Speeches in the Senate of the United States. Miscellaneous speeches. AppendixLittle, Brown, 1862 |
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... vast advance on the ferocious systems of what we call natural society . It was a grand triumph of reason as well as of humanity . Policy and wisdom carried the world up to it , as well as right feeling . It was resorted to to re- lieve ...
... vast advance on the ferocious systems of what we call natural society . It was a grand triumph of reason as well as of humanity . Policy and wisdom carried the world up to it , as well as right feeling . It was resorted to to re- lieve ...
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... vast work , was such , and some of the acknowledged powers of the national judiciary are such , as to afford a moral certainty , a priori , that this particular and limited jurisdiction over prosecutions begun in the State courts ...
... vast work , was such , and some of the acknowledged powers of the national judiciary are such , as to afford a moral certainty , a priori , that this particular and limited jurisdiction over prosecutions begun in the State courts ...
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... vast family of nations , and to the people and the States of this nation ? In subjecting you to the re- sponsibilities and burdens of war ; in submitting to your con- trol all the modes and forms in which this nation can possibly have ...
... vast family of nations , and to the people and the States of this nation ? In subjecting you to the re- sponsibilities and burdens of war ; in submitting to your con- trol all the modes and forms in which this nation can possibly have ...
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... vast , but restrained and parental , central power holds at rest a thousand spirits , a thousand elements of strife ! There is Maine . How long would it be , if she were independent , before her hardy and gal- lant children would pour ...
... vast , but restrained and parental , central power holds at rest a thousand spirits , a thousand elements of strife ! There is Maine . How long would it be , if she were independent , before her hardy and gal- lant children would pour ...
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... vast means of prosperity , or of decay , to a na- tion by whom or with whom it is carried on ; and therefore that the Constitution , when it clothed you with the general power of regulating it , intended that you should do so with a ...
... vast means of prosperity , or of decay , to a na- tion by whom or with whom it is carried on ; and therefore that the Constitution , when it clothed you with the general power of regulating it , intended that you should do so with a ...
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Seite 182 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Seite 390 - If discord and disunion shall wound it — if party strife and blind ambition shall hawk at and tear it — if folly and madness — if uneasiness, under salutary and necessary restraint shall succeed to separate it from that union, by which alone its existence is made sure, it will stand, in the end, by the side of that cradle in which its infancy was rocked; it will stretch forth its arm with whatever of vigor it may still retain, over the friends who gather round it; and it will fall at last,...
Seite 81 - Considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes in the British colonies, for the purpose of raising a revenue, by act of Parliament...
Seite 125 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbours, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open, for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Seite 436 - What nothing earthly gives, or can destroy, The soul's calm sunshine, and the heart-felt joy, Is virtue's prize: A better would you fix?
Seite 32 - ... all cases in which foreigners may be interested; in the construction of any treaty or treaties, or which may arise on any of the acts for the regulation of trade, or the collection of the Federal revenue...
Seite 56 - And shall also have cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, or the Circuit Courts, as the case may be, of all causes where an alien sues for a tort only in violation of the law of nations, or a treaty of the United States.
Seite 22 - It will be for that government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation.
Seite 46 - ... The people have declared that, in the exercise of all powers given for these objects, it is supreme. It can, then, in effecting these objects, legitimately control all individuals or governments within the American territory. The constitution and laws of a state, so far as they are repugnant to the constitution and laws of the United States, are absolutely void. These states are constituent parts of the United States. They are members of one great empire. — for some purposes sovereign, for...
Seite 369 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.