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... Leave us to tread where Washington points the way . " And yet , with these convictions , Mr. President , which I now most sincerely express , I trust the Sena- tor from Georgia [ Mr. Berrien ] will pardon me when I say I cannot join in ...
... Leave us to tread where Washington points the way . " And yet , with these convictions , Mr. President , which I now most sincerely express , I trust the Sena- tor from Georgia [ Mr. Berrien ] will pardon me when I say I cannot join in ...
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... leave a very large balance to the credit of the Land States . Estimating the land at $ 1.25 an acre , all the ... leaves the nation so largely in debt to the Land States , that it becomes of small importance to scan closely the character ...
... leave a very large balance to the credit of the Land States . Estimating the land at $ 1.25 an acre , all the ... leaves the nation so largely in debt to the Land States , that it becomes of small importance to scan closely the character ...
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... leaving upwards of two millions - nearly three millions of dollars yielded by this State to the nation . - Take another State- Missouri . It appears that , down to January , 1849 , 39,685,609 acres had been proclaimed for sale in this ...
... leaving upwards of two millions - nearly three millions of dollars yielded by this State to the nation . - Take another State- Missouri . It appears that , down to January , 1849 , 39,685,609 acres had been proclaimed for sale in this ...
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... leaves the power of the President applicable to all other cases . Expressio unius exclusio est alterius . Mr. Berrien , in one of his opinions as Attorney - General , recognizes " the pardoning power as co - extensive with the power to ...
... leaves the power of the President applicable to all other cases . Expressio unius exclusio est alterius . Mr. Berrien , in one of his opinions as Attorney - General , recognizes " the pardoning power as co - extensive with the power to ...
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... leaving them still exposed to proceedings for all fines and costs , to be satisfied out of any prop- erty they may hereafter acquire . - If the imprisonment had been a specific part of the sentence , as if they had been sentenced to one ...
... leaving them still exposed to proceedings for all fines and costs , to be satisfied out of any prop- erty they may hereafter acquire . - If the imprisonment had been a specific part of the sentence , as if they had been sentenced to one ...
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Page 153 - 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 514 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 609 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 344 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 28 - January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under any authority of the State, whether for State, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale...
Page 344 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Page 296 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 251 - Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees, and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Page 130 - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page 266 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the...