Speeches delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United StatesD. Appleton, 1874 |
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... portion of the supposed deficiency of the next year , whatever it may be , cannot take place before the 4th of March , -and much of it not until nearly this time twelvemonth . Why then provide for it at this extraordinary session , when ...
... portion of the supposed deficiency of the next year , whatever it may be , cannot take place before the 4th of March , -and much of it not until nearly this time twelvemonth . Why then provide for it at this extraordinary session , when ...
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... portion of the State Rights men , who rather voted against Mr. Van Buren , than for Gen. Harrison , -and who were in- duced to hope from declamation from high sources during the canvass , that the pure days of the old State Rights Jef ...
... portion of the State Rights men , who rather voted against Mr. Van Buren , than for Gen. Harrison , -and who were in- duced to hope from declamation from high sources during the canvass , that the pure days of the old State Rights Jef ...
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... portion , com- paratively , lying between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ) out of the common funds of the Union , and with money de- rived , for the most part , from customs . I do not exempt the portion acquired from Georgia , which ...
... portion , com- paratively , lying between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers ) out of the common funds of the Union , and with money de- rived , for the most part , from customs . I do not exempt the portion acquired from Georgia , which ...
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... portion only of that which would go to the legislatures would ever reach the pockets of the people . It would be under the control and manage- ment of the dominant party in the legislature , and they under the control and management of ...
... portion only of that which would go to the legislatures would ever reach the pockets of the people . It would be under the control and manage- ment of the dominant party in the legislature , and they under the control and management of ...
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... portion of the community , who had no agency or responsibility in contracting the debts , or benefit from the objects on which the funds were expended . On what principle of justice , honor , or constitution , can this Government ...
... portion of the community , who had no agency or responsibility in contracting the debts , or benefit from the objects on which the funds were expended . On what principle of justice , honor , or constitution , can this Government ...
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Seite 492 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.
Seite 492 - Of one thing I am certain, that as the passage of slaves from one State to another, would not make a slave of a single human being who would not be so without it, so their diffusion over a greater surface would make them individually happier, and proportionally facilitate the accomplishment of their emancipation, by dividing the burthen on a greater number of coadjutors.
Seite 542 - I have, Senators, believed from the first, that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion.
Seite 552 - But if there was no question of vital importance to the South, in reference to which there was a diversity of views between the two sections, this state of things might be endured without the hazard of destruction to the South. But such is not the fact. There is a question of vital importance to the southern section, in reference to which the views and feelings of the two sections are as opposite and hostile as they can possibly be. I refer to the relation between the two races in the southern section,...
Seite 552 - ... and feel themselves accordingly bound to give. it. no countenance or support. On the contrary, the southern section regards the relation. as one which cannot be destroyed without subjecting the two races to the greatest Calamity, and the section to poverty, de-solation, and wretchedness ; and accordingly they feel bound by every consideration of interest and safety to defend it.
Seite 348 - That Congress, as the joint agent and representative of the States of this Union, has no right to make any law, or do any act whatever, that shall directly, or by its effects, make any discrimination between the States of this Union, by which any of them shall be deprived of its full and equal right in any territory of the United States, acquired or to be acquired.