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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... received , and nobody shall contradict it . In other words , a fiction , not very innocent , shall be allowed to overcome an unconstitutional objection . The gentleman has been misled by a false analogy . He has adopted an example which ...
... received , and nobody shall contradict it . In other words , a fiction , not very innocent , shall be allowed to overcome an unconstitutional objection . The gentleman has been misled by a false analogy . He has adopted an example which ...
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... received a discharge ? And this , be assured , many of them would have done , if the law had pro- vided that by so doing they should obtain that discharge . But there was no such legal provision ; they had no hope on that side , but ...
... received a discharge ? And this , be assured , many of them would have done , if the law had pro- vided that by so doing they should obtain that discharge . But there was no such legal provision ; they had no hope on that side , but ...
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... received his just proportion , he might have been saved . The great interest of the mass of creditors is , that the debtor's effects shall be equally divided among them all . At present , there is no security for such equal division ...
... received his just proportion , he might have been saved . The great interest of the mass of creditors is , that the debtor's effects shall be equally divided among them all . At present , there is no security for such equal division ...
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... received eight millions . Now , Sir , these are all items of a preëxisting fund , no part of which has accrued since January , 1837 . To these I may add the outstanding treasury - notes running on interest ( four and a half millions ) ...
... received eight millions . Now , Sir , these are all items of a preëxisting fund , no part of which has accrued since January , 1837 . To these I may add the outstanding treasury - notes running on interest ( four and a half millions ) ...
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... received from the land offices had been " mixed up in the general fund . " Here , then , is one item of trust money , money not our own , which has been mixed up with our own money , and received as part of the available funds of the ...
... received from the land offices had been " mixed up in the general fund . " Here , then , is one item of trust money , money not our own , which has been mixed up with our own money , and received as part of the available funds of the ...
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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.