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... matter was closed . Congress had now been in session nine months and could not adjourn without providing for the Treasury . A third bill was , therefore , prepared raising duties above twenty per centum , thereby suspending the land ...
... matter was closed . Congress had now been in session nine months and could not adjourn without providing for the Treasury . A third bill was , therefore , prepared raising duties above twenty per centum , thereby suspending the land ...
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... matter of popular right and on this view of the subject said : " It is the recognized duty of every government , in con- sideration of the allegiance of the citizen , to afford protec- tion to his person and property . This is a ...
... matter of popular right and on this view of the subject said : " It is the recognized duty of every government , in con- sideration of the allegiance of the citizen , to afford protec- tion to his person and property . This is a ...
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... matter conceded on all hands . The only difficulty arises in regard to its application . The property of the capitalist consists of his lands , houses , chat- tels and choses in action . These are admitted subjects of protection . But ...
... matter conceded on all hands . The only difficulty arises in regard to its application . The property of the capitalist consists of his lands , houses , chat- tels and choses in action . These are admitted subjects of protection . But ...
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... matter to prove , not only that there is no just foundation for such unfriendly sentiments , but that on the contrary the diversities in soil , climate , and pop- ulation and production , which at first view would seem to constitute the ...
... matter to prove , not only that there is no just foundation for such unfriendly sentiments , but that on the contrary the diversities in soil , climate , and pop- ulation and production , which at first view would seem to constitute the ...
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... victory and defeat ; he had learned wisdom at the feet of its great sages , Webster and Clay . Mr. Fillmore's opposition to Democ- racy was a matter of principle , not of expediency . It was not a thing which he could pick up and lay. 56.
... victory and defeat ; he had learned wisdom at the feet of its great sages , Webster and Clay . Mr. Fillmore's opposition to Democ- racy was a matter of principle , not of expediency . It was not a thing which he could pick up and lay. 56.
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Page 464 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 449 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 396 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
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Page 396 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
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Page 82 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.