The Life and Speeches of the Hon. Henry Clay ...R.P. Bixby & Company, 1843 |
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... increased and increasing ; our tonnage , foreign and coastwise , swelling and fully occupied ; the rivers 6 SPEECHES OF HENRY CLAY .
... increased and increasing ; our tonnage , foreign and coastwise , swelling and fully occupied ; the rivers 6 SPEECHES OF HENRY CLAY .
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... increased . As to the desola- tion of our cities , let us take , as an example , the condition of the largest and most commercial of all of them , the great northern capital . I have , in my hands , the assessed value of real estate in ...
... increased . As to the desola- tion of our cities , let us take , as an example , the condition of the largest and most commercial of all of them , the great northern capital . I have , in my hands , the assessed value of real estate in ...
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... increased difficulty of reinstating , upon any emergency , the manufactures which shall be allowed to perish and pass away , ' and so forth . The measure of protection which he proposed was not adopted , in regard to some leading ...
... increased difficulty of reinstating , upon any emergency , the manufactures which shall be allowed to perish and pass away , ' and so forth . The measure of protection which he proposed was not adopted , in regard to some leading ...
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... increased production ; but I believe it to be still the most profitable investment of capital of any branch of business in the United States . And if a committee were raised , with power to send for persons and papers , I take it upon ...
... increased production ; but I believe it to be still the most profitable investment of capital of any branch of business in the United States . And if a committee were raised , with power to send for persons and papers , I take it upon ...
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... increasing . As to the foreign tonnage , about one half of that which is engaged in the direct trade between Charleston and Great Britain , is English ; proving that the tonnage of South Carolina cannot maintain itself in a competition ...
... increasing . As to the foreign tonnage , about one half of that which is engaged in the direct trade between Charleston and Great Britain , is English ; proving that the tonnage of South Carolina cannot maintain itself in a competition ...
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Seite 160 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute ; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States...
Seite 155 - By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Seite 155 - The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that...
Seite 269 - 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.
Seite 104 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Seite 526 - ... in accordance with regulations to be adopted by the secretary of the treasury, and the treasurer of the United States is hereby authorized to receive the same. All sums of money paid into the treasury under this section shall be set apart and credited to a fund to be known as the "Debris Fund...
Seite 529 - A majority of the whole number of members elected to each House...
Seite 160 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either House of the Congress of the United States...
Seite 236 - States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 155 - They respect the nation, not individual rights, and being intrusted to the executive, the decision of the executive is conclusive. The application of this remark will be perceived by adverting to the act of Congress for establishing the department of foreign affairs. This officer, as his duties were prescribed by that act, is to conform precisely to the will of the President. He is the mere organ by whom that will is communicated. The acts of such an officer, as an officer, can never be examinable...