Speeches, Messages, and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A Senator in Congress Fronm the State of MississippiJ. B. Smith & Company, 1859 - 614 páginas |
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... submit to taxation to pay them : thus declaring that the will of the majority , and not the Constitution , shall be the measure of power , and virtually making one acknowledged wrong the pretext for committing a still more grievous ...
... submit to taxation to pay them : thus declaring that the will of the majority , and not the Constitution , shall be the measure of power , and virtually making one acknowledged wrong the pretext for committing a still more grievous ...
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... submit to taxation to pay them : thus declaring that the will of the majority , and not the Constitution , shall be the measure of power , and virtually making one acknowledged wrong the pretext for committing a still more grievous ...
... submit to taxation to pay them : thus declaring that the will of the majority , and not the Constitution , shall be the measure of power , and virtually making one acknowledged wrong the pretext for committing a still more grievous ...
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... submit to the consideration of this House . First , As to those claiming under that broad power of providing for the common good , & c . , which , like the mantle of charity , is found to cover a multitude of political sins , your ...
... submit to the consideration of this House . First , As to those claiming under that broad power of providing for the common good , & c . , which , like the mantle of charity , is found to cover a multitude of political sins , your ...
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... submit briefly their views upon the second point : to wit , as to the expediency or propriety of establishing such an institution at this time , and its probable effects upon state banks and local interests . Banks are not money , nor ...
... submit briefly their views upon the second point : to wit , as to the expediency or propriety of establishing such an institution at this time , and its probable effects upon state banks and local interests . Banks are not money , nor ...
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... submit a proposition to honorable gentlemen ; and as I only submit it by way of argument , I beg that gentlemen may not be alarmed . Instead of giving up the powers of government , to be exercised by an invisible moneyed aristocracy ...
... submit a proposition to honorable gentlemen ; and as I only submit it by way of argument , I beg that gentlemen may not be alarmed . Instead of giving up the powers of government , to be exercised by an invisible moneyed aristocracy ...
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Página 178 - Mexicans who, in the Territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States...
Página 133 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 46 - I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul; freeze thy young blood ; Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres; Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood : — List, list, O list!
Página 136 - Delaware, December 7, 1787 ; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787 ; New Jersey, December 18, 1787 ; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788 ; South Carolina, May 23, 1788 ; New...
Página 483 - can nothing be done for freedom because the public conscience is inert?' Yes, much can be done — everything can be done. Slavery can be limited to its present bounds, it can be ameliorated, it can be and must be abolished, and you and I can and must do it.
Página 373 - Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Página 373 - That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Página 538 - White persons of foreign birth, who shall have declared their intention to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States on the subject of naturalization.
Página 133 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Página 465 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...