Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: Dec. 7, 1835-March 3, 1839D. Appleton, 1860 - Law |
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... Congress to the committee . They were then for the first time laid on the table , as was the motion to print one of them . At the preceding session of the last Congress , as at all former times , all such petitions had been referred to ...
... Congress to the committee . They were then for the first time laid on the table , as was the motion to print one of them . At the preceding session of the last Congress , as at all former times , all such petitions had been referred to ...
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... Congress . only about two hundred troops . Unless speedily | And it is further resolved , that in case any petition ... Congress of of Columbia ; and that any attempt by Congress to the United States to abolish slavery in the District ...
... Congress . only about two hundred troops . Unless speedily | And it is further resolved , that in case any petition ... Congress of of Columbia ; and that any attempt by Congress to the United States to abolish slavery in the District ...
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... Congress with the same books furnished to the members of the twenty - third Congress . It being suggested that a similar resolution was on the Speaker's table , Mr. BRIGGS varied his motion so as to take up that resolution ; which ...
... Congress with the same books furnished to the members of the twenty - third Congress . It being suggested that a similar resolution was on the Speaker's table , Mr. BRIGGS varied his motion so as to take up that resolution ; which ...
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... Congress , calling their attention to the importance of a Collection of American State Mr. SMITH , of Maine , said all the gentlemen Papers . On the 20th of the same month , certain opposed to the amendment offered by the hon ...
... Congress , calling their attention to the importance of a Collection of American State Mr. SMITH , of Maine , said all the gentlemen Papers . On the 20th of the same month , certain opposed to the amendment offered by the hon ...
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... Congress of 1778 , nor the Congress of 1833 , for an instant conceived of such a stupendous enterprise as is now set up under the contract of Mr. Livingston , which has been read , nor do I believe that the memorialists themselves ...
... Congress of 1778 , nor the Congress of 1833 , for an instant conceived of such a stupendous enterprise as is now set up under the contract of Mr. Livingston , which has been read , nor do I believe that the memorialists themselves ...
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Page 134 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 238 - 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.
Page 135 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 79 - Pennsylvania and the said territorial line: provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
Page 323 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit...
Page 30 - State, the propositions set forth in "an act supplementary to an act entitled an act for the admission of the State of Arkansas into the Union, and to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the same, and for other purposes...
Page 32 - an act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories...
Page 73 - An act to establish the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio, and to provide for the admission of the State of Michigan into the Union upon the conditions therein expressed...
Page 323 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 236 - Governments, and out of the numerous and constantly occurring struggles for dominion in Spanish America, so wisely consistent with our just principles has been the action of our Government, that we have, under the most critical circumstances, avoided all censure, and encountered no other evil than that produced by a transient estrangement of good will in those against whom we have been by force of evidence compelled to decide.