The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts, and speeches in CongressC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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Daniel Webster. unprecedented amount of capital , and with no obligation to ful- fil its contracts . The State banks have not forced themselves in the way of government . They were established , many of them at least , when government ...
Daniel Webster. unprecedented amount of capital , and with no obligation to ful- fil its contracts . The State banks have not forced themselves in the way of government . They were established , many of them at least , when government ...
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... amount to the government . These loans were made by an issue of their own bills . This proceeding threw into circulation an immense quantity of bank paper , in no degree corresponding with the mercantile business of the country , and ...
... amount to the government . These loans were made by an issue of their own bills . This proceeding threw into circulation an immense quantity of bank paper , in no degree corresponding with the mercantile business of the country , and ...
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... amount , nor hazarded altogether , by the receipt of varying and uncertain paper ; and that the present state of things , in which all these unconstitutional , ille- gal , and dangerous ingredients are mixed , ought not to exist . It ...
... amount , nor hazarded altogether , by the receipt of varying and uncertain paper ; and that the present state of things , in which all these unconstitutional , ille- gal , and dangerous ingredients are mixed , ought not to exist . It ...
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... amount of the Greek population . The Turkish government does not trouble itself with any of the calculations of political economy , and there has never been such a thing as an accurate census , probably , in any part of the Turkish ...
... amount of the Greek population . The Turkish government does not trouble itself with any of the calculations of political economy , and there has never been such a thing as an accurate census , probably , in any part of the Turkish ...
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... amount , as I am inclined to think , somewhat overrated . There are , probably , in the whole of European Turkey , 5,000,000 Greeks , and 2,000,000 more in the Asiatic dominions of that power . The moral and intellectual progress of ...
... amount , as I am inclined to think , somewhat overrated . There are , probably , in the whole of European Turkey , 5,000,000 Greeks , and 2,000,000 more in the Asiatic dominions of that power . The moral and intellectual progress of ...
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Seite 310 - I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for whatever of distinguished talent, or distinguished character, South Carolina has produced. I claim part of the honor, I partake in the pride, of her great names. I claim them for countrymen, one...
Seite 495 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Seite 449 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Seite 264 - ... many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course. Let us imitate this prudence, and, before we float farther on the waves of this debate, refer to the point from which we departed, that we may at least be able to conjecture where we now are. I ask for the reading of the resolution before the Senate.
Seite 194 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America...
Seite 312 - I understand him to insist, that if the exigency of the case, in the opinion of any State government, require it, such State government may, by its own sovereign authority, annul an act of the general government, which it deems plainly and palpably unconstitutional.
Seite 311 - And sir, where American Liberty raised its first voice; and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit. If discord and disunion shall wound...
Seite 249 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
Seite 334 - Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do any thing for themselves ; they imagine there is no safety for them any longer than they are under the close guardianship of the state legislatures. Sir, the people have not trusted their safety, in regard to the general constitution, to these hands. They have required other security, and taken other bonds. They have chosen to trust themselves, first, to the plain words of the instrument, and to such construction as the government...
Seite 492 - To grant patents for useful inventions. "To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time. "To establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.