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 1317
... present price of salt with a duty of ten cents per bushel , it will Since this period the salt works in the Western coun- clearly be seen that the consumer was supplied with this try have been much increased ; and so great was the com ...
... present price of salt with a duty of ten cents per bushel , it will Since this period the salt works in the Western coun- clearly be seen that the consumer was supplied with this try have been much increased ; and so great was the com ...
Page 1339
... present , I should have and helpless Indians . I began to think it was impossible had no occasion to complain of the language of the gentle . that the President , after what he had said and done , could man from Georgia - I rely too ...
... present , I should have and helpless Indians . I began to think it was impossible had no occasion to complain of the language of the gentle . that the President , after what he had said and done , could man from Georgia - I rely too ...
Page 1417
... present question . No manufacturer , no trade , no regular extensive business , in any situation , in this or any other country , can stand so great a change— such a shock . But the gentleman admitted , at the same time , that , as to ...
... present question . No manufacturer , no trade , no regular extensive business , in any situation , in this or any other country , can stand so great a change— such a shock . But the gentleman admitted , at the same time , that , as to ...
Page 1423
... present bill , Leaving the reduction under it , On woollens , thus : Duties by the bill of 1832 , By the present bill , nearly · better able to adjust the details . If the debate , to which we have listened for so long a time , had ...
... present bill , Leaving the reduction under it , On woollens , thus : Duties by the bill of 1832 , By the present bill , nearly · better able to adjust the details . If the debate , to which we have listened for so long a time , had ...
Page 1429
... present my business is not with her . I am dealing ton mills of our country are not calculated to spin it , and with the other Southern States . No one could have watched cannot do it without an entire alteration of their machine- the ...
... present my business is not with her . I am dealing ton mills of our country are not calculated to spin it , and with the other Southern States . No one could have watched cannot do it without an entire alteration of their machine- the ...
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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...