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 5; Volume 20; Volume 49Gales & Seaton, 1830 |
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... Federal Government . This bill barely authorized them to be offered for sale ; it did not order their sale ; there was no coercion - on the contrary , the notice of the sale was not of the ordinary kind . Public notice was to be given ...
... Federal Government . This bill barely authorized them to be offered for sale ; it did not order their sale ; there was no coercion - on the contrary , the notice of the sale was not of the ordinary kind . Public notice was to be given ...
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... Federal Government , and give up to Con- gress every “ sixteenth section , " for the privilege of taxing the United States ' lands within their limits , and appropri- ating the money to the support of her schools and her government ...
... Federal Government , and give up to Con- gress every “ sixteenth section , " for the privilege of taxing the United States ' lands within their limits , and appropri- ating the money to the support of her schools and her government ...
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... Federal Government has not been worth one cent to the people , the amount received from sales being swallowed up in expenses , or lost in interest upon the capital of land unsold , while paying interest upon the capital of the debt ...
... Federal Government has not been worth one cent to the people , the amount received from sales being swallowed up in expenses , or lost in interest upon the capital of land unsold , while paying interest upon the capital of the debt ...
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... Federal Government . This sum is now mortgaged to the payment of the public debt , and its ap- plication to that object being fixed and regular , involves the exercise of but little patronage . Released from that mortgage , it would be ...
... Federal Government . This sum is now mortgaged to the payment of the public debt , and its ap- plication to that object being fixed and regular , involves the exercise of but little patronage . Released from that mortgage , it would be ...
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... Federal Government , and diminished the affection of large masses of the people to the Union itself , and the aban donment of the degrading system which considers the people as incapa- ble of wisely directing their own enterprise ...
... Federal Government , and diminished the affection of large masses of the people to the Union itself , and the aban donment of the degrading system which considers the people as incapa- ble of wisely directing their own enterprise ...
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Page 231 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 231 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 231 - The legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
Page 184 - And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and he was uncovered within his tent.
Page 184 - And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father's nakedness.
Page 227 - ... with any king, prince or state ; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state ; nor shall the United States in Congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility.
Page 277 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the Government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the National Legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 130 - ... of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.
Page 130 - It is agreed that any country that may be claimed by either party on the northwest coast of America, westward of the Stony Mountains, shall, together with its harbors, bays, and creeks, and the navigation of all rivers within the same, be free and open for the term of ten years from the date of the signature of the present convention, to the vessels, citizens, and subjects of the two Powers...
Page 323 - ... leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said state, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several states through which the road shall pass...