Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: May 24, 1813-March 3, 1817D. Appleton, 1857 - Law |
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... reasons of that decree being concealed from this Government and its Ministers for so long a time after its date ... reason of the novelty of the form . The gentleman says his object is particular information . If information only be ...
... reasons of that decree being concealed from this Government and its Ministers for so long a time after its date ... reason of the novelty of the form . The gentleman says his object is particular information . If information only be ...
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... reason , " ( and we had abundant proof ] ceed cautiously , evincing a delicacy of honor , a that skilful sophists were on the floor , ) it was nice sensibility , on a question which is to decide not in the power of human ingenuity ...
... reason , " ( and we had abundant proof ] ceed cautiously , evincing a delicacy of honor , a that skilful sophists were on the floor , ) it was nice sensibility , on a question which is to decide not in the power of human ingenuity ...
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... reasons entirely different from those which have been assigned by gentlemen who have preceded me . I shall vote for them to do away the effect which has been produced , and may again be produced , by the misrepresenta- tions of the ...
... reasons entirely different from those which have been assigned by gentlemen who have preceded me . I shall vote for them to do away the effect which has been produced , and may again be produced , by the misrepresenta- tions of the ...
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... reasons which have determined me to vote against the resolutions under considera - between those nations and this ; in ... reason , which ought to govern all nations , and which , under the name of national law , had been acknowledged by ...
... reasons which have determined me to vote against the resolutions under considera - between those nations and this ; in ... reason , which ought to govern all nations , and which , under the name of national law , had been acknowledged by ...
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... reason . It has been contended by some of those who support these resolutions , that , if the Orders in Council had been repealed , we would not have gone to war on account of the doctrine and practice of impressment ; and they infer ...
... reason . It has been contended by some of those who support these resolutions , that , if the Orders in Council had been repealed , we would not have gone to war on account of the doctrine and practice of impressment ; and they infer ...
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Page 160 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 238 - 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 158 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 257 - ... that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty and particularly by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before a citizen or subject...
Page 291 - I have considered the subject of the letter which you did me the honor to address to me on the 9th...
Page 238 - ... counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor...
Page 16 - That a committee of three Members be appointed on the part of the House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.
Page 99 - So often and so essentially have we heretofore suffered from the want of secrecy and. dispatch that the Constitution would have been inexcusably defective if no attention had been paid to those objects.
Page 10 - that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate copies,
Page 84 - March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used...