Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850. Chiefly Taken from the Congress Debates, the Private Papers of General Jackson, and the Speeches of Ex-Senator Benton, with His Actual View of the Men and Affairs: with Historical Notes and Illustrations, and Some Notices of Eminent Deceased Contemporaries, Volumen2Appleton, 1856 |
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... continued cheers greeted the great statesman at every point . There was not a greater number at the recep- tion of General Jackson in this city , with the exception of the military , nor a greater degree and rarity as to call out upon ...
... continued cheers greeted the great statesman at every point . There was not a greater number at the recep- tion of General Jackson in this city , with the exception of the military , nor a greater degree and rarity as to call out upon ...
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... continued specie payments , ple ? Has the government a single hard dollar ? if it had only consulted its own strength " - Has the treasury any thing in the world but " only suspended from a sense of duty and credit and deposits in banks ...
... continued specie payments , ple ? Has the government a single hard dollar ? if it had only consulted its own strength " - Has the treasury any thing in the world but " only suspended from a sense of duty and credit and deposits in banks ...
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... continued from motives of conveni- intelligence and temper of the American people , ence ; but these causes have long since passed who suppose that they have continued , on slight away . We have no emergencies that make banks or ...
... continued from motives of conveni- intelligence and temper of the American people , ence ; but these causes have long since passed who suppose that they have continued , on slight away . We have no emergencies that make banks or ...
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... continued specie payments with- out reserve , but felt it proper to follow the ex- ample which had been set . All this was known to be a fiction at the time ; and the events were soon to come , to prove it to be so . As early as the ...
... continued specie payments with- out reserve , but felt it proper to follow the ex- ample which had been set . All this was known to be a fiction at the time ; and the events were soon to come , to prove it to be so . As early as the ...
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... continued in force , or the two bills just referred to , if they had become law , would have operated upon these bankers and their banks — would have stopped their issues , and put their establish- ments into the hands of assignees ...
... continued in force , or the two bills just referred to , if they had become law , would have operated upon these bankers and their banks — would have stopped their issues , and put their establish- ments into the hands of assignees ...
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Página 244 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
Página 452 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 448 - Governments shall have power, jurisdiction, and authority, upon complaint made under oath, to issue a warrant for the apprehension of the fugitive or person so charged, that he may be brought before such judges or other magistrates, respectively, to the end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered; and if, on such hearing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge...
Página 8 - I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slaveholding States, and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the States where it exists.
Página 177 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States, and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever, from any king, prince or foreign state.
Página 448 - The expense of such apprehension and delivery shall be borne and defrayed by the Party who makes the requisition and receives the fugitive.
Página 244 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Página 448 - It is agreed that the United States and her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder...
Página 359 - That a committee of three on the part of the Senate, and five on the part of the House, be appointed to prepare such address, and submit it to a meeting of tho whigs on Monday morning next, the 13th inst., at half past 8 o'clock.
Página 158 - And, like a notorious agitator upon another theatre, they would hunt down and proscribe from the pale of civilized society, the inhabitants of that entire section.