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... labor of Europe , then deduct freight and other charges , which for our more interior portions of the United States , amounts to 50 or 100 per cent , and the foreign price with these deductions , determines the domestic price for every ...
... labor of Europe , then deduct freight and other charges , which for our more interior portions of the United States , amounts to 50 or 100 per cent , and the foreign price with these deductions , determines the domestic price for every ...
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Page 2 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 47 - But how much nobler will be the Sovereign's boast, when he shall have it to say, that he found law dear, and left it cheap ; found it a sealed book— left it a living letter ; found it the patrimony of the rich — left it the inheritance of the poor ; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression — left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence...
Page 2 - Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts.
Page 1 - And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers ! for ye lade men with burdens, grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
Page 38 - Together with all and singular the hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining ; and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof...
Page 38 - ... all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, as well in law as in equity, of the said party of the first part, of, in, and to the same, and every part and parcel thereof, with the appurtenances.
Page 11 - Mr. Nesmith, from the committee on judiciary, to whom was referred that portion of the governor's message relating to the erection of a jail, reported they deemed it inexpedient in the present embarrassed condition of finance, to incur the expense of a jail.
Page 3 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Page 38 - ... have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, remise, release, convey and confirm...
Page 6 - But if the public interest can be in any way promoted by the taking of private property, it must rest in the wisdom of the legislature to determine whether the benefit to the public will be of sufficient importance to render it expedient for them to exercise the right of eminent domain, and to authorize an interference with the private rights of individuals for that purpose (2 Kent's Com.