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... hoped that such a committee would not be appointed , as , if all the unfinished business of last session were to be ... hoped they should soon be able to get through them . He hoped , therefore , no business would be taken up until that ...
... hoped that such a committee would not be appointed , as , if all the unfinished business of last session were to be ... hoped they should soon be able to get through them . He hoped , therefore , no business would be taken up until that ...
Page 61
... hoped they should not decide any thing , before they had disposed of the President's Speech . Mr. NICHOLAS hoped this business would be [ H. of R. settled so as to meet the wishes of the House . He hoped a committee would be appointed ...
... hoped they should not decide any thing , before they had disposed of the President's Speech . Mr. NICHOLAS hoped this business would be [ H. of R. settled so as to meet the wishes of the House . He hoped a committee would be appointed ...
Page 85
... hoped we had suffi- cient confidence in the means of defence which we possessed , if driven to the last resort ; and he believed if there was any one more certain way of provoking war than another , it was that of pro- claiming our own ...
... hoped we had suffi- cient confidence in the means of defence which we possessed , if driven to the last resort ; and he believed if there was any one more certain way of provoking war than another , it was that of pro- claiming our own ...
Page 91
... not France was most to be feared in this respect . He hoped there would be found . however , in the country , virtue enough to repel all foreign in- fluence . MAY , 1797. ] As to the amendment , he 91 92 HISTORY OF CONGRESS .
... not France was most to be feared in this respect . He hoped there would be found . however , in the country , virtue enough to repel all foreign in- fluence . MAY , 1797. ] As to the amendment , he 91 92 HISTORY OF CONGRESS .
Page 95
... hoped it would not be perverted . tion on the part of France for an accommodation . No member appearing inclined to rise , after He believed the gentleman had wholly mista- | Mr. NICHOLAS had sat down , there was a call for ken the ...
... hoped it would not be perverted . tion on the part of France for an accommodation . No member appearing inclined to rise , after He believed the gentleman had wholly mista- | Mr. NICHOLAS had sat down , there was a call for ken the ...
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Page 599 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Page 607 - States respectively, or to the people," therefore also the same act of Congress passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and entitled "An act in addition to the act entitled an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States...
Page 631 - Hidalgo, and the said article and the thirty-third article of the treaty of Amity, commerce, and navigation...
Page 479 - An act to regulate trade, and intercourse with the Indian tribes and to preserve peace on the frontiers.
Page 621 - I have finally determined to accept the commission of Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States, with the reserve only, that I shall not be called into the field, until the army is in a situation to require my presence, or it becomes indispensable by the urgency of circumstances.
Page 55 - Such attempts ought to be repelled with a decision which shall convince France and the world that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.
Page 49 - In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.
Page 563 - An act more effectually to protect the commerce and coasts of the United States.
Page 593 - ... present shall agree, at the expense of such absent members, respectively, unless such excuse for non-attendance shall be made as the Senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient : and in that case the expense shall be paid out of the contingent fund. And this rule shall apply as well to the first convention of the Senate, at the legal time of meeting, as to each day of the session, after the hour is arrived to which the Senate stood adjourned.
Page 55 - The diplomatic intercourse between the United States and France being at present suspended, the Government has no means of obtaining official information from that country. Nevertheless, there is reason to believe that the Executive Directory passed a decree on the...