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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... thousand dollars in the treasury . Governor Brown zealously advocated the cause of education . His messages , and other papers , are interspersed with reflections , sugges- tions , and earnest appeals on this interesting subject ...
... thousand dollars in the treasury . Governor Brown zealously advocated the cause of education . His messages , and other papers , are interspersed with reflections , sugges- tions , and earnest appeals on this interesting subject ...
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... thousand dollars • BOUNTY LAND BILL - Speech in the House of Representatives , May 8 , 1848 · EXTRA PRINTED DOCUMENTS - Speech in the House of Representatives , May 8 , 1848 , on the distribution of extra printed documents TERRITORIAL ...
... thousand dollars • BOUNTY LAND BILL - Speech in the House of Representatives , May 8 , 1848 · EXTRA PRINTED DOCUMENTS - Speech in the House of Representatives , May 8 , 1848 , on the distribution of extra printed documents TERRITORIAL ...
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... thousand voices from every point of the compass answering , No ! No ! We want no foreign subject fattening on our ... thousands of hungry expectants waited at their doors , ready to rush in and devour their little substance ; and if ...
... thousand voices from every point of the compass answering , No ! No ! We want no foreign subject fattening on our ... thousands of hungry expectants waited at their doors , ready to rush in and devour their little substance ; and if ...
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... thousand dollars for a service which , ten years ago , could have been performed for one- half the amount . A contractor who , in 1839 , would have carried the mail from Washington to Frederick for two thousand dollars , would , in 1840 ...
... thousand dollars for a service which , ten years ago , could have been performed for one- half the amount . A contractor who , in 1839 , would have carried the mail from Washington to Frederick for two thousand dollars , would , in 1840 ...
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... thousand freemen , any one of whom is qualified for the first office in the gift of this great republic ; for they live in log - cabins , in fact , cabins unlike the general's - which , in sooth , looks very like a splendid country ...
... thousand freemen , any one of whom is qualified for the first office in the gift of this great republic ; for they live in log - cabins , in fact , cabins unlike the general's - which , in sooth , looks very like a splendid country ...
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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...