The Glory of America: Comprising Memoirs of the Lives and Glorious Exploits of Some of the Distinguished Officers Engaged in the Late War with Great Britain ...E. Strong, 1834 - 574 Seiten |
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... Congress from Tennessee , and in the following year the Legislature of that state appointed him one of its members in the Senate of the United States . This situation he resigned in 1799. He succeeded Major- General Conway in the ...
... Congress from Tennessee , and in the following year the Legislature of that state appointed him one of its members in the Senate of the United States . This situation he resigned in 1799. He succeeded Major- General Conway in the ...
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... Congress having passed two laws in the year 1812 , authorizing the President of the United States to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers , General Jackson addressed the militia of his division on the subject , and twenty ...
... Congress having passed two laws in the year 1812 , authorizing the President of the United States to accept the services of fifty thousand volunteers , General Jackson addressed the militia of his division on the subject , and twenty ...
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... Congress . General Cocke brought , by requisition , about two thousand men from West Tennes- see , badly armed , and at the same time pursued a highly dishonourable and disgraceful line of conduct , to produce the failure of the ...
... Congress . General Cocke brought , by requisition , about two thousand men from West Tennes- see , badly armed , and at the same time pursued a highly dishonourable and disgraceful line of conduct , to produce the failure of the ...
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... congress , composed of the senate and house of representatives , is not infallible . It has therefore erected the barrier of the executive veto , against hasty or injudicious action . It contemplates that veto as countervailing the ...
... congress , composed of the senate and house of representatives , is not infallible . It has therefore erected the barrier of the executive veto , against hasty or injudicious action . It contemplates that veto as countervailing the ...
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... congress on whom such an election may have devolved , would not be proper . " While members of congress can be constitutionally appointed to offices of trust and profit , it will be the prac- tice , even under the most conscientious ...
... congress on whom such an election may have devolved , would not be proper . " While members of congress can be constitutionally appointed to offices of trust and profit , it will be the prac- tice , even under the most conscientious ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 112 - I have urged you to look back to the means that were used to hurry you on to the position you have now assumed and forward to the consequences it will produce. Something more is necessary. Contemplate the condition of that country of which you still form an important part. Consider its Government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different States, giving to all their inhabitants the proud title of American citizen, protecting their commerce, securing their literature...
Seite 76 - Office is considered as a species of property ; and government, rather as a means of promoting individual interests, than as an instrument created solely for the service of the people.
Seite 119 - ... unless the Secretary of the Treasury shall at any time otherwise order and direct ; in which case the Secretary of the Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
Seite 76 - In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense.
Seite 113 - Consider its. government, uniting in one bond of common interest and general protection so many different states, giving to all their inhabitants the proud title of AMERICAN CITIZENS, protecting their commerce, securing their literature and their arts, facilitating their intercommunication, defending their frontiers, and making their name respected in the remotest parts of the earth ! Consider the extent of its territory, its increasing and happy population, its advance in arts which render life...
Seite 111 - Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your State pride, to your native courage, to your sense of real injury, were used to prepare you for the period when the mask which concealed the hideous features of DISUNION should be taken off. It fell, and you were made to look with complacency on objects which not long since you would have regarded with horror.
Seite 98 - Union; and that the People of this State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a separate Government, and do all other acts and things which sovereign and independent States may of right do.
Seite 108 - The states severally have not retained their entire sovereignty. It has been shown that, in becoming parts of a nation, not members of a league, they surrendered many of their essential parts of sovereignty.
Seite 65 - Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to ; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power.
Seite 103 - States, or to show that implication, as is now contended, could defeat it. No. we have not erred. The Constitution is still the object of our reverence, the bond of our Union, our defence in danger, the source of our prosperity in peace; it shall descend as we have received it. uncorrupted by sophistical construction, to our posterity; and the sacrifices of local interest, of State prejudices, of personal animosities, that were made to bring it into existence, will again be patriotically offered...