Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volume 2, Part 2; Volume 45Gales & Seaton, 1825 - Law |
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Page 1797
... pledge said to have been given by our Minister to Mexico , came up as the unfinished busi- ness . Mr. VERPLANCK observed , that , in this resolution , the character of our Minister seemed to him to be con- founded with another , and a ...
... pledge said to have been given by our Minister to Mexico , came up as the unfinished busi- ness . Mr. VERPLANCK observed , that , in this resolution , the character of our Minister seemed to him to be con- founded with another , and a ...
Page 1799
... pledge to the Governments of Mexico and South America , that the United States would not permit the interference of any foreign power with the independence or form of Government of those Nations in what manner ? and to what extent ...
... pledge to the Governments of Mexico and South America , that the United States would not permit the interference of any foreign power with the independence or form of Government of those Nations in what manner ? and to what extent ...
Page 1801
... pledge . Sir , I feel very confi- dent that this is the case ; and , I hold , not only that there is no such pledge , but that there ought not to be ; and , if there has such pledge been given , I , for one , am prepar- ed to resist it ...
... pledge . Sir , I feel very confi- dent that this is the case ; and , I hold , not only that there is no such pledge , but that there ought not to be ; and , if there has such pledge been given , I , for one , am prepar- ed to resist it ...
Page 1803
... pledge the country as bail for the whole sum of a over nice and cautious discretion , too wide a latitude to those who hold the shears , who are able , in the record , to cut in and cut out , just as suits their convenience or ne ...
... pledge the country as bail for the whole sum of a over nice and cautious discretion , too wide a latitude to those who hold the shears , who are able , in the record , to cut in and cut out , just as suits their convenience or ne ...
Page 1805
... pledges us to any alliance in aid of the South American States . It is said that we are pledged , and this pledge is said to refer to President Monroe's Message ; and Mr. Clay , in explaining it , refers to the letter to the Minister at ...
... pledges us to any alliance in aid of the South American States . It is said that we are pledged , and this pledge is said to refer to President Monroe's Message ; and Mr. Clay , in explaining it , refers to the letter to the Minister at ...
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Page 1725 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Page 1669 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Page 2157 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Page 1737 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Page 2159 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected...
Page 2159 - ... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 2157 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 2237 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Page 2037 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 2083 - ... latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld...