The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United StatesGales and Seaton, 1853 |
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... gentlemen who support the bill do not precisely accord in sentiment . The gentleman from Vermont ( Mr. BRADLEY ) has frankly conceded that the United States ac- quired no title under the Treaty of St. Ildefonso . Another gentleman ( Mr ...
... gentlemen who support the bill do not precisely accord in sentiment . The gentleman from Vermont ( Mr. BRADLEY ) has frankly conceded that the United States ac- quired no title under the Treaty of St. Ildefonso . Another gentleman ( Mr ...
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... gentleman from Kentucky , ( Mr. POPE , ) pressed by this argument , could only get round it by alleging that the original treaty between France and Spain was dated in 1761 , prior to the settlement of the line and the cessions to Great ...
... gentleman from Kentucky , ( Mr. POPE , ) pressed by this argument , could only get round it by alleging that the original treaty between France and Spain was dated in 1761 , prior to the settlement of the line and the cessions to Great ...
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... gentleman from Kentucky has told us that Europe is now in a state of barbarism , and has emphatically asked , are we to sit here and cavil about questions of right ? What , sir , if Europe has become barbarous , is that a reason why ...
... gentleman from Kentucky has told us that Europe is now in a state of barbarism , and has emphatically asked , are we to sit here and cavil about questions of right ? What , sir , if Europe has become barbarous , is that a reason why ...
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... gentleman's con- duct ; and any individual would hereafter , if in- clined , follow his example without hesitation . Again - if the President could not have some de- gree of security that the documents confidentially communicated to ...
... gentleman's con- duct ; and any individual would hereafter , if in- clined , follow his example without hesitation . Again - if the President could not have some de- gree of security that the documents confidentially communicated to ...
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... gentlemen of the Senate , who had not , at least , within a few years past , heard the gentleman from Massachusetts express an opinion more favorable to the French Govern- ment . After which he read the letter - and an inquiry was then ...
... gentlemen of the Senate , who had not , at least , within a few years past , heard the gentleman from Massachusetts express an opinion more favorable to the French Govern- ment . After which he read the letter - and an inquiry was then ...
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Página 521 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Página 573 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish 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, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Página 545 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Página 525 - If this bill passes, it is my deliberate opinion that it is virtually a dissolution of this Union ; that it will free the States from their moral obligation ; and as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Página 531 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 315 - Neither the debts due from individuals of the one nation to individuals of the other, nor shares, nor monies which they may have in the public funds, or in the public or private banks, shall ever in any event of war or national differences be sequestered or confiscated...
Página 273 - Municipal law, thus understood, is properly defined to be a 'rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state, commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong.
Página 525 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that, if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation; amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Página 579 - Provided always, That the three foregoing propositions herein offered are on the conditions that the convention of the said State shall provide, by an ordinance irrevocable without the consent of the United States...
Página 695 - Congress a power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises ; to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence, and general welfare of the United States, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States...