The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Band 3Gales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... persons who were citizens of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts ? To establish the negative of this proposition , Mr. B. adduced va- rious other arguments in addition to the preceding , and endeavored to show that even many laws of But ...
... persons who were citizens of the Com- monwealth of Massachusetts ? To establish the negative of this proposition , Mr. B. adduced va- rious other arguments in addition to the preceding , and endeavored to show that even many laws of But ...
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... person ble a privilege men who , perhaps , had all the re- other than a negro , of whose grandfathers or grand ... persons , shall be deemed a mulatto , and so every person who shall have one - fourth part or more of negro blood ...
... person ble a privilege men who , perhaps , had all the re- other than a negro , of whose grandfathers or grand ... persons , shall be deemed a mulatto , and so every person who shall have one - fourth part or more of negro blood ...
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... persons who come there to reside . And any person removed , and returning without permission of the selectmen , shall be whipped not exceeding ten stripes . " He could not conceive how Vermont could pos- sibly say , that the ...
... persons who come there to reside . And any person removed , and returning without permission of the selectmen , shall be whipped not exceeding ten stripes . " He could not conceive how Vermont could pos- sibly say , that the ...
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... person or persons at unseasonable hours , break up his ' house and bind him out to service for two years . " If all were citizens , why not bind out a white brother citizen as well as a black or yellow one ? The nature of the offence ...
... person or persons at unseasonable hours , break up his ' house and bind him out to service for two years . " If all were citizens , why not bind out a white brother citizen as well as a black or yellow one ? The nature of the offence ...
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... persons from other States . By a law of the State , published in 1792 , and which was since the adoption of the Constitution of the Uni- ted States , they have carried their powers much further than those assumed by Missouri for exclud ...
... persons from other States . By a law of the State , published in 1792 , and which was since the adoption of the Constitution of the Uni- ted States , they have carried their powers much further than those assumed by Missouri for exclud ...
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Admission of Missouri admitted Alabama amendment amount army authority bank bankrupt BARBOUR Baron de Kalb bill citizens clause Committee of Claims Committee on Public Congress constitution of Missouri court debt DECEMBER declared district dollars duty entitled An act establish expediency favor free negroes gentleman Government granted gress Holmes honorable House of Representatives JANUARY Johnson Judiciary Kentucky last session Legislature liberty Louisiana LOWNDES Massachusetts Matthew Lyon ment military militia Mississippi mittee motion nation negroes and mulattoes object officers opinion passed payment persons petition was read postponed praying presented the petition President principles privileges proceeded to consider proposed provisions Public Lands question read the third referred relief resolution Resolved Rhode Island Secretary Secretary of War Senate proceeded Senate resumed SMITH souri South Carolina stitution submitted Tennessee Territory tion Treasury Treaty of Ghent TRIMBLE Union United Virginia vote whole Williams York
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Seite 539 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress , assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Seite 59 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Seite 667 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Seite 771 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Seite 413 - That the freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Seite 719 - Freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus ; and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Seite 105 - ... the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states ; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of -trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions, as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Seite 483 - French, did then and there feloniously and willfully kill, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of the people of the state of New York and their dignity.
Seite 57 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Seite 771 - The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid...