Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and Seatons' Annals of Congress; from Their Register of Debates; and from the Official Reported Debates, by John C. Rives, Volumen1D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... opinions of these two eminent jurists of the value of these Annals , and the qualifications of the publishers for their task , and the merits of their work , is to be added the encouraging opinion of Mr. Madison , given at the ...
... opinions of these two eminent jurists of the value of these Annals , and the qualifications of the publishers for their task , and the merits of their work , is to be added the encouraging opinion of Mr. Madison , given at the ...
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... opinion of the committee , it will be proper thus to address the President : His Highness , the President of the United States of America , and Protector of their Liberties . " Which report was postponed ; and the fol- lowing resolve ...
... opinion of the committee , it will be proper thus to address the President : His Highness , the President of the United States of America , and Protector of their Liberties . " Which report was postponed ; and the fol- lowing resolve ...
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... opinion , be not only less complex and difficult in its formation , but likewise easier and more certain in its operation ; because the more simple a plan of revenue is , the easier it becomes understood and executed : and it is , sir ...
... opinion , be not only less complex and difficult in its formation , but likewise easier and more certain in its operation ; because the more simple a plan of revenue is , the easier it becomes understood and executed : and it is , sir ...
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... opinion we shall not be able to obtain any revenue whatsoever if the tax is laid so high . The question was put upon thirty - three and one - third cents as the highest sum , and agreed to , being twenty - one votes for it , and ...
... opinion we shall not be able to obtain any revenue whatsoever if the tax is laid so high . The question was put upon thirty - three and one - third cents as the highest sum , and agreed to , being twenty - one votes for it , and ...
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... opinion ; but if they are odious from opinion , they ought to be carefully guard- ed against , especially if the Government de- pends upon opinion for support . Mr. SMITH , of Maryland , said , they collected eight cents in his State ...
... opinion ; but if they are odious from opinion , they ought to be carefully guard- ed against , especially if the Government de- pends upon opinion for support . Mr. SMITH , of Maryland , said , they collected eight cents in his State ...
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Página 12 - ... flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me...
Página 417 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Página 169 - Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Página 169 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Página 12 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years...
Página 169 - ... there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.
Página 250 - Union and of concord among the States was more important, and that therefore it would be better that the vote of rejection should be rescinded, to effect which some members should change their votes. But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them.
Página 45 - When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the chair, by the person by whom it may be sent.
Página 109 - President to give, from time to time, to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Página 208 - Under these impressions, they earnestly entreat your serious attention to the subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage...