Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volume 2, Part 2; Volume 45Gales & Seaton, 1825 - Law |
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Page 1633
... called to preside over the destinies of this Nation may be the choice of a majority of its citizens . But here , Sir , I am met at the threshold , by the argument of the gentleman from New York , ( Mr. SToRRS ) and told , that it never ...
... called to preside over the destinies of this Nation may be the choice of a majority of its citizens . But here , Sir , I am met at the threshold , by the argument of the gentleman from New York , ( Mr. SToRRS ) and told , that it never ...
Page 1689
... called upon to make that exami- nation . tion , some forty or fifty men , made up of Indians , aliens , non - residents , and soldiers , turned out , and worked , of their own voluntary accord , upon what they are pleased By the act of ...
... called upon to make that exami- nation . tion , some forty or fifty men , made up of Indians , aliens , non - residents , and soldiers , turned out , and worked , of their own voluntary accord , upon what they are pleased By the act of ...
Page 1713
... called up , had been indefinitely postponed . This was the more remarkable , as the result of the last Presidential election had operated with unexpected se- verity on the feelings of the People . Mr. M. said , he submitted these facts ...
... called up , had been indefinitely postponed . This was the more remarkable , as the result of the last Presidential election had operated with unexpected se- verity on the feelings of the People . Mr. M. said , he submitted these facts ...
Page 1725
... called upon to make one of the most radical changes in the whole structure of this Government , to which task he felt himself entirely in- competent . It would seem , at the first blush , a little strange , that the gentleman should ...
... called upon to make one of the most radical changes in the whole structure of this Government , to which task he felt himself entirely in- competent . It would seem , at the first blush , a little strange , that the gentleman should ...
Page 1737
... called upon to vote for electors of whom they have no knowledge for persons selected by this central caucus and imposed upon the People as candidates , for whom they must vote or not vote at all . But the gentleman says , if you will do ...
... called upon to vote for electors of whom they have no knowledge for persons selected by this central caucus and imposed upon the People as candidates , for whom they must vote or not vote at all . But the gentleman says , if you will do ...
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Page 1725 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 1669 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Page 2157 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 1737 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Page 2159 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected...
Page 2159 - ... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 2157 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 2237 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Page 2037 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 2083 - ... latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld...