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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... expressed apprehension ; and at these there was not the slightest ground for fear . No one in Congress dreamed of inter- fering with slavery in the States , and the abor - its vaticination . Two parties , inimical to the tion of all the ...
... expressed apprehension ; and at these there was not the slightest ground for fear . No one in Congress dreamed of inter- fering with slavery in the States , and the abor - its vaticination . Two parties , inimical to the tion of all the ...
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... expression of opinion with the exposition of my reasons for thinking so : but the interview came to a sudden and unexpected termination . Hardly had I expressed my be- lief of this impending catastrophe , than he spoke up , and said ...
... expression of opinion with the exposition of my reasons for thinking so : but the interview came to a sudden and unexpected termination . Hardly had I expressed my be- lief of this impending catastrophe , than he spoke up , and said ...
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... expression quoted was out their depreciated notes as the currency of a most rare departure , and his real regard for the federal treasury . me , both personal and political ( for at that time he was pressing me to become a member of his ...
... expression quoted was out their depreciated notes as the currency of a most rare departure , and his real regard for the federal treasury . me , both personal and political ( for at that time he was pressing me to become a member of his ...
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... expressed , has clearly denounced it as ruinous to the best interests of the coun- try ) has already caused the ruin ... expression of the counte- nance , 16 THIRTY YEARS ' VIEW . Progress of the Distress, and Preliminaries for the ...
... expressed , has clearly denounced it as ruinous to the best interests of the coun- try ) has already caused the ruin ... expression of the counte- nance , 16 THIRTY YEARS ' VIEW . Progress of the Distress, and Preliminaries for the ...
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... expression of the counte- nance , to translate the emotions of the heart , could have looked upon the faces and the bear- ing of the multitude assembled last evening , and not have felt that there were fires smouldering there , which a ...
... expression of the counte- nance , to translate the emotions of the heart , could have looked upon the faces and the bear- ing of the multitude assembled last evening , and not have felt that there were fires smouldering there , which a ...
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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.