The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... never come when the opinion of this body , to have sufficient good reasons in its support , solemnly expressed , would not have a great moral should be opposed by the gentleman merely because effect out of doors as well as in doors ...
... never come when the opinion of this body , to have sufficient good reasons in its support , solemnly expressed , would not have a great moral should be opposed by the gentleman merely because effect out of doors as well as in doors ...
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... never supposed at that day they had a power to require a constitution from a new State coming into the Union , nor to examine if such constitution was republican . Mr. S. said he knew very well that the people of that respectable State ...
... never supposed at that day they had a power to require a constitution from a new State coming into the Union , nor to examine if such constitution was republican . Mr. S. said he knew very well that the people of that respectable State ...
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... never to insult or strike white peo- ple , nor presume to conceive themselves equal to the white ; but , on the contrary , that they ought ' to yield to them on every occasion , and never ' speak or answer to them but with respect ...
... never to insult or strike white peo- ple , nor presume to conceive themselves equal to the white ; but , on the contrary , that they ought ' to yield to them on every occasion , and never ' speak or answer to them but with respect ...
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... never ought , and we trust never will , plant the standard of the Union in Missouri , to wave over the heads of involuntary slaves , " who have noth- ing they can call their own , except their sorrows and their sufferings , " and a life ...
... never ought , and we trust never will , plant the standard of the Union in Missouri , to wave over the heads of involuntary slaves , " who have noth- ing they can call their own , except their sorrows and their sufferings , " and a life ...
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... never to interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States , nor with any regulations Congress may find ne- cessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers . Now , a title is never per- fected ...
... never to interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States , nor with any regulations Congress may find ne- cessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers . Now , a title is never per- fected ...
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Page 731 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 543 - 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.
Page 111 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Page 55 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 337 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Page 731 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Page 607 - States in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State...
Page 671 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Page 783 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion. Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home.
Page 93 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...