Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His LifeJ.F. Brown and W. White, 1837 - 429 páginas |
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... secure did they consider themselves , and so little did they fear from the undisciplined troops with which they had to contend , that an American force , sent out late in the afternoon to arrest their march , found them within their ...
... secure did they consider themselves , and so little did they fear from the undisciplined troops with which they had to contend , that an American force , sent out late in the afternoon to arrest their march , found them within their ...
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... secure the proper responsibility of public agents , and promote efficiency and justice in all its operations . The report of the Secretary of War will make you ac- quainted with the condition of our Army , Fortifications , Arsenals and ...
... secure the proper responsibility of public agents , and promote efficiency and justice in all its operations . The report of the Secretary of War will make you ac- quainted with the condition of our Army , Fortifications , Arsenals and ...
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... secure to that class of troops the ad- vantages which , in this respect , belong to standing armies . I would also suggest a review of the Pension law , for the purpose of extending its benefits to every Revolution- ary soldier who ...
... secure to that class of troops the ad- vantages which , in this respect , belong to standing armies . I would also suggest a review of the Pension law , for the purpose of extending its benefits to every Revolution- ary soldier who ...
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... secure all the advantages to the Government and country that were expected to result from the present Bank . I cannot close this communication without bringing to your view the just claim of the representatives of Com- modore Decatur ...
... secure all the advantages to the Government and country that were expected to result from the present Bank . I cannot close this communication without bringing to your view the just claim of the representatives of Com- modore Decatur ...
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... secure to him the proud appellation of Patriot King - it is not in his success , but in that of the great principle which has borne him to the throne - the paramount authority of the public will - that the American people rejoice . I am ...
... secure to him the proud appellation of Patriot King - it is not in his success , but in that of the great principle which has borne him to the throne - the paramount authority of the public will - that the American people rejoice . I am ...
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Página 48 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Página 249 - 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...
Página 167 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Página 422 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Página 220 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Página 194 - But reasoning on this subject is superfluous when our social compact, in express terms, declares that the laws of the United States, its Constitution, and treaties made under it are the supreme law of the land, and, for greater caution, adds "that the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 191 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Página 167 - Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits ; but have besought us to make them richer by acts of Congress.
Página 48 - In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is matter of right.
Página 207 - Union by the secession of one of its members. When the first was proposed, it was known that it could not be listened to for a moment. It was known, if force was applied to oppose the execution of the laws that it must be repelled by force ; that Congress could not, without involving itself in disgrace and the country in ruin, accede to the proposition ; and yet if this is not done...