The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 and 1787, Volume 2C. Chauncey Burr & Company, 1864 - United States |
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... hold $ 27,396 of his notes , which are re- deemable only in greenbacks at the banker's counter . But the bank may be located in some inaccessible spot , and the notes can then be redeemed only at a broker's at a discount . This " broker ...
... hold $ 27,396 of his notes , which are re- deemable only in greenbacks at the banker's counter . But the bank may be located in some inaccessible spot , and the notes can then be redeemed only at a broker's at a discount . This " broker ...
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... hold three men , two to row and one to steer , each man to be armed with a pot of Greek fire . Whilst these boats would not be invulnerable to the rebel batte- ries , they would be so to musketry , Mr. and they will be so small and ...
... hold three men , two to row and one to steer , each man to be armed with a pot of Greek fire . Whilst these boats would not be invulnerable to the rebel batte- ries , they would be so to musketry , Mr. and they will be so small and ...
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... hold on to it , from motives of mo- mentary self - defense , as well as of ava- rice and revenge . The day of peace ends the theatre of their malice and plunder . Peace is to them what war is to their country - ruin ; what the day of ...
... hold on to it , from motives of mo- mentary self - defense , as well as of ava- rice and revenge . The day of peace ends the theatre of their malice and plunder . Peace is to them what war is to their country - ruin ; what the day of ...
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... hold on to it , from motives of mo- mentary self - defense , as well as of ava- rice and revenge . The day of peace ends the theatre of their malice and plunder . Peace is to them what war is to their country - ruin ; what the day of ...
... hold on to it , from motives of mo- mentary self - defense , as well as of ava- rice and revenge . The day of peace ends the theatre of their malice and plunder . Peace is to them what war is to their country - ruin ; what the day of ...
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... hold- er of Government money paid $ 20,000 for a ham , and $ 10,000 for half a pound of tea . Nobody could complain that the debt was not fairly contracted . But failure and repudiation were none the less in- evitable . But who , let us ...
... hold- er of Government money paid $ 20,000 for a ham , and $ 10,000 for half a pound of tea . Nobody could complain that the debt was not fairly contracted . But failure and repudiation were none the less in- evitable . But who , let us ...
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Page 86 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 224 - That if any person shall write, print, utter or publish, or shall cause or procure to be written, printed, uttered or published, or shall knowingly and willingly assist or aid in writing, printing, uttering or publishing any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States...
Page 240 - ... Potomac ; and it was thought that by giving it to Philadelphia for ten years, and to Georgetown permanently afterwards, this might, as an anodyne, calm in some degree the ferment which might be excited by the other measure ] alone. So two of the Potomac members (White and Lee, but White with a revulsion of stomach almost convulsive,) agreed to change their votes, and Hamilton undertook to carry the other point. In doing this, the influence he had established over the eastern members, with the...
Page 224 - President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 149 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 194 - The Constitution of the United States was formed by the sanction of the States, given by each in its sovereign capacity.
Page 250 - ... all men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience, and that no particular religious sect or society ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others.
Page 253 - Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury- or oppression, and that every power not granted thereby, remains with them and at their will...
Page 55 - The States, then, being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them, be violated ; and, consequently, that, as the parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.
Page 251 - Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation...