Annual Reports of the Officers of State of the State of Indiana1851 |
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50 Sept account of Interest Amount of Duplicate April Assessed by Treasurer Asylum Auditor August August 17 Bank Bonds surrendered bushels Cammann and Whitehouse Cash paid Charles Morrison Church Property Coal Creek Cobb and Johnson Congenital County Cryder Deaf and Dumb debt Delinquencies Collected Edward Mayer Erie Canal Erroneous Assessments Evansville expenditures expenses February February 12 feet Fort Wayne Fund George Peabody Hospital Indiana INDIANAPOLIS Institution issued James G King James Morrison January 27 John Joseph July 1st June King and Sons labor Lafayette Lagro lands Lanier and Company Legislature Logansport March March 16 Mileage miles Moses Allen navigation Nevins non-subscribers to July November October October 12 Paid State Treasurer Prison pupils receipts repairs Revenue Scrip Sistare Stock to non-subscribers Superintendent surrendered by non-subscribers Taxes Refunded Terre Haute Treasurer's Fees Value of Church Wabash and Erie William Winslow
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Page 117 - I beg you at the same time to do me the justice to be assured that this resolution has not been taken without a strict regard to all the considerations appertaining to the relation which binds a dutiful citizen to his country...
Page 122 - The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency.
Page 123 - THERE is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty.
Page 122 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 119 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 126 - ... from whom equal privileges are withheld ; and it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation) facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country without odium, sometimes even with popularity...
Page 119 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence ; the support of your tranquillity at home ; your peace abroad ; of your safety, of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 124 - The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power; by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the Guardian of the Public Weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern;— some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.
Page 124 - From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.
Page 128 - The considerations which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe, that according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent powers, has been virtually admitted by all.