Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volumen2,Parte2;Volumen45Gales & Seaton, 1825 |
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... occasion , but little remains to be said upon this important subject . And I should , Sir , upon this , as I have done upon other occasions , have contented myself to have given a silent vote , but for the acknowledged im- portance of ...
... occasion , but little remains to be said upon this important subject . And I should , Sir , upon this , as I have done upon other occasions , have contented myself to have given a silent vote , but for the acknowledged im- portance of ...
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... occasion , appeal to the feelings , and summon to my aid the sympathies of other States . Vigo- rous Vermont , though yet in your infancy , your powerment , for a country of such extent and diversity of inter- has been curtailed , and ...
... occasion , appeal to the feelings , and summon to my aid the sympathies of other States . Vigo- rous Vermont , though yet in your infancy , your powerment , for a country of such extent and diversity of inter- has been curtailed , and ...
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... occasion ; but he felt himself im- Mr. POWELL said he rose with great reluctance pelled by a sense of duty to take a part in the discussion of this question . Belonging to the Committee of Elections , before whom this subject had for ...
... occasion ; but he felt himself im- Mr. POWELL said he rose with great reluctance pelled by a sense of duty to take a part in the discussion of this question . Belonging to the Committee of Elections , before whom this subject had for ...
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... occasion some difficulty , and probably the greatest which may be found , in settling down upon any given proposition ; but it certainly does not prove that the attempt ought not seriously to be made ; on the contrary , it is but ...
... occasion some difficulty , and probably the greatest which may be found , in settling down upon any given proposition ; but it certainly does not prove that the attempt ought not seriously to be made ; on the contrary , it is but ...
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... occasion , he claimed for us , as a matter of right , all the privileges which had been granted to them ; and declared , as the foundation of this demand , that we stood pledged to protect them against any attack which might be made ...
... occasion , he claimed for us , as a matter of right , all the privileges which had been granted to them ; and declared , as the foundation of this demand , that we stood pledged to protect them against any attack which might be made ...
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Página 1725 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Página 1669 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 2157 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Página 1737 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Página 2159 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected...
Página 2159 - ... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Página 2157 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Página 2237 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Página 2037 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Página 2083 - ... latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld...