Annual Register, Volumen103Edmund Burke 1862 |
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... thought it right to exercise any active interference in those matters . Papers on this subject will be laid before you . " I announced to you , at the close of the last Session of Par- liament , that the atrocities which had then ...
... thought it right to exercise any active interference in those matters . Papers on this subject will be laid before you . " I announced to you , at the close of the last Session of Par- liament , that the atrocities which had then ...
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... thought at the time that was a strong step to take , and then insinuated that Lord John had forgotten to act upon his own counsel to Lord Lord Palmerston , and obtain the Queen's sanction . Having argued that Lord John's doctrines in ...
... thought at the time that was a strong step to take , and then insinuated that Lord John had forgotten to act upon his own counsel to Lord Lord Palmerston , and obtain the Queen's sanction . Having argued that Lord John's doctrines in ...
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... thought it would be wiser for the House , before it proceeded to consider the causes of the outbreak , to await the quelling of the rebel- lion . Lord Granville then alluded in very complimentary terms to the reception of the Prince of ...
... thought it would be wiser for the House , before it proceeded to consider the causes of the outbreak , to await the quelling of the rebel- lion . Lord Granville then alluded in very complimentary terms to the reception of the Prince of ...
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... thought that im- patience for a reduction of our expenditure should not prevent us from maintaining an attitude of watchfulness . After a few remarks upon domestic topics , he concluded by moving the Ad- dress . The motion was seconded ...
... thought that im- patience for a reduction of our expenditure should not prevent us from maintaining an attitude of watchfulness . After a few remarks upon domestic topics , he concluded by moving the Ad- dress . The motion was seconded ...
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... thought they could not be censured for omitting the topic in the Royal Speech , and he was not displeased at the omission . Subjects had occurred since the House had met , how ever , which he thought justified inquiry of the Government ...
... thought they could not be censured for omitting the topic in the Royal Speech , and he was not displeased at the omission . Subjects had occurred since the House had met , how ever , which he thought justified inquiry of the Government ...
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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...