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... Citizens of the United States , London , 1806 , pp . 37-43 51. The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions , 1798-1799 The Writings of James Madison , ed . G. HUNT , Vol . IX , pp . 326-331 ELLIOT , Debates ( see No. 42 ) , Vol . IV , p . 545 ...
... Citizens of the United States , London , 1806 , pp . 37-43 51. The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions , 1798-1799 The Writings of James Madison , ed . G. HUNT , Vol . IX , pp . 326-331 ELLIOT , Debates ( see No. 42 ) , Vol . IV , p . 545 ...
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... citizens of Boston to Governor Andros , who had taken refuge in the Fort : SIR , At the Town - House , Boston , April 18 , 1689 Ourselves and many others the Inhabitants of this Town , and the Places adjacent , being surprized with the ...
... citizens of Boston to Governor Andros , who had taken refuge in the Fort : SIR , At the Town - House , Boston , April 18 , 1689 Ourselves and many others the Inhabitants of this Town , and the Places adjacent , being surprized with the ...
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... citizens of Boston ) ९९ Andros , after an attempt to escape to the frigate Rose , which was lying at anchor in Boston Harbor , surrendered and was brought to the Council House in the town , where he was confined for that night to Mr ...
... citizens of Boston ) ९९ Andros , after an attempt to escape to the frigate Rose , which was lying at anchor in Boston Harbor , surrendered and was brought to the Council House in the town , where he was confined for that night to Mr ...
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... citizen , till his death in 1719 or 1720. In his " Circumstantial Geographical Description of Pennsylvania , " published at Frankfort and Leipzig in 1700 , after describing the discovery of the province and the grant of the charter to ...
... citizen , till his death in 1719 or 1720. In his " Circumstantial Geographical Description of Pennsylvania , " published at Frankfort and Leipzig in 1700 , after describing the discovery of the province and the grant of the charter to ...
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... citizens of America , in particular , can never forget his beneficent attention to their violated rights , nor cease to acknowledge the hand of a gracious Providence in raising them up so powerful and illustrious a friend . It is The ...
... citizens of America , in particular , can never forget his beneficent attention to their violated rights , nor cease to acknowledge the hand of a gracious Providence in raising them up so powerful and illustrious a friend . It is The ...
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Page 408 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 276 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 384 - We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 177 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 253 - We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety.
Page 236 - In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book ? or goes to an American play ? or looks at an American picture or statue...
Page 253 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments...
Page 384 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time ; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page 244 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.