The Republican Party and Its Presidential Candidates: With Sketches of Fremont and DaytonMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - 512 páginas |
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... consideration by the legislature of Virginia , upon the coming in of a powerful report of a committee of that body to whom the subject had been referred . They were regarded as innovations upon the original policy of the government.
... consideration by the legislature of Virginia , upon the coming in of a powerful report of a committee of that body to whom the subject had been referred . They were regarded as innovations upon the original policy of the government.
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... committee of correspondence of the state of New York , issued a printed appeal to the elec- tors of the United States , calling upon them to withhold their suffrages from Mr. Madison and to bestow them up- on Mr. Clinton . That address ...
... committee of correspondence of the state of New York , issued a printed appeal to the elec- tors of the United States , calling upon them to withhold their suffrages from Mr. Madison and to bestow them up- on Mr. Clinton . That address ...
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... committee appointed by the conven- tion to communicate their resolves to the general govern- ment , but who on learning of the conclusion of the treaty , declined to give them further publicity . They found their way , however , into ...
... committee appointed by the conven- tion to communicate their resolves to the general govern- ment , but who on learning of the conclusion of the treaty , declined to give them further publicity . They found their way , however , into ...
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... committee of the whole in the house of representatives , by a large majority , and re- ceived the votes of the Federalists . Mr. Dallas thereupon assured that body that the issue of so large an amount of treasury notes , receivable in ...
... committee of the whole in the house of representatives , by a large majority , and re- ceived the votes of the Federalists . Mr. Dallas thereupon assured that body that the issue of so large an amount of treasury notes , receivable in ...
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... committee on foreign re- lations . But on the 1st of April , a new minister , General Vives , arrived with ample powers to adjust the difficulty , who after receiving explanations from Mr. Adams , ob- tained for the treaty his majesty's ...
... committee on foreign re- lations . But on the 1st of April , a new minister , General Vives , arrived with ample powers to adjust the difficulty , who after receiving explanations from Mr. Adams , ob- tained for the treaty his majesty's ...
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Página 115 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness...
Página 33 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Página 228 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Página 33 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 415 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Página 421 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their...
Página 99 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 34 - Still one thing more, fellowcitizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 197 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and...
Página 33 - Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth.