The History of Political Parties in the State of New-York: From the Ratification of the Federal Constitution to December, 1840 ...Phinney & Company, 1849 - New York (State) |
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... expressed . Within two or three of the last years , friends re- siding in various parts of the state , belonging to different par- ties , have urged me to continue my narrative of political parties , but I have uniformly replied , that ...
... expressed . Within two or three of the last years , friends re- siding in various parts of the state , belonging to different par- ties , have urged me to continue my narrative of political parties , but I have uniformly replied , that ...
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... expressed by him provious to the Extra Session of Congress - At the Extra Session Mr. Wright reports the Independent Treasury Bill - It passes the Sen- ato , but is lost in the House of Representatives - He brings in the same bill at ...
... expressed by him provious to the Extra Session of Congress - At the Extra Session Mr. Wright reports the Independent Treasury Bill - It passes the Sen- ato , but is lost in the House of Representatives - He brings in the same bill at ...
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... expressed to Mr. Wright his anxious de- sire that he should locate himself permanently in the vil- lage of Canton ; and as an inducement to Mr. W. to accede to his wishes , he offered to build , and did event- ually " build a small ...
... expressed to Mr. Wright his anxious de- sire that he should locate himself permanently in the vil- lage of Canton ; and as an inducement to Mr. W. to accede to his wishes , he offered to build , and did event- ually " build a small ...
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... expressed great anger at Mr. Wright , and said to him , ' I did not employ you to rake my character , nor do I thank you for doing it . ' Mr. Wright replied , ' My dear sir , your character in this whole transaction has been so bad ...
... expressed great anger at Mr. Wright , and said to him , ' I did not employ you to rake my character , nor do I thank you for doing it . ' Mr. Wright replied , ' My dear sir , your character in this whole transaction has been so bad ...
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... expressed the utmost surprise how he could accomplish so much . When in the field on his farm , he would perform and work as long as the stoutest farmers . There was no fiction about his labor ; it was real , thorough hard work . He did ...
... expressed the utmost surprise how he could accomplish so much . When in the field on his farm , he would perform and work as long as the stoutest farmers . There was no fiction about his labor ; it was real , thorough hard work . He did ...
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Page 608 - ... 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 611 - No lease or grant of agricultural land, for a longer period than twelve years, hereafter made, in which shall be reserved any rent or service of any kind, shall be valid.
Page 654 - 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 605 - ... next after the passage of such appropriation act; and every such law making a new appropriation, or continuing or reviving an appropriation, shall distinctly specify the sum appropriated, and the object to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law to refer to any other law to fix such sum.
Page 580 - 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, or from any city government during the time for which he shall have been elected ; and all such appointments and all votes given for any such member, for any such office or appointment, shall be void.
Page 602 - ... ]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 87 - That the Senators of this State in the Congress of the United States...
Page 398 - I promised God that I would look upon every Prussian peasant child as a being who could complain of me before God if I did not provide for him the best education as a man and a Christian which it was possible for me to provide.
Page 41 - J., in his dissenting opinion, reviews the course of decision in the state of New York, as well as in other states, and comes to the conclusion, which is, we think, unassailable, that the majority opinion was wrong. The decision in this case is to us a curious one, inasmuch as we find the same court, only one year previous, in the case of Hendricks v.
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