The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches in Congress, and legal arguments and speeches to the juryC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... Court of the District of Massachusetts . ENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK CAMBRIDGE : STEREOTYPED BY METCALF AND COMPANY , PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY . PRINTED BY HOUGHTON AND HAYWOOD DEDICATION OF THE FIFTH VOLUM E. то MY DEAR SIR.
... Court of the District of Massachusetts . ENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK CAMBRIDGE : STEREOTYPED BY METCALF AND COMPANY , PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY . PRINTED BY HOUGHTON AND HAYWOOD DEDICATION OF THE FIFTH VOLUM E. то MY DEAR SIR.
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... York , and referred in like manner to the Judi- ciary Committee . These bills on the 18th of the same month were reported back to the Senate , without amendment . On the 22d of April , Mr. Clayton of Delaware , a member of the Judiciary ...
... York , and referred in like manner to the Judi- ciary Committee . These bills on the 18th of the same month were reported back to the Senate , without amendment . On the 22d of April , Mr. Clayton of Delaware , a member of the Judiciary ...
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... York is supposed to have destroyed property to the amount of twenty or twenty - five millions of dollars , in houses , warehouses , and merchandise . But nobody failed . This is a fact full of admonition . I ask attention to it . Nobody ...
... York is supposed to have destroyed property to the amount of twenty or twenty - five millions of dollars , in houses , warehouses , and merchandise . But nobody failed . This is a fact full of admonition . I ask attention to it . Nobody ...
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... York , which has been read . Sir , such is not my opinion , nor the fruit of my experience . I believe that creditors are generally hu- mane and just ; but there will always , or often , be some who are selfish , unjust , or indifferent ...
... York , which has been read . Sir , such is not my opinion , nor the fruit of my experience . I believe that creditors are generally hu- mane and just ; but there will always , or often , be some who are selfish , unjust , or indifferent ...
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... York , " or any other gentleman , can frame a clause for that purpose , at once efficient and safe , I shall vote for it . Even as these clauses now stand , I should prefer to have them in the bill ; my original proposition having been ...
... York , " or any other gentleman , can frame a clause for that purpose , at once efficient and safe , I shall vote for it . Even as these clauses now stand , I should prefer to have them in the bill ; my original proposition having been ...
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Page 487 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 484 - Upon principle, every statute which takes away or impairs vested rights acquired under existing laws, or creates a new obligation, imposes a new duty, or attaches a new disability, in respect to transactions or considerations already past, must be deemed retrospective.
Page 341 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provision of the Federal Constitution.
Page vii - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 121 - was a public act of persons in her Majesty's service, obeying the order of their superior authorities.
Page 81 - East by a line to be drawn along the middle of the river St. Croix, from its mouth in the bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid highlands which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 419 - A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
Page 361 - ... to see them quit their places and fly off without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe. There can be no such thjng as a peaceable secession.
Page 81 - 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...
Page 493 - A contract is a compact between two or more parties, and is either executory or executed. An executory contract is one in which a party binds himself to do, or not to do, a particular thing ; such was the law under which the conveyance was made by the governor.