Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: May 24, 1813-March 3, 1817D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... officers who direct the Ministerial departments - public virtues , emulated by few Governments , need no encomiums . Fidelity and integrity , unsubdued by the severest ordeals , and presaging to public calamities a favor- able issue ...
... officers who direct the Ministerial departments - public virtues , emulated by few Governments , need no encomiums . Fidelity and integrity , unsubdued by the severest ordeals , and presaging to public calamities a favor- able issue ...
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... officer , I believed with them to be founded in sound principle , and its influence was visible on the vote of this House a principle whose influence cherishes , not only the character of the honest officer of the Government , but ...
... officer , I believed with them to be founded in sound principle , and its influence was visible on the vote of this House a principle whose influence cherishes , not only the character of the honest officer of the Government , but ...
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... officers , seamen , and marines , of the enemy , by holding out the offer of a bounty for all such captives . A motion was made by Mr. BIBB to amend the first resolution , by striking out the words " by diminishing the duties on prizes ...
... officers , seamen , and marines , of the enemy , by holding out the offer of a bounty for all such captives . A motion was made by Mr. BIBB to amend the first resolution , by striking out the words " by diminishing the duties on prizes ...
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... officers , and crews of private armed vessels . Be it enacted , & c . , That a bounty of twenty - five dollars be paid to the owners , officers , and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States , com- missioned as letters of ...
... officers , and crews of private armed vessels . Be it enacted , & c . , That a bounty of twenty - five dollars be paid to the owners , officers , and crews of the private armed vessels of the United States , com- missioned as letters of ...
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... officers of British armed vessels to force impressed Ameri- cans to serve against their country by threats , by corporal punishment , and even by the fear of imme- diate execution ; an instructing commentary upon the professions of the ...
... officers of British armed vessels to force impressed Ameri- cans to serve against their country by threats , by corporal punishment , and even by the fear of imme- diate execution ; an instructing commentary upon the professions of the ...
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Page 160 - That palter with us in a double sense ; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.
Page 238 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 158 - O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united! For in their anger they slew a man, and in their self-will they digged down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Page 257 - ... that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he absolutely and entirely renounces and abjures all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty and particularly by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which he was before a citizen or subject...
Page 291 - I have considered the subject of the letter which you did me the honor to address to me on the 9th...
Page 238 - ... counsel, advise or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor...
Page 16 - That a committee of three Members be appointed on the part of the House, to join such committee as may be appointed on the part of the Senate, to wait on the President of the United States and inform him that a quorum of the two Houses has assembled, and that Congress is ready to receive any communication he may be pleased to make.
Page 99 - So often and so essentially have we heretofore suffered from the want of secrecy and. dispatch that the Constitution would have been inexcusably defective if no attention had been paid to those objects.
Page 10 - that the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the Senate copies,
Page 84 - March one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used...