Life and Times of Silas Wright, Late Governor of the State of New York |
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Page 48
... recommend the passage of a law , providing for a choice by the people , by general tick- et , of a number of electors of president and vice - president of the United States , equal to the number of representa- tives in the congress of ...
... recommend the passage of a law , providing for a choice by the people , by general tick- et , of a number of electors of president and vice - president of the United States , equal to the number of representa- tives in the congress of ...
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... recommended the passage of a law authorizing the people of the state to choose , by general ticket , and by a plurality of votes , electors for president and vice - president . In the senate this part of the message was referred by ...
... recommended the passage of a law authorizing the people of the state to choose , by general ticket , and by a plurality of votes , electors for president and vice - president . In the senate this part of the message was referred by ...
Page 63
... recommended the repeal of the law providing for the choice of electors by districts , which we have seen was enacted ... recommended by Mr. Clinton , and which , by their votes , they had condemned . We are free to say , that in our ...
... recommended the repeal of the law providing for the choice of electors by districts , which we have seen was enacted ... recommended by Mr. Clinton , and which , by their votes , they had condemned . We are free to say , that in our ...
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... recommended by Gov , Clinton , for the construction , by the state , of a road , from some point on the Hudson river , through the western tier of counties , to Lake Erie . The electors therefore in some of those counties , and ...
... recommended by Gov , Clinton , for the construction , by the state , of a road , from some point on the Hudson river , through the western tier of counties , to Lake Erie . The electors therefore in some of those counties , and ...
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... recommend that immediate measures be taken by the legislature to effect such enlargement . In con- clusion the board say : - " In urging upon the consideration of the legislature the importance of au- thorizing at the present session ...
... recommend that immediate measures be taken by the legislature to effect such enlargement . In con- clusion the board say : - " In urging upon the consideration of the legislature the importance of au- thorizing at the present session ...
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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...