Select American Speeches: Forensic and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks : Being a Sequel to Dr. Chapman's Select Speeches, Volumen2J. W. Campbell, 1815 |
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... British Treaty , Fisher Ames's Speech , on the same subject , Governeur Morris's Speech in the Senate of the United States , on the Judiciary Establishment , 1 23 · 62 Mr. Rutledge's Speech in the House of Representatives of the United ...
... British Treaty , Fisher Ames's Speech , on the same subject , Governeur Morris's Speech in the Senate of the United States , on the Judiciary Establishment , 1 23 · 62 Mr. Rutledge's Speech in the House of Representatives of the United ...
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... BRITISH TREATY , 15th APRIL , 1794 . The Question - Resolved , as the opinion of this Committee , that it is expedient to pass the laws necessary for carrying into effect the Treaty with Great Britain . EVERY man who pretends to be ...
... BRITISH TREATY , 15th APRIL , 1794 . The Question - Resolved , as the opinion of this Committee , that it is expedient to pass the laws necessary for carrying into effect the Treaty with Great Britain . EVERY man who pretends to be ...
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... expected , that the arrangements for carrying that treaty into effect would have been founded on the most exact , scrupulous and equitable reciprocity . - But , has this been the case , sir ? I venture to say that the British Treaty . S.
... expected , that the arrangements for carrying that treaty into effect would have been founded on the most exact , scrupulous and equitable reciprocity . - But , has this been the case , sir ? I venture to say that the British Treaty . S.
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... British . The second that which provided for the surrender to the United States of the posts so long withheld by them on our territory . The article that remained unexecuted on the part of the United States was that which stipulated for ...
... British . The second that which provided for the surrender to the United States of the posts so long withheld by them on our territory . The article that remained unexecuted on the part of the United States was that which stipulated for ...
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... British , apologies had also been lamely attempted ; and these apologies de- manded consideration . It is said to be at least doubtful whether this claim was ever authorised by the seventh article of the treaty of peace , and that Great ...
... British , apologies had also been lamely attempted ; and these apologies de- manded consideration . It is said to be at least doubtful whether this claim was ever authorised by the seventh article of the treaty of peace , and that Great ...
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Página 335 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied — that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose — all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Página 91 - If they were to make a law not warranted by any of the powers enumerated, it would be considered by the judges as an infringement of the constitution which they are to guard. They would not consider such a law as coming under their jurisdiction. They would declare it void.
Página 314 - Such was the state of Eden when the serpent entered its bowers. The prisoner, in a more engaging form, winding himself into the open and unpractised heart of the unfortunate...
Página 202 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty, or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is...
Página 315 - Yet this unfortunate man, thus deluded from his interest and his happiness, thus seduced from the paths of innocence and peace, thus confounded in the toils that were deliberately spread for him, and overwhelmed by the mastering spirit and genius of another — this man, thus ruined and undone and made to play a subordinate part in this grand drama of guilt and treason, this man is to be called the principal offender, while he, by whom he was thus plunged in misery, is comparatively innocent, a mere...
Página 52 - On this theme, my emotions are unutterable. If I could find words for them — if my powers bore any proportion to my zeal — I would swell my voice to such a note of remonstrance it should reach every log-house beyond the mountains.
Página 59 - Let us not hesitate then to agree to the appropriation to carry it into faithful execution. Thus we shall save the faith of our nation, secure its peace, and diffuse the spirit of confidence and enterprise that will augment its prosperity. The progress of wealth and improvement is wonderful, and, some will think, too rapid. The field for exertion is fruitful and...
Página 313 - Blennerhassett's character, that on his arrival in America he retired even from the population of the Atlantic States, and sought quiet and solitude in the bosom of our Western forests.
Página 309 - ... escape of those who are more immediately engaged. They are all, provided the fact be committed, in the eye of the law present at it; for it was made a common cause with them, each man operated in his station at one and the same instant towards the same common end; and the part each man took tended to give countenance, encouragement and protection to the whole gang, and to insure the success of their common enterprise.
Página 90 - In a monarchy it is an excellent barrier to the despotism of the prince ; in a republic it is a no less excellent barrier to the encroachments and oppressions of the representative body. And it is the best expedient which can be devised in any government, to secure a steady, upright, and impartial administration of the laws.