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... duties to protect English merchants and manu- facturers . Suffering under these burdens , the Scotch - Irish began to emigrate to the new land of promise . At first only a few hundred came to Pennsylvania , Maryland , and the Carolinas ...
... duties to protect English merchants and manu- facturers . Suffering under these burdens , the Scotch - Irish began to emigrate to the new land of promise . At first only a few hundred came to Pennsylvania , Maryland , and the Carolinas ...
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... duties collected on the enumerated 1 This act made England the " staple " for colonial trade . The duties collected in English ports on European goods destined for the colonies protected the Brit- ish merchants from competition . On ...
... duties collected on the enumerated 1 This act made England the " staple " for colonial trade . The duties collected in English ports on European goods destined for the colonies protected the Brit- ish merchants from competition . On ...
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... duties of 9d . a gallon on rum , 6d . a gallon on molasses , and 5s . a hundredweight on sugar imported into the American colonies from the Spanish , French , and Dutch islands . As the British West Indies could not begin to furnish ...
... duties of 9d . a gallon on rum , 6d . a gallon on molasses , and 5s . a hundredweight on sugar imported into the American colonies from the Spanish , French , and Dutch islands . As the British West Indies could not begin to furnish ...
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... duties , land tax , excise on liquors , import duties , etc. When Walpole was urged to adopt such a policy he replied that he had half of old Eng- land against him and that he didn't care to add the enmity of the new England ...
... duties , land tax , excise on liquors , import duties , etc. When Walpole was urged to adopt such a policy he replied that he had half of old Eng- land against him and that he didn't care to add the enmity of the new England ...
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... duties were col- lected . Of course , during the war with France such traffic was not only illicit but treasonable . Admiral Hawkes testified to the Board of Trade in 1750 that he " certainly would have taken Martinique if it had not ...
... duties were col- lected . Of course , during the war with France such traffic was not only illicit but treasonable . Admiral Hawkes testified to the Board of Trade in 1750 that he " certainly would have taken Martinique if it had not ...
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Page 114 - Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward:" provided also that no State shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States.
Page 137 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 326 - ... is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting, in all instances, the just claims of every power; submitting to injuries from none.
Page 364 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 324 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisAtlantic affairs.
Page 509 - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall. But I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 181 - I will never send another Minister to France without assurances that he will be received, respected, and honored, as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.
Page 509 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 610 - I am not accustomed to the use of language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women ; but I must say, that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.
Page 617 - Mexico, and that they therefore think fit to declare that it does not accord with the policy of the United States to acknowledge any monarchical Government erected on the ruins of any republican Government in America under the auspices of any European power.