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 ...Gales & Seaton, 1833 - United States |
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Page 1315
... paid for them elsewhere . Such are the results it must have been shocked and disgusted ; I say , sir , be- of protection extended to the hatters of the United States , fore I could venture to make such an appeal to any mem- that it ...
... paid for them elsewhere . Such are the results it must have been shocked and disgusted ; I say , sir , be- of protection extended to the hatters of the United States , fore I could venture to make such an appeal to any mem- that it ...
Page 1327
... paid , no regard is had to the very it fell the following year to twenty - six cents ; in 1818 it numerous individuals employed by , or making profit upon rose to thirty - three cents ; thus giving a most extrava- the supply or ...
... paid , no regard is had to the very it fell the following year to twenty - six cents ; in 1818 it numerous individuals employed by , or making profit upon rose to thirty - three cents ; thus giving a most extrava- the supply or ...
Page 1363
... paid for carrying out the cotton to be picked by hand , and bringing it back when the work was done . Cloth was , at first , woven in the hand loom , and six cents a yard paid for the plainest and coarsest fabrics . The power loom was ...
... paid for carrying out the cotton to be picked by hand , and bringing it back when the work was done . Cloth was , at first , woven in the hand loom , and six cents a yard paid for the plainest and coarsest fabrics . The power loom was ...
Page 1373
... paid by the manu- amount to 65,000,000 dollars . The culture of this land , facturers of cotton equals $ 12,155,723 ; and that this and the care of these sheep , will employ one hundred amount is annually distributed among one hundred ...
... paid by the manu- amount to 65,000,000 dollars . The culture of this land , facturers of cotton equals $ 12,155,723 ; and that this and the care of these sheep , will employ one hundred amount is annually distributed among one hundred ...
Page 1375
... paid but once a year ; while foreign ships and vessels paid the same duty on every entry . A higher rate of duty , paid Is it not a great and a glorious system which has produc- on merchandise , when imported in foreign vessels , gave ...
... paid but once a year ; while foreign ships and vessels paid the same duty on every entry . A higher rate of duty , paid Is it not a great and a glorious system which has produc- on merchandise , when imported in foreign vessels , gave ...
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ad valorem amendment American amount annually bank Bates Cooke believe called CAMBRELENG capital Chairman Chilton Allan citizens commerce committee Congress consideration constitution cotton debt doctrine domestic duty effect Elisha Whittlesey equal existing exported favor foreign Frederick Whittlesey friends Georgia give Government Hiland Hall honorable hope House hundred imported increase industry interest labor land last session legislation Legislature manufactures Massachusetts means measure ment motion moved nation navy nullification object operation opinion pass portion pound present President principle production profits proper proposed proposition protection provisions purpose question reduced resolution Revenue Collection Bill Rhode Island Robert McCoy Secretary slaves South Carolina Southern Tariff Bill tariff of 1816 thing thousand tion treasury twenty per cent Union United VERPLANCK Virginia vote whole WICKLIFFE wool woollens yeas and nays
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Page 1893 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 1643 - Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that Heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence, that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual, that the free constitution which is the work of your hands may be sacredly maintained...
Page 1475 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Page 1505 - We know that whilst some of them draw the line and strike the harpoon on the coast of Africa, others run the longitude and pursue their gigantic game along the coast of Brazil. No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries ; no climate that is not witness to their toils.
Page 1505 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting-place...
Page 1411 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
Page 1643 - Is there a doubt whether a common government can embrace so large a sphere? Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. We are authorized to hope that a proper organization of the whole, with the auxiliary agency of governments for the respective subdivisions will afford a happy issue to the experiment. It is well worth a fair and full experiment.
Page 1643 - ... -The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. — But, the constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 1611 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Page 1893 - ... short of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the constitution, would be the measure of their powers; that the several states •who formed that Instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...