Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 78-79William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... never were seen , except at London it- taxes on the river ; it has the fingering self ; and , really , these places seem to of public property of various descrip surpass even London in this respect . tions ; and I am well assured , that ...
... never were seen , except at London it- taxes on the river ; it has the fingering self ; and , really , these places seem to of public property of various descrip surpass even London in this respect . tions ; and I am well assured , that ...
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... never would have The bridge crosses this river from rock been if they had remained here : and so to rock , and is so far above the water conscious do they appear to have been that ships of considerable size go under of this , that they ...
... never would have The bridge crosses this river from rock been if they had remained here : and so to rock , and is so far above the water conscious do they appear to have been that ships of considerable size go under of this , that they ...
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... never surpassed would blow up , and that WELLINGTON'S " in point of ability . You have studied name would be rubbed ... never seen before , " commentators on the wisdom of your and the greater part of whom will , in " writings on this ...
... never surpassed would blow up , and that WELLINGTON'S " in point of ability . You have studied name would be rubbed ... never seen before , " commentators on the wisdom of your and the greater part of whom will , in " writings on this ...
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... never deceive them again . LETTER I. see in the newspapers , where he is stated to give grand dinners to princes and other money - dealers and merchants , and great men . The evidence of these , the bullion committee have had printed ...
... never deceive them again . LETTER I. see in the newspapers , where he is stated to give grand dinners to princes and other money - dealers and merchants , and great men . The evidence of these , the bullion committee have had printed ...
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... never to do the like again . This evening , after my lecture was over , some gentlemen presented an address to me upon the stage , before the audience , accompa- nied with the valuable and honourable present of the late Mr. EnEAS MACKEN ...
... never to do the like again . This evening , after my lecture was over , some gentlemen presented an address to me upon the stage , before the audience , accompa- nied with the valuable and honourable present of the late Mr. EnEAS MACKEN ...
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Page 231 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.
Page 311 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 565 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
Page 303 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 243 - I adjure you, as you honor their memory, as you love the cause of freedom, to which they dedicated their lives, as you prize the peace of your country, the lives of its best citizens, and your own fair fame, to retrace your steps. Snatch from the archives of your State the disorganizing edict...
Page 235 - On such expositions and reasonings the ordinance grounds not only an assertion of the right to annul the laws of which it complains, but to enforce it by a threat of seceding from the Union if any attempt is made to execute them. This right to secede is deduced from the nature of the Constitution, which...
Page 241 - The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject — my duty is emphatically pronounced in the constitution. Those who told you that you might peaceably prevent their execution, deceived you — they could not have been deceived themselves. They know that a forcible opposition could alone prevent the execution of the laws, and they know that such opposition must be repelled. Their object is disunion; but be not deceived by names; disunion, by armed force,...
Page 239 - State might have proposed the call for a general convention to the other States; and Congress, if a sufficient number of them concurred, must have called it. But the first magistrate of South Carolina, when he expressed a hope that, " on a review by Congress and the functionaries of the general government of the merits of the controversy...
Page 137 - Queen there inhabiting and being, and to the evil example of all others in like case offending, and against the form of the statutes in such case made and provided, and against the peace of our Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 243 - On your undivided support of your Government depends the decision of the great question it involves — whether your sacred Union will be preserved and the blessing it secures to us as one people shall be perpetuated. No one can doubt that the unanimity with which that decision will be expressed will be such as to inspire new confidence in republican institutions...