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Página 1187
... reason from things false to things true ; that the falsehood of a witness is not un- frequently an unerring clue to ... reasons best known to them- selves , I suppose from that infatuation which sometimes attends the movement of ...
... reason from things false to things true ; that the falsehood of a witness is not un- frequently an unerring clue to ... reasons best known to them- selves , I suppose from that infatuation which sometimes attends the movement of ...
Página 1189
... reason for her jealousy ; we have predicted over and over again , that we shall , at one time or other , clip her maritime wing . She believes it ; and the existence of the nation depends on her preventing it . Mr. SMILIE said the ...
... reason for her jealousy ; we have predicted over and over again , that we shall , at one time or other , clip her maritime wing . She believes it ; and the existence of the nation depends on her preventing it . Mr. SMILIE said the ...
Página 1205
... reason , Florida Territory . It gave to the State of Lou- ought to be cause sufficient to reject this offered isiana about three - fourths , perhaps four - fifths , of amendment ; that interference of a Government the population of the ...
... reason , Florida Territory . It gave to the State of Lou- ought to be cause sufficient to reject this offered isiana about three - fourths , perhaps four - fifths , of amendment ; that interference of a Government the population of the ...
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... reason for refusing to the Executive the opportunity to make a proper selection . Mr. LACOCK said , as it had been intimated that the House were about to enter into a three days ' discussion of this subject , it was scarcely worth while ...
... reason for refusing to the Executive the opportunity to make a proper selection . Mr. LACOCK said , as it had been intimated that the House were about to enter into a three days ' discussion of this subject , it was scarcely worth while ...
Página 1247
... reason for objection to such inquiry . We had seen in his- tory and experience enough of packed juries to guard against them , as far as possible , and to in- duce us to secure the primary rights of the citizen . Mr. PITKIN could see no ...
... reason for objection to such inquiry . We had seen in his- tory and experience enough of packed juries to guard against them , as far as possible , and to in- duce us to secure the primary rights of the citizen . Mr. PITKIN could see no ...
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Página 1629 - We behold, in fine, on the side of Great Britain, a state of war against the United States ; and on the side of the United States, a state of peace towards Great Britain.
Página 1787 - And whereas the Senate of the United States have approved of the said arrangement and recommended that it should be carried into effect, the same having also received the sanction of His Royal Highness, the Prince Regent, acting in the name and on the behalf of His...
Página 1715 - It has become, indeed, sufficiently certain that the commerce of the United States is to be sacrificed, not as interfering with the belligerent rights of Great Britain; not as supplying the wants of her enemies, which she herself supplies ; but as interfering with the monopoly which she covets for her own commerce and navigation.
Página 1625 - British cruisers have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right founded on the law of nations against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects.
Página 1353 - An Act to establish an Executive Department, to be denominated the Department of War...
Página 1627 - Such is the spectacle of injuries and indignities which have been heaped on our country, and such the crisis which its unexampled forbearance and conciliatory efforts have not been able to avert.
Página 1713 - British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign, which falls within the definition of war. Could the seizure of British subjects, in such cases, be regarded as within the exercise of a belligerent right...
Página 1201 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 1625 - ... vessels in a situation where no laws can operate but the law of nations and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong ; and a self-redress is assumed which, if British subjects were wrongfully detained and alone concerned, is that substitution of force for a resort to the responsible sovereign which falls within the definition of war.
Página 1629 - ... them protection. We behold our vessels freighted with the products of our soil and industry, or returning with the honest proceeds of them, wrested from their lawful destinations, confiscated by prize courts, no longer the organs of public law, but the instruments of arbitrary edicts, and their unfortunate crews dispersed and lost, or forced or inveigled in British ports into British fleets...