A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 11Bureau of national literature, 1909 |
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... recommended , 3058 , 3124 . Captured on coast of Cuba , 3058 , 3124 , 3126 . Stranded on coast of Florida recom- mended , 967 . Seizure of slaves on board the En- comium and Enterprise , 1499 . Suppression of and suggestions that Great ...
... recommended , 3058 , 3124 . Captured on coast of Cuba , 3058 , 3124 , 3126 . Stranded on coast of Florida recom- mended , 967 . Seizure of slaves on board the En- comium and Enterprise , 1499 . Suppression of and suggestions that Great ...
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... recommend- ed by President Benj . Harrison , 5483 , 5641 . Recommended by President- Arthur , 4651 , 4731 , 4771 . Hayes , 4522 , 4573 . Importation of breech - loading rifles and fixed ammunition into , for- bidden , 4282 ...
... recommend- ed by President Benj . Harrison , 5483 , 5641 . Recommended by President- Arthur , 4651 , 4731 , 4771 . Hayes , 4522 , 4573 . Importation of breech - loading rifles and fixed ammunition into , for- bidden , 4282 ...
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... recommended , 3871 . Fixing military establishment ve- toed , 203 . Making certain debts of soldiers , lien against pay recommended , 4672 . Providing for additional medical officers in volunteer service ve- toed , 3289 . Annuities for ...
... recommended , 3871 . Fixing military establishment ve- toed , 203 . Making certain debts of soldiers , lien against pay recommended , 4672 . Providing for additional medical officers in volunteer service ve- toed , 3289 . Annuities for ...
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... recommended , Medical Department of , reorganiza- tion of , referred to , 3282 . Mileage system , repeal of law abol- ishing , recommended , 4304 . Military establishment act vetoed , 203 . dis- Military peace establishment cussed , 680 ...
... recommended , Medical Department of , reorganiza- tion of , referred to , 3282 . Mileage system , repeal of law abol- ishing , recommended , 4304 . Military establishment act vetoed , 203 . dis- Military peace establishment cussed , 680 ...
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... recommended , 4570 . Recommended , 2624 , 2714 , 2871 , 4724 . Repeal of act limiting numbers on , recommended , 4425 . Organization of , report relating to , transmitted , 995 . Pardons granted deserters . ( See Par- dons . ) Partial ...
... recommended , 4570 . Recommended , 2624 , 2714 , 2871 , 4724 . Repeal of act limiting numbers on , recommended , 4425 . Organization of , report relating to , transmitted , 995 . Pardons granted deserters . ( See Par- dons . ) Partial ...
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Page 217 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Page 446 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 401 - I consider then the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED . EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.
Page 452 - Section 1 provides that every contract combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal.
Page 401 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 218 - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 11 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 15 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 447 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 16 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and...