A New Guide to WashingtonR. Farnham, 1842 - 221 páginas |
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Página 36 - I consider it an indispensable duty to close this last act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them to his holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action, and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life.
Página 26 - States, and the decision is against their validity, or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States...
Página 66 - This is the desert, this the solitude: How populous, how vital is the grave! This is creation's melancholy vault, The vale funereal, the sad cypress gloom; The land of apparitions, empty shades! All, all on earth, is shadow, all beyond Is substance; the reverse is folly's creed; How solid all, where change shall be no more!
Página 26 - State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, and the decision is against their validity ; or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, any State, on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties or laws of the United States, and the decision is in...
Página 67 - Death is the crown of life ! Were death denied, poor man would live in vain : Were death denied, to live would not be life : Were death denied, even fools would wish to die. Death wounds to cure ; we fall, we rise, we reign ! Spring from our fetters, fasten in the skies, Where blooming Eden withers in our sight. Death gives us more than was in Eden lost : This king of terrors is the prince of peace.
Página 26 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution. or of a treaty, or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said constitution, treaty, statute or commission...
Página 26 - That the Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies of a civil nature, where a state is a party, except between a state and its citizens; and except also between a state and citizens of other states, or aliens, in which latter case it shall have original but not exclusive jurisdiction.
Página 73 - But no person shall be arrested in one district for trial in another in any civil action before a circuit or district court...
Página 26 - States authorizes the supreme court " to issue writs of mandamus, in cases warranted by the principles and usages of law, to any courts appointed, or persons holding office, under the authority of the United States.
Página 44 - It is the birth of my thought. I have sacrificed to it the flower of my days and the freshness of my strength. Its every lineament has been moistened with the sweat of my toil and the tears of my exile — I would not barter away its association with my name for the proudest fortune that avarice ever dreamed.