Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3Perkins & Marvin, 1843 |
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... Constitution on all power , nor will he bestow public offices as the reward or the motive for adherence to his party or his person . If in the minority , he will find inducement enough and reward enough for the most strenuous exertion ...
... Constitution on all power , nor will he bestow public offices as the reward or the motive for adherence to his party or his person . If in the minority , he will find inducement enough and reward enough for the most strenuous exertion ...
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... Constitution " is a title quite too high for me . He who shall prove himself the ablest , among the able men of the country ; he who shall serve it longest , among those who may serve it long ; he on whose labors all the stars of ...
... Constitution " is a title quite too high for me . He who shall prove himself the ablest , among the able men of the country ; he who shall serve it longest , among those who may serve it long ; he on whose labors all the stars of ...
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... Constitution ; your fixed purpose , so far as in you lies , to maintain those principles ; and your resolution to support public men , and stand by them , so long , and no longer , than they shall support and stand by the Constitution ...
... Constitution ; your fixed purpose , so far as in you lies , to maintain those principles ; and your resolution to support public men , and stand by them , so long , and no longer , than they shall support and stand by the Constitution ...
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... Constitution was about to be abandoned . Threatened with most serious dangers , it was not only not defended , but attacked , as I thought , and weakened and wound- ed in its vital powers and faculties , by those to whom the country ...
... Constitution was about to be abandoned . Threatened with most serious dangers , it was not only not defended , but attacked , as I thought , and weakened and wound- ed in its vital powers and faculties , by those to whom the country ...
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... Constitution , again , is founded on compromise , and the most perfect and absolute good faith , in regard to every stipulation of this kind contained in it , is indispensable to its preservation . Every attempt to accomplish even the ...
... Constitution , again , is founded on compromise , and the most perfect and absolute good faith , in regard to every stipulation of this kind contained in it , is indispensable to its preservation . Every attempt to accomplish even the ...
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Page 382 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 482 - Union; but for the interests of the community at large, as well as for the purposes of the Treasury, it is essential that the nation should possess a currency of equal value, credit, and use wherever it may circulate. The Constitution has intrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that description...
Page 352 - Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.
Page 143 - We have slavery already amongst us. The Constitution found it in the Union ; it recognized it, and gave it solemn guaranties. To the full extent of these guaranties we are all bound, in honor, in justice, and by the Constitution. All the stipulations contained in the Constitution in favor of the slave-holding States which are already in the Union ought to be fulfilled, and, so far as depends on me, shall be fulfilled, in the fulness of their spirit and to the exactness of their letter.
Page 40 - California, and of the 12th section of the Act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled An Act making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three and for other purposes...
Page 101 - Secretary's order, there is not a word in it having any such tendency ; not a syllable which has any application to the matter. That section simply declares, that after the first day of July, in that year, every purchaser of land at public sale shall, on the day of purchase, make a complete payment therefor; and the purchaser at private sale shall produce a receipt for the amount of the purchase money on any tract, before he shall enter the same at the land office.
Page 443 - Congress shall have power * * * to establish * * * uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
Page 250 - December, 1837, shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of an act entitled ' An Act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands...
Page 235 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Page 336 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...