Annual Register, Volumen103Edmund Burke 1862 |
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... became masters of the imperial city of Pekin ; and the Earl of Elgin and Baron Gros , the Ambassador of the Emperor of the French , were enabled to obtain an honourable and satis- factory settlement of all matters in dispute ...
... became masters of the imperial city of Pekin ; and the Earl of Elgin and Baron Gros , the Ambassador of the Emperor of the French , were enabled to obtain an honourable and satis- factory settlement of all matters in dispute ...
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... became unhap- pily necessary for this country to go to war , measures ought to be adopted on the largest and most complete scale in order to bring that war to a satisfactory and rapid conclusion . This course VOL . CIII .募 had been ...
... became unhap- pily necessary for this country to go to war , measures ought to be adopted on the largest and most complete scale in order to bring that war to a satisfactory and rapid conclusion . This course VOL . CIII .募 had been ...
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... became a financial question . The alleged pledge of 1858 was , he contended , no pledge at all . There was an understood condition that the war duties should be first re- moved . We had now an income- tax of 9d . and war taxes on tea ...
... became a financial question . The alleged pledge of 1858 was , he contended , no pledge at all . There was an understood condition that the war duties should be first re- moved . We had now an income- tax of 9d . and war taxes on tea ...
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... became necessary to allow no evasion , but to enforce that ob- servance if any intercourse at all were to be carried on . If the Chinese once entertained the idea that we would depart from the words of the treaty , they would circumvent ...
... became necessary to allow no evasion , but to enforce that ob- servance if any intercourse at all were to be carried on . If the Chinese once entertained the idea that we would depart from the words of the treaty , they would circumvent ...
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... became the subject of Parliamentary discussion was , the occupation of Syria by the French force , which had taken place pursuant to a convention with the British Government in consequence of the calamitous events in that country , of ...
... became the subject of Parliamentary discussion was , the occupation of Syria by the French force , which had taken place pursuant to a convention with the British Government in consequence of the calamitous events in that country , of ...
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Página 212 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Página 213 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 212 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules; and while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations, to conform to and abide by all those acts which stand unrepealed than to violate any of them trusting to find impunity in having them held to be unconstitutional.
Página 217 - We therefore have thought fit, by and with the advice of our Privy Council, to issue this our Royal Proclamation. " And we do hereby strictly charge and command all our loving subjects...
Página 205 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Página 214 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. " You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to ' preserve, protect, and defend
Página 212 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak ; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Página 213 - States, including that of persons held to service. To avoid misconstruction of what I have said, I depart from my purpose not to speak of particular amendments so far as to say that, holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.
Página 210 - ... I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Página 259 - Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable...