Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole ..., Volume 2; Volume 6; Volume 51Gales & Seaton, 1830 - Law |
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Page 671
... increased as the means of the depart- None ; yet they got to New Orleans , fought the battles of ment will justify , or the public interest shall require . I their country , and got home again ; and thus will it be ever ; ask the ...
... increased as the means of the depart- None ; yet they got to New Orleans , fought the battles of ment will justify , or the public interest shall require . I their country , and got home again ; and thus will it be ever ; ask the ...
Page 704
... increased in the last ten years , and which were not before jority of such are here , to countervail the sordid selfish- absolutely insufficient . Such a work of reduction must ness of any of our associates . The insinuation includes be ...
... increased in the last ten years , and which were not before jority of such are here , to countervail the sordid selfish- absolutely insufficient . Such a work of reduction must ness of any of our associates . The insinuation includes be ...
Page 705
... increased in- Congress of the United States . dustry in exploring them , the experience of the world In advocating this measure , I wish it distinctly under- VOL . VI . - 89 H. of R. ] Buffalo and New Orleans Road . OF DEBATES IN ...
... increased in- Congress of the United States . dustry in exploring them , the experience of the world In advocating this measure , I wish it distinctly under- VOL . VI . - 89 H. of R. ] Buffalo and New Orleans Road . OF DEBATES IN ...
Page 709
... increased , also , from the unfortunate hundred and sixty - six thousand seven hundred dollars and difference of opinion which prevails in the delegation from fourteen cents draw only four and one - half per cent . In- my own State ...
... increased , also , from the unfortunate hundred and sixty - six thousand seven hundred dollars and difference of opinion which prevails in the delegation from fourteen cents draw only four and one - half per cent . In- my own State ...
Page 712
... increased activity of business and commerce , from the points on the numerous rivers this road will cross , to the great marts of trade and commerce along our whole coast , from North to South . This plan has in it something approaching ...
... increased activity of business and commerce , from the points on the numerous rivers this road will cross , to the great marts of trade and commerce along our whole coast , from North to South . This plan has in it something approaching ...
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Page 952 - Ecstasy! My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time, And makes as healthful music. It is not madness That I have utter'd : bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word, which madness Would gambol from. Mother, for love of grace, Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks; It will but skin and film the ulcerous place, Whiles rank corruption, mining all within, Infects unseen.
Page 752 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Page 984 - States than are or shall be payable on the like articles being the growth, produce, or manufacture of any other foreign country...
Page 839 - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, is vested in congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Page 724 - I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home...
Page 848 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state. The expense of government to the individuals of a great nation is like the expense of management to the joint tenants of a great estate, who are all obliged to contribute in proportion to their respective interests in the estate.
Page 911 - Seeing therefore that an association of men, who will not quarrel with one another, is a thing which never yet existed from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry; seeing that we must have somebody to quarrel with, I had rather keep our New England associates for that purpose than to see our bickerings transferred to others.
Page 889 - The internal competition which takes place soon does away with every thing like monopoly, and by degrees reduces the price of the article to the minimum of a reasonable profit on the capital employed. This accords with the reason of the thing, and with experience.
Page 919 - We have experienced what we did not then believe, that there exists both profligacy and power enough to exclude us from the field of interchange with other nations; that to be independent for the comforts of life we must fabricate them ourselves. We must now place the manufacturer by the side of the agriculturist...
Page 700 - I can not, therefore, too strongly or too earnestly, for my own sense of its importance, warn you against all encroachments upon the legitimate sphere of State sovereignty. Sustained by its healthful and invigorating influence, the federal system can never fall.