The Life and Public Services of Dr. Lewis F. Linn: For Ten Years a Senator of the United States from the State of MissouriD. Appleton, 1857 - 441 páginas |
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Página 133 - With the president's opinion; and by appointing his successor to effect such removal, which has been done, the president has assumed the. exercise of a power over the treasury of the United States not granted to him by the constitution and laws, and ' dangerous to the liberties of the people.
Página 158 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Página 384 - Saviour, to xnourn, not for the dead, but for the living ; " the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, and blessed be the name of the Lord : " he doeth all things well, although we, poor frail mortals, cannot refrain from grief on such afflicting occasions.
Página 383 - That these proceedings be signed by the chairman and secretary of the meeting, and that a copy of the same be transmitted to the family...
Página 156 - Union and to their fellow-citizens of the same blood in the South have given so strong and impressive a tone to the sentiments entertained against the proceedings of the misguided persons who have engaged in these unconstitutional and wicked attempts...
Página 413 - Human happiness has no perfect security but freedom; freedom none but virtue; virtue, none but knowledge; and neither freedom, nor virtue, nor knowledge has any vigor, or immortal hope, except in the principles of the Christian faith, and in the sanctions of the Christian religion.
Página 384 - He cannot return to us, my dear friend, but let us prepare to meet him in a happy immortality, where the wicked cease to trouble and the weary are at rest.
Página 200 - Mountains would be essentially promoted. To carry this object into effect the appropriation of an adequate sum to authorize the employment of a frigate, with an officer of the Corps of Engineers, to explore the mouth of the Columbia River and the coast contiguous thereto, to enable the Executive to make such establishment at the most suitable point, is recommended to Congress.
Página 199 - In looking to the interests which the United States have on the Pacific Ocean and on the western coast of this continent, the propriety of establishing a military post at the mouth of Columbia River, or at some other point in that quarter within our acknowledged limits, is submitted to the consideration of Congress.
Página 155 - ... publications, calculated to stimulate them to insurrection, and to produce all the horrors of a servile war. There is, doubtless, no respectable portion of our countrymen who can...