Life and Times of Silas Wright, Late Governor of the State of New York |
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... citizens for the office of Governor - On the Executive Veto - On the Legislative Department - Report of the Judiciary Committee - Of the persons who composed that committee - Proceedings on Mr. Chatfield's Report ( No. 6 ) on the State ...
... citizens for the office of Governor - On the Executive Veto - On the Legislative Department - Report of the Judiciary Committee - Of the persons who composed that committee - Proceedings on Mr. Chatfield's Report ( No. 6 ) on the State ...
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... citizens becomes an in- teresting subject of inquiry , not only for the gratification of the curiosity of the student of history , but as furnishing a demonstration of the value of our free institutions in encouraging , fostering , and ...
... citizens becomes an in- teresting subject of inquiry , not only for the gratification of the curiosity of the student of history , but as furnishing a demonstration of the value of our free institutions in encouraging , fostering , and ...
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... citizen of a republic to which Gov. Wright devoted much of his time and attention until the discharge of his official duties called him away from the county of St. Lawrence , which was service in , and the improvement of , the militia ...
... citizen of a republic to which Gov. Wright devoted much of his time and attention until the discharge of his official duties called him away from the county of St. Lawrence , which was service in , and the improvement of , the militia ...
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... citizens of Albany , which appointed a committee to call upon Mr. Clinton to inquire of him whether he would consent to be a candidate for re - elec- tion . As was anticipated , he declined . * In 1823 , the candidates for the senate ...
... citizens of Albany , which appointed a committee to call upon Mr. Clinton to inquire of him whether he would consent to be a candidate for re - elec- tion . As was anticipated , he declined . * In 1823 , the candidates for the senate ...
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... citizens living on , or owning lands in the neighborhood of these various routes . The project of procuring the ... citizen ; he therefore can testify to the correctness of this statement . J. D. H. were also projected . These great ...
... citizens living on , or owning lands in the neighborhood of these various routes . The project of procuring the ... citizen ; he therefore can testify to the correctness of this statement . J. D. H. were also projected . These great ...
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Page 673 - No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 132 - 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.
Page 630 - ... shall be entitled to vote at such election in the election district of which he shall at the time be a resident, and not elsewhere, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people...
Page 711 - The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass witheretli, the flower fadeth, because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it : surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth ; but the word of our GOD shall stand for ever.
Page 678 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 621 - No member of the Legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this State, or to the Senate of the United States, from the Governor, the Governor and Senate, or from the Legislature, during the term for which he shall have been elected...
Page 623 - ... ]N"o such law shall take effect until it shall, at a general election, have been submitted to the people, and have received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at such election.
Page 630 - Every male citizen of the age of twentyone years who shall have been a citizen for ten days and an inhabitant of this State one year next preceding an election, and for the last four months a resident of the county and for the last thirty days a resident of the election district in which he may offer his vote, shall be entitled to vote...
Page 681 - The Missouri question was finally settled by a compromise, which tolerated slavery in Missouri, but otherwise prohibited it in all the territory of the United States north and west of the northern limits of Arkansas ; and in August, 1821, Missouri* became the twenty-fourth state in the Union.
Page 255 - ... it is wise and just to disfranchise an entire community of all control over public education, rather than suffer a part to be represented in proportion to its numbers and contributions. Since such considerations are now involved, what has hitherto been discussed as a question of benevolence and of universal education, has become one of equal civil rights, religious tolerance, and liberty of conscience. We could bear with us, in our retirement from public service, no recollection more worthy of...