Speeches in Congress ; Legal arguments and speeches to the juryLittle, Brown and Company, 1853 |
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... vote shall be given this day , and if that vote shall leave thousands of our fellow - citizens and their families , in hopeless and helpless distress , to everlasting subjection to irredeemable debt , can we go to our beds with ...
... vote shall be given this day , and if that vote shall leave thousands of our fellow - citizens and their families , in hopeless and helpless distress , to everlasting subjection to irredeemable debt , can we go to our beds with ...
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... vote will be governed by a desire to make the bill acceptable to others . Now , Sir , the argument for the compulsory clause is , that , without this power , the creditors have no security ; that the bill * A Speech delivered in the ...
... vote will be governed by a desire to make the bill acceptable to others . Now , Sir , the argument for the compulsory clause is , that , without this power , the creditors have no security ; that the bill * A Speech delivered in the ...
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... vote for it . Even as these clauses now stand , I should prefer to have them in the bill ; my original proposition having been , as is well known , that there should be both compulsory and voluntary bankruptcy ; and I vote now to strike ...
... vote for it . Even as these clauses now stand , I should prefer to have them in the bill ; my original proposition having been , as is well known , that there should be both compulsory and voluntary bankruptcy ; and I vote now to strike ...
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... vote for her admission into the Union . I do not in- tend , Mr. President , to argue either of the questions which were discussed in Congress at that time , and which have been so much discussed throughout the country within the last ...
... vote for her admission into the Union . I do not in- tend , Mr. President , to argue either of the questions which were discussed in Congress at that time , and which have been so much discussed throughout the country within the last ...
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... vote . I agree with the unanimous opinion of the legislature of Massachusetts ; I agree with the great mass of her people ; I re- affirm what I have said and written during the last eight years , at various times , against this ...
... vote . I agree with the unanimous opinion of the legislature of Massachusetts ; I agree with the great mass of her people ; I re- affirm what I have said and written during the last eight years , at various times , against this ...
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Seite 487 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Seite 81 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Seite 484 - Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, must be deemed retrospective.
Seite 341 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provision of the Federal Constitution.
Seite 373 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Seite 361 - ... without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe. There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession.
Seite 121 - was a public act of persons in her Majesty's service, obeying the order of their superior authorities.
Seite 419 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Seite 81 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Seite 493 - A contract is a compact between two or more parties, and is either executory or executed. An executory contract is one in which a party binds himself to do, or not to do, a particular thing ; such was the law under which the conveyance was made by the governor.