The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Volumen3Gales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... object of that law having been merely to countervail the inequalities which existed to the dis- advantage of the United States , in their commercial intercourse with France , it is submitted , also , to the consideration of Congress ...
... object of that law having been merely to countervail the inequalities which existed to the dis- advantage of the United States , in their commercial intercourse with France , it is submitted , also , to the consideration of Congress ...
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... object of solicitude with all the colonization and abolition societies , and all the friends of freedom and humanity . Slaves would be manumitted if they could be transported . But to let them loose among an already crowded free black ...
... object of solicitude with all the colonization and abolition societies , and all the friends of freedom and humanity . Slaves would be manumitted if they could be transported . But to let them loose among an already crowded free black ...
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... object is unat- tainable . I would also add , that every difficulty of this kind which could possibly have arisen might have been avoided by precautions similar to those ob- served by Maine . She , in the first place , peti- tioned the ...
... object is unat- tainable . I would also add , that every difficulty of this kind which could possibly have arisen might have been avoided by precautions similar to those ob- served by Maine . She , in the first place , peti- tioned the ...
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... object within the limits of the new States . Mr. NOBLE , from the Committee on Pensions , to whom was referred the petition of Alexander Irwin , made a report , accompanied by a resolution , that the prayer of the petitioner ought not ...
... object within the limits of the new States . Mr. NOBLE , from the Committee on Pensions , to whom was referred the petition of Alexander Irwin , made a report , accompanied by a resolution , that the prayer of the petitioner ought not ...
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... object should be to diminish the debt , which can be accomplished justly in two ways- 1st . By permitting purchasers who are unable to pay for the whole of their lands , to relinquish a part of them , upon equitable terms . 2d . By ...
... object should be to diminish the debt , which can be accomplished justly in two ways- 1st . By permitting purchasers who are unable to pay for the whole of their lands , to relinquish a part of them , upon equitable terms . 2d . By ...
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Admission of Missouri admitted Alabama amendment amount army authority bank bankrupt BARBOUR Baron de Kalb bill citizens clause Committee of Claims Committee on Public Congress constitution of Missouri court debt DECEMBER declared district dollars duty entitled An act establish expediency favor free negroes gentleman Government granted gress Holmes honorable House of Representatives JANUARY Johnson Judiciary Kentucky last session Legislature liberty Louisiana LOWNDES Massachusetts Matthew Lyon ment military militia Mississippi mittee motion nation negroes and mulattoes object officers opinion passed payment persons petition was read postponed praying presented the petition President principles privileges proceeded to consider proposed provisions Public Lands question read the third referred relief resolution Resolved Rhode Island Secretary Secretary of War Senate proceeded Senate resumed SMITH souri South Carolina stitution submitted Tennessee Territory tion Treasury Treaty of Ghent TRIMBLE Union United Virginia vote whole Williams York
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Página 539 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress , assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Página 59 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 667 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Página 771 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Página 413 - That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Página 719 - Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus ; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 105 - ... the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states ; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of -trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Página 483 - French, did then and there feloniously and willfully kill, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the people of the state of New York and their dignity.
Página 57 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Página 771 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid...