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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... demand for specie to There is an outcry abroad , raised by faction , and echoed by folly , against the banks of the United States . Until it was disturbed by the States was at least as good as that of any other government , the banking ...
... demand for specie to There is an outcry abroad , raised by faction , and echoed by folly , against the banks of the United States . Until it was disturbed by the States was at least as good as that of any other government , the banking ...
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... demand its a wise man - to ask him what was to happen ? repeal . But , gentlemen , I feel it my duty to say , and what they were to do ? And so in fact it that if I should be disappointed in this expecta- was , as fully disclosed in the ...
... demand its a wise man - to ask him what was to happen ? repeal . But , gentlemen , I feel it my duty to say , and what they were to do ? And so in fact it that if I should be disappointed in this expecta- was , as fully disclosed in the ...
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... demand as an obligation of necessity , as well as of duty , and from which such a community could not escape , if it would . The nature of the action which was so vehemently desired , could not be mistaken . I hold it a fair ...
... demand as an obligation of necessity , as well as of duty , and from which such a community could not escape , if it would . The nature of the action which was so vehemently desired , could not be mistaken . I hold it a fair ...
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... demand a redress of grievances was not sanctioned . The committee of fifty was deemed sufficient , as they certainly ... demands in writing , and a paragraph from it will show the degree to which the feeling of the city had allowed ...
... demand a redress of grievances was not sanctioned . The committee of fifty was deemed sufficient , as they certainly ... demands in writing , and a paragraph from it will show the degree to which the feeling of the city had allowed ...
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... demand its repeal , to denounce the members who voted for it , and to call for inves- tigation into the manner in which it passed . Of course , the legislature which passed it was in no haste to respond to these demands ; but their ...
... demand its repeal , to denounce the members who voted for it , and to call for inves- tigation into the manner in which it passed . Of course , the legislature which passed it was in no haste to respond to these demands ; but their ...
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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.