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Page 52 - All Men are created Equal; and are endowed by their Creator with the Inalienable Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
Page 736 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to use all...
Page 52 - I am aware that all the Abolition lecturers that you find traveling about through the country are in the habit of reading the Declaration of Independence to prove that all men were created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Page 256 - That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law...
Page 47 - It is manifest that treason, most flagrant in character, has been committed. Persons who are charged with its commission should have fair and impartial trials in the highest civil tribunals of the country, in order that the Constitution and the laws may be fully vindicated, the truth clearly established and affirmed that treason is a crime, that traitors should be punished and the offense made infamous...
Page 331 - The Treasurer shall hold all moneys belonging to the district, and pay out the same on the order of the President, countersigned by the Secretary, and shall keep a correct account of all expenses and receipts in a book provided for the purpose.
Page 78 - There shall be a joint committee on the library, to consist of three members on the part of the Senate and three on the part of the House of Representatives...
Page 149 - ... communicating sundry resolutions of the legislature of that State and claiming the reimbursement of certain moneys paid to John and Phineas R. Harford for losses and expenses incurred by them under circumstances explained in the accompanying papers. ANDREW JACKSON. WASHINGTON, February 6, 1837. The SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: In compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, I herewith transmit the report[26] of the Secretary of the Navy, which...
Page 34 - Dunnigan offered a resolution in the words following: Resolved that a committee of two be appointed to wait upon the Governor and inform him that...
Page 67 - Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring) : That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States...