Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session - 50th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 1 |
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... duty assigned it ; and that the President answered , that he would , this day , make to the two Houses of Congress a communication , in writing . A message , in writing , was then received from the President of the United States , by Mr ...
... duty assigned it ; and that the President answered , that he would , this day , make to the two Houses of Congress a communication , in writing . A message , in writing , was then received from the President of the United States , by Mr ...
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... duty which I shail deem it a privilege to discharge . Although the result is , itself , the best commentary on the services render- ed to his country by our Minister at the court of St. James , it would be doing violence to my feelings ...
... duty which I shail deem it a privilege to discharge . Although the result is , itself , the best commentary on the services render- ed to his country by our Minister at the court of St. James , it would be doing violence to my feelings ...
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... duties . I have received the most satisfactory assurances that , in the mean time , the public interest in that ... duty of Con- gress to pass the necessary laws for the organization of the Board of Com- missioners to distribute the ...
... duties . I have received the most satisfactory assurances that , in the mean time , the public interest in that ... duty of Con- gress to pass the necessary laws for the organization of the Board of Com- missioners to distribute the ...
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... duty . The illegality of the seizures and confiscations out of which they have arisen is not disputed ; and whatever distinctions may have heretofore been set up in regard to the liability of the existing Government , it is quite clear ...
... duty . The illegality of the seizures and confiscations out of which they have arisen is not disputed ; and whatever distinctions may have heretofore been set up in regard to the liability of the existing Government , it is quite clear ...
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... duty to avoid all unnecessary expense , as well as every in- crease of patronage not called for by the public service . But , in the discharge of that duty in this particular , it must not be forgotten that , in relation to our foreign ...
... duty to avoid all unnecessary expense , as well as every in- crease of patronage not called for by the public service . But , in the discharge of that duty in this particular , it must not be forgotten that , in relation to our foreign ...
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Abraham Bockee affirmative amendment Augustine H Benjamin Swift bill was read Cambreleng Campbell Charles committed Committee of Claims Committee on Commerce Committee on Military Daniel desired by one-fifth district Ebenezer engrossed entitled An act expediency further consideration George Loyall Horace Everett instructed to inquire Isaac Finch Isaac Pierson Jacob Crocheron James Findlay James Lent James Trezvant Jehiel H Jesse Speight Joel John Roane Jonah Sanford Jonas Earll Joseph Draper Joseph Lecompte laid Leonard Jarvis Messrs Military Pensions motion nays being desired Ohio Ordered Pensions be instructed Perkins King Peter Ihrie petition of inhabitants petition of John petition was referred praying presented a memorial presented a petition Pryor Lea Public Lands read a third relief resolution Resolved Richard Robert E. B. Baylor Rufus McIntire Secretary Senate Speaker Spencer Pettis Starling Tucker Sterigere Storrs Thomas Chilton Thomas H United Verplanck voted Whole House to-morrow Wickliffe William W
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Page 26 - What good man would prefer a country covered with forests and ranged by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms, embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization, and religion ? The present policy of the Government is but a continuation of the same progressive change by a milder process.
Page 49 - Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed to inquire into the expediency of appropriating thirty thousand dollars, to enable Professor Morse to establish a line of telegraph between Washington and Baltimore.