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
... operations are always occupied by the strongest ; and such en road from thence to New Orleans . a work might prove a curse , instead of a blessing , ( as was I invite gentlemen who think despatch and saving of proven , said a gentleman ...
... operations are always occupied by the strongest ; and such en road from thence to New Orleans . a work might prove a curse , instead of a blessing , ( as was I invite gentlemen who think despatch and saving of proven , said a gentleman ...
Page 675
... operations , is bound , in good faith , if it shall find it expedient to abandon the policy , to recede from it ... operation of a tariff of duties intended to raise a revenue for the purposes specified in the constitution . But I ...
... operations , is bound , in good faith , if it shall find it expedient to abandon the policy , to recede from it ... operation of a tariff of duties intended to raise a revenue for the purposes specified in the constitution . But I ...
Page 676
... operation , as to make it productive of the greatest public language of the constitution any satisfactory authority for good ? I do not , myself , hesitate about the answer which , the exercise of this power , yet I am unable to ...
... operation , as to make it productive of the greatest public language of the constitution any satisfactory authority for good ? I do not , myself , hesitate about the answer which , the exercise of this power , yet I am unable to ...
Page 680
... operation , which might by Congress during forty years . be necessary if the treasury was full . It is well known The gentleman from Tennessee [ Mr. ISACKS ] contends to my colleague , the late chairman of the Committee that Congress ...
... operation , which might by Congress during forty years . be necessary if the treasury was full . It is well known The gentleman from Tennessee [ Mr. ISACKS ] contends to my colleague , the late chairman of the Committee that Congress ...
Page 685
... operation required from Virginia has touched . They are like those of the more than ordinary time ; but in the years '93 and '94 , when people from whom I am sent , decided and emphatic . The the whole machinery of Government was in ...
... operation required from Virginia has touched . They are like those of the more than ordinary time ; but in the years '93 and '94 , when people from whom I am sent , decided and emphatic . The the whole machinery of Government was in ...
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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.