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 IndexGales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... effect . ed on the part of the Senate , to wait on the Presi- dent of the United States , and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled , and ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make to them . Mr. KING ...
... effect . ed on the part of the Senate , to wait on the Presi- dent of the United States , and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses is assembled , and ready to receive any communications he may be pleased to make to them . Mr. KING ...
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... effects of the one , with the cruelty , yet in- due to that House from this , as to wait until it effectual operation ... effect . The resolution was agreed to without objection . ADMISSION OF MISSOURI . The Senate , according to the ...
... effects of the one , with the cruelty , yet in- due to that House from this , as to wait until it effectual operation ... effect . The resolution was agreed to without objection . ADMISSION OF MISSOURI . The Senate , according to the ...
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... effect which the proviso would produce . Such a decla- ration could not weaken the effect of the repug- nant article of the constitution adopted by Mis- souri , or alter in any respect , he conceived , the question as it already stood ...
... effect which the proviso would produce . Such a decla- ration could not weaken the effect of the repug- nant article of the constitution adopted by Mis- souri , or alter in any respect , he conceived , the question as it already stood ...
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... effect . Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois , are now thinly populated and little cultivated . Vast tracts of land in them are owned by the Uni- ted States . The State of Virginia , for example , might purchase some millions of acres and ...
... effect . Ohio , Indiana , and Illinois , are now thinly populated and little cultivated . Vast tracts of land in them are owned by the Uni- ted States . The State of Virginia , for example , might purchase some millions of acres and ...
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... effect , and yet every principle advanced by him remains impregnable . On the whole , he said , he had no ambition to be distinguished as a zealot in the cause of eman- cipation , or an advocate for a sudden change of condition in that ...
... effect , and yet every principle advanced by him remains impregnable . On the whole , he said , he had no ambition to be distinguished as a zealot in the cause of eman- cipation , or an advocate for a sudden change of condition in that ...
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Admission of Missouri admitted Alabama amendment amount army authority bank bankrupt BARBOUR bill citizens clause Committee of Claims Committee on Public Congress constitution of Missouri court debt DECEMBER declared district District of Columbia dollars duty entitled An act establish expediency favor free negroes gentleman Government granted Holmes honorable House of Representatives JANUARY Johnson Judiciary Kentucky last session Legislature liberty Louisiana LOWNDES Massachusetts Matthew Lyon memorial 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 731 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 543 - 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 111 - 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 55 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Página 337 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Página 731 - ... 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 607 - States in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State...
Página 671 - 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 783 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion. Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home.
Página 93 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...