The Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, Inaugural, Annual, and Special, from 1789 to 1846: With a Memoir of Each of the Presidents and a History of Their Administrations; Also the Constitution of the United States, and a Selection of Important Documents and Statistical Information, Volume 2E. Walker, 1846 - Presidents |
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Page 753
... currency through their own banks ; while the bank of the United States , though issuing no paper , would check the issues of the state banks , by taking their notes in deposite , and for exchange only , so long as they continue to be re ...
... currency through their own banks ; while the bank of the United States , though issuing no paper , would check the issues of the state banks , by taking their notes in deposite , and for exchange only , so long as they continue to be re ...
Page 770
... currency , which no country can bear without inconvenience and occasional distress . To meet this burden , and equalize the exchange operations of the bank , the amount of specie drawn from those states , through its branches , within ...
... currency , which no country can bear without inconvenience and occasional distress . To meet this burden , and equalize the exchange operations of the bank , the amount of specie drawn from those states , through its branches , within ...
Page 771
... would run in the same direction , there can be no doubt . All its operations within , would be in aid of the hostile fleets and armies without . Control- ling our currency , receiving our public moneys , and JACKSON'S BANK VETO . 771.
... would run in the same direction , there can be no doubt . All its operations within , would be in aid of the hostile fleets and armies without . Control- ling our currency , receiving our public moneys , and JACKSON'S BANK VETO . 771.
Page 772
... currency , receiving our public moneys , and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence , it would be more formidable and dangerous than the naval and military power of the enemy . If we must have a bank with private stockholders ...
... currency , receiving our public moneys , and holding thousands of our citizens in dependence , it would be more formidable and dangerous than the naval and military power of the enemy . If we must have a bank with private stockholders ...
Page 776
... currency known to the constitution . But if they have other power to regulate the currency , it was conferred to be exercised by themselves , and not to be transferred to a corporation . If the bank be established for that purpose ...
... currency known to the constitution . But if they have other power to regulate the currency , it was conferred to be exercised by themselves , and not to be transferred to a corporation . If the bank be established for that purpose ...
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Page 827 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned...
Page 1477 - As a very important source of strength and security cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it...
Page 794 - Congress, imposing duties, shall any appeal be taken or allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose; and...
Page 794 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Page 843 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 1097 - It is, nevertheless, understood that during a term of ten years. counting from the signature of the present convention, the ships of both Powers, or which belong to their citizens or subjects respectively, may reciprocally frequent, without any hindrance whatever. the interior seas, gulfs, harbors, and creeks, upon the coast mentioned in the preceding article, for the purpose of fishing and trading with the natives of the country.
Page 779 - Union preserved by invasions of the rights and powers of the several States. In thus attempting to make our General Government strong we make it weak. Its true strength consists in leaving individuals and States as much as possible to themselves — in making itself felt, not in its power, but in its beneficence; not in its control, but in its protection; not in binding the States more closely to the center, but leaving each to move unobstructed in its proper orbit.
Page 797 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects — that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest — is "to form a more perfect union.
Page 807 - ... if it be the will of Heaven, that the recurrence of its primeval curse on man for the shedding of a brother's blood should fall upon our land, that it be not called down by any offensive act on the part of the United States.
Page 914 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...