American History Told by Contemporaries ..., Volume 3Albert Bushnell Hart Macmillan, 1845 |
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... received in the United States : " Be it further enacted , That at the expiration of the term of confinement for which any prisoner is , or shall be sentenced to Newgate - prison , if it appear by the warrant of commitment , that he is ...
... received in the United States : " Be it further enacted , That at the expiration of the term of confinement for which any prisoner is , or shall be sentenced to Newgate - prison , if it appear by the warrant of commitment , that he is ...
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... received from their working the Lands , making no allowance at all for the trouble and Risk of the Masters as to the Crops , and Negroes . How much greater then must be the value of an Estate here if these poor enslaved Africans were ...
... received from their working the Lands , making no allowance at all for the trouble and Risk of the Masters as to the Crops , and Negroes . How much greater then must be the value of an Estate here if these poor enslaved Africans were ...
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... received decent accommodations at Patterson's on the margin of the lake , but were troubled the most of the night by gamblers and fleas , two curses to society . At nine o'clock this fine morning we re - embarked , and traversed ...
... received decent accommodations at Patterson's on the margin of the lake , but were troubled the most of the night by gamblers and fleas , two curses to society . At nine o'clock this fine morning we re - embarked , and traversed ...
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... receiving the vote of every member . A promise to one , was not broken , by voting also for another , unless it was exclusively made . The president had , probably , given a promise to colonel Atlee as well as to myself ; and ...
... receiving the vote of every member . A promise to one , was not broken , by voting also for another , unless it was exclusively made . The president had , probably , given a promise to colonel Atlee as well as to myself ; and ...
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... received your letter of the 18th of October . The sen- timents and observations contained in it demand my attention . A republic , you tell me , is a government in which " the people have an essential share in the sovereignty . " Is not ...
... received your letter of the 18th of October . The sen- timents and observations contained in it demand my attention . A republic , you tell me , is a government in which " the people have an essential share in the sovereignty . " Is not ...
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Page 478 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 327 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page xxi - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 432 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 311 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Page 518 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's government; made for the people; made by the people ; and answerable to the people.
Page 329 - ... economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith ; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid...
Page 530 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 403 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Page 328 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.