A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1907, Volume 3Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1908 |
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... condition of the bank and its branches in order to enable the executive department to decide whether the public money was longer safe in its hands . The limited power of the Secretary of the Treasury over the subject disabled him from ...
... condition of the bank and its branches in order to enable the executive department to decide whether the public money was longer safe in its hands . The limited power of the Secretary of the Treasury over the subject disabled him from ...
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... condition abroad is no less honorable than it is prosperous at home . Seeking nothing that is not right and determined to submit to nothing that is wrong , but desiring honest friendships and liberal Andrew Jackson 19.
... condition abroad is no less honorable than it is prosperous at home . Seeking nothing that is not right and determined to submit to nothing that is wrong , but desiring honest friendships and liberal Andrew Jackson 19.
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... condition which promises the continuance of friendship with all nations . With Great Britain the interesting question of our northeastern bound- ary remains still undecided . A negotiation , however , upon that subject has been renewed ...
... condition which promises the continuance of friendship with all nations . With Great Britain the interesting question of our northeastern bound- ary remains still undecided . A negotiation , however , upon that subject has been renewed ...
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... condition , and should I be disappointed in the hope now entertained the subject will be again brought to the notice of Congress in such manner as the occasion may require . The friendly relations which have always been maintained ...
... condition , and should I be disappointed in the hope now entertained the subject will be again brought to the notice of Congress in such manner as the occasion may require . The friendly relations which have always been maintained ...
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... condition of the finances of the country , as will appear from the report which the Secretary of the Treasury will in due time lay before you . The receipts into the Treasury during the present year will amount to more than $ 32,000,000 ...
... condition of the finances of the country , as will appear from the report which the Secretary of the Treasury will in due time lay before you . The receipts into the Treasury during the present year will amount to more than $ 32,000,000 ...
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Page 55 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 262 - 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 63 - Resolved., That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 141 - States in the same from the said foreign nation or from any other foreign country, the said suspension to take effect from the time of such notification being given to the President of the United States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 4 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Page 431 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Page 190 - SIR, I have received the letter, which you did me the honor to write to me on the...
Page 178 - Michigan : and whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states . in . all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page 222 - To the House of Representatives: I transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of War, conveying the information called for by the House in its resolution of yesterday, concerning the Cherokee treaty recently ratified.
Page 209 - If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it ; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.