History of the Federal Government, for Fifty Years: From March, 1789 to March, 1839S.G. Simpkins, 1840 - 480 páginas |
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... land office was ordered to be estab- lished in the territory , for the survey and sale of the public lands . The territory , though then under one government , included Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Michigan , Wisconsin , and Iowa . A ...
... land office was ordered to be estab- lished in the territory , for the survey and sale of the public lands . The territory , though then under one government , included Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Michigan , Wisconsin , and Iowa . A ...
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... public service , and to direct and command them , has proved a subject of much difference of opinion , and of ... lands in the west and northwest parts of the coun- try , before the war of the Revolution , on the supposition that ...
... public service , and to direct and command them , has proved a subject of much difference of opinion , and of ... lands in the west and northwest parts of the coun- try , before the war of the Revolution , on the supposition that ...
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... public lands within their respective territories ; and would exclude the original States , who struggled and sacrificed so much for national freedom and independence , from all right or benefit in them . This great question is still ...
... public lands within their respective territories ; and would exclude the original States , who struggled and sacrificed so much for national freedom and independence , from all right or benefit in them . This great question is still ...
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... public character , he strongly resembled the illustrious patriot , then at the head of the nation . A strong ... lands or houses , would probably have been reprobated , except in some extraordi- nary exigency . In the present case ...
... public character , he strongly resembled the illustrious patriot , then at the head of the nation . A strong ... lands or houses , would probably have been reprobated , except in some extraordi- nary exigency . In the present case ...
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... public monies should account therefor at short and stated periods . The subject of " internal improvements , " so ... lands in that part of the country . An act was passed for the protection and relief of American seamen . The ...
... public monies should account therefor at short and stated periods . The subject of " internal improvements , " so ... lands in that part of the country . An act was passed for the protection and relief of American seamen . The ...
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Página 459 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Página 87 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 400 - Scott case, plant themselves upon the fifth amendment, which provides that no person shall be deprived of " life, liberty, or property without due process of law;" while Senator Douglas and his peculiar adherents plant themselves upon the tenth amendment, providing that " the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution" " are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Página 462 - The first section of the third article of the constitution declares that "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and such inferior courts as congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Página 87 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 92 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to...
Página 17 - He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness...
Página 15 - On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Página 75 - And when in the calm moments of reflection, they shall have retraced the origin and progress of the insurrection, let them determine, whether it has not been fomented by combinations of men, who careless...
Página 466 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.