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... administration — a man who owes his present elevation to the hearty approval with which his party sustained him in the most questionable act of that administration ; a man whose opinions upon the question now under review were then ...
... administration — a man who owes his present elevation to the hearty approval with which his party sustained him in the most questionable act of that administration ; a man whose opinions upon the question now under review were then ...
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... administration make an issue with them . On the contrary , in the messages , and the communica- tions from the Treasury Department , the members of the administration will be found to be as much the friends of economy , of reform , and ...
... administration make an issue with them . On the contrary , in the messages , and the communica- tions from the Treasury Department , the members of the administration will be found to be as much the friends of economy , of reform , and ...
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... administration , drawn from the fact that , in 1836 , the annual expenditures of the Government had risen to thirty millions and upwards , and , in 1837 , to upwards of thirty - nine millions . Before this statement made its appearance ...
... administration , drawn from the fact that , in 1836 , the annual expenditures of the Government had risen to thirty millions and upwards , and , in 1837 , to upwards of thirty - nine millions . Before this statement made its appearance ...
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... administration ; and still less does it excuse the attempt to keep up the same delusive appearances in the estimates for the service of the present year ( 1838 ) submitted on the 6th of December , 1837. In the report then submitted to ...
... administration ; and still less does it excuse the attempt to keep up the same delusive appearances in the estimates for the service of the present year ( 1838 ) submitted on the 6th of December , 1837. In the report then submitted to ...
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... administration seeks to uphold a character for economy and retrenchment , and to throw upon the opposition and Congress the charge of extravagance . I conclude my remarks upon this part of the Message by repeating my opinion , that the ...
... administration seeks to uphold a character for economy and retrenchment , and to throw upon the opposition and Congress the charge of extravagance . I conclude my remarks upon this part of the Message by repeating my opinion , that the ...
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Page 4 - The First Consul of the French republic, desiring to give to the United States a strong proof of his friendship, doth hereby cede to the...
Page 9 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, 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...
Page 8 - But it is too clear for dispute that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration; for if the language, as understood in that day, would embrace them, the conduct of the distinguished men who framed the Declaration of Independence would have been utterly and flagrantly inconsistent with the principles they asserted; and instead of the sympathy of mankind, to which they so confidently appealed, they would have deserved...
Page 8 - The general words above quoted would seem to embrace the whole human family, and if they were used in a similar instrument at this day would be so understood. But it is too clear for dispute, that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included, and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this declaration...
Page 9 - No one, we presume, supposes that any change in public opinion or feeling, 'in relation to this unfortunate race, in the civilized nations of Europe or in this country, should induce the court to give to the words of the Constitution a more liberal construction in their favor than they were intended to bear when the instrument was framed and adopted.
Page 8 - people of the United States" and "citizens" are synonymous terms, and mean the same thing. They both describe the political body who, according to our republican institutions, form the sovereignty, and who hold the power and conduct the Government through their representatives. They are what we familiarly call the "sovereign people," and every citizen is one of this people, and a constituent member of this sovereignty.
Page 16 - You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
Page 14 - Federal Convention, a declaration of rights, asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty, and the inalienable rights of the people, together with amendments to the most exceptionable parts of the said Constitution of Government, ought to be referred by this convention to the other States in the American Confederacy for their consideration.
Page 15 - ... the conflict will be a short one, nor success easy. My humble efforts have not been spared, during my administration of the government, to restore the constitutional currency of gold and silver; and something, I trust, has been done towards the accomplishment of this most desirable object.
Page 8 - I wish POPULARITY, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.