The Congressional Globe, Band 14Blair & Rives, 1844 |
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... argument urged here by gentle- men who were its advocates , was an impeachment forever of the title of the United States to Oregan . The negotiation for the settlement of that ques- tion is in progress . We have adopted the course that ...
... argument urged here by gentle- men who were its advocates , was an impeachment forever of the title of the United States to Oregan . The negotiation for the settlement of that ques- tion is in progress . We have adopted the course that ...
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... argument against sending this bill to a com- mittee for action , and not for suspension . He had no doubt that , when returned for action , the Senate will be able not only to protect the interests of the country , but to maintain the ...
... argument against sending this bill to a com- mittee for action , and not for suspension . He had no doubt that , when returned for action , the Senate will be able not only to protect the interests of the country , but to maintain the ...
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... argument of the gentleman from Vermont . Mr. C. understood him to say that , as by the great sales of the public land in 1835 and 1836 , much remained in the hands of individuals , ( speculators , ) the pass- age of this bill might ...
... argument of the gentleman from Vermont . Mr. C. understood him to say that , as by the great sales of the public land in 1835 and 1836 , much remained in the hands of individuals , ( speculators , ) the pass- age of this bill might ...
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... argument that has been pressed into the service of the opposition . It is this : that a reduction — or graduation , which they maintain is the same thing - would reduce the price of the lands in the old States , and draw off to the ...
... argument that has been pressed into the service of the opposition . It is this : that a reduction — or graduation , which they maintain is the same thing - would reduce the price of the lands in the old States , and draw off to the ...
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... argument , supposed precedent is advert- ed to . He would have been glad to hear a judicial argument to support any supposed analogy to the case of Louisiana . That member of the Union came in at first with no such view as applies to ...
... argument , supposed precedent is advert- ed to . He would have been glad to hear a judicial argument to support any supposed analogy to the case of Louisiana . That member of the Union came in at first with no such view as applies to ...
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Seite 57 - Red river ; then following the course of the Rio Roxo westward, to the degree of longitude 100 west from London, and 23 from Washington ; then crossing the said Red river, and running thence by a line due north, to the river Arkansas ; thence following the course of the southern bank of the Arkansas, to its source, in latitude 42 north: and thence by that parallel of latitude to the south sea.
Seite 39 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United 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...
Seite 21 - Act supplementary to the act entitled "an Act to establish the Treasury Department." Be it enacted . . . That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to digest, prepare and lay before Congress at the commencement of every session, a report on the subject of finance, containing estimates of the public revenue and public expenditures, and plans for improving or increasing the revenues, from time to time, for the purpose of giving information to Congress in adopting modes of raising the...
Seite 21 - Treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit...
Seite 21 - Nations or States are bodies politic ; societies of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage, by the joint efforts of their mutual strength. Such a society has her affairs and her interests; she deliberates and takes resolutions in common; thus becoming a moral person, who possesses an understanding and a will peculiar to herself.
Seite 72 - The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive, in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Seite 178 - And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
Seite 110 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the admission of States lawfully arising within the limits of the United States, whether from a voluntary junction of Government and Territory or otherwise, with the consent of a number of voices in the National legislature less than the whole.
Seite 166 - being well understood, that this agreement is not to be construed to the prejudice of any claim, which either of the two high contracting parties may have to any part of the said country, nor shall it be taken to affect the claims of any other Power or State to any part of the said country; the only object of the high contracting parties, in that respect, 'being to prevent disputes and differences amongst themselves.
Seite 65 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.