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... and intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that charac ter to the end of my career . Daniel Webster WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BOSTON : ESTES & LAURIAT , 301 WASHINGTON STREET . COPYRIGHT , 1883 . D. LOTHROP & COMPANY . PRESS.
... and intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that charac ter to the end of my career . Daniel Webster WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BOSTON : ESTES & LAURIAT , 301 WASHINGTON STREET . COPYRIGHT , 1883 . D. LOTHROP & COMPANY . PRESS.
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... duties . The other Southern colonies were in general framed on the Virginia model . South Carolina was even more aristocratic , there being but two classes , the planters and the slaves . The highest civilization in the South , take ...
... duties . The other Southern colonies were in general framed on the Virginia model . South Carolina was even more aristocratic , there being but two classes , the planters and the slaves . The highest civilization in the South , take ...
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... duties invaluable to his countrymen . The next step towards the present union was taken in 1751 , and by an officer of the Crown , Archibald Kennedy , Receiver - General of New York , who sug- gested through the press , an annual ...
... duties invaluable to his countrymen . The next step towards the present union was taken in 1751 , and by an officer of the Crown , Archibald Kennedy , Receiver - General of New York , who sug- gested through the press , an annual ...
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... duties had ( under the so - called " Sugar Law " ) been laid on molasses , sugar and rum * England was ever jealous of American manufactures and inven tions , and after the War of 1812 , her merchants were encouraged to send goods to ...
... duties had ( under the so - called " Sugar Law " ) been laid on molasses , sugar and rum * England was ever jealous of American manufactures and inven tions , and after the War of 1812 , her merchants were encouraged to send goods to ...
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... duties were felt by the colonists to be onerous , and they became difficult to collect . This led , in 1761 , to the " Writs of Assistance , " under which search could be made for contraband goods in warehouse or dwelling , by the ...
... duties were felt by the colonists to be onerous , and they became difficult to collect . This led , in 1761 , to the " Writs of Assistance , " under which search could be made for contraband goods in warehouse or dwelling , by the ...
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Page 175 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN King of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative...
Page 584 - Congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article: of sending and receiving ambassadors: entering into treaties and alliances: provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any...
Page 591 - Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years and excluding Indians not taxed...
Page 601 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 581 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 593 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 587 - Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall, from time to time, think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of nine States, in the Congress of the United States assembled, is requisite. ART. XI. Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union, but no other...
Page 266 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 610 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 600 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.