The Congressional GlobeBlair & Rives, 1837 - United States |
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Page 1175
... duty it is to pre- serve them . From what source could more satisfactory tes- timony be received ! It must be conclusive as to the result of the election , in the absence of all evidence to the contrary . The great argument which is ...
... duty it is to pre- serve them . From what source could more satisfactory tes- timony be received ! It must be conclusive as to the result of the election , in the absence of all evidence to the contrary . The great argument which is ...
Page 1183
... duty of the same people considered as a part of a confederacy- the duty of maintaining the Government in its integrity . 4th . It prevented immense public inconvenience ; never , indeed , could the argument ab inconvenienti be stronger ...
... duty of the same people considered as a part of a confederacy- the duty of maintaining the Government in its integrity . 4th . It prevented immense public inconvenience ; never , indeed , could the argument ab inconvenienti be stronger ...
Page 1185
... duty under the sec- ond section of the constitution as little irksome or annoying as possible to themselves , therefore they were left at perfect liberty to perform it or not , at their pleasure ? that because they may regulate the ...
... duty under the sec- ond section of the constitution as little irksome or annoying as possible to themselves , therefore they were left at perfect liberty to perform it or not , at their pleasure ? that because they may regulate the ...
Page 1191
... duty , to order an election to fill a vacancy in this House , no term of limitation is used restricting that right and that duty to any particular set of circumstances whatsoever . The words of the constitution are : " When vacancies ...
... duty , to order an election to fill a vacancy in this House , no term of limitation is used restricting that right and that duty to any particular set of circumstances whatsoever . The words of the constitution are : " When vacancies ...
Page 1193
... duty of the Legislatures of the States , and in default of them of Congress , to keep up a perpetual suc- cession in the representative body ; and in the failure of either to do so , the right and the duty of the Governor of a State ...
... duty of the Legislatures of the States , and in default of them of Congress , to keep up a perpetual suc- cession in the representative body ; and in the failure of either to do so , the right and the duty of the Governor of a State ...
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Page 1617 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states, in proportion to the value of all land within each state...
Page 1617 - That the General Assembly doth also express its deep regret that a spirit has in sundry instances been manifested by the Federal Government to enlarge its powers by forced constructions of the constitutional charter which defines them...
Page 1769 - The history of trade in the United States, for the last three or four years, affords the most convincing evidence that our present condition is chiefly to be attributed to over-action in all the departments of business ; an over-action deriving, perhaps, its first impulses from antecedent causes, but stimulated to its destructive consequences by excessive issues of bank paper, and by other facilities for the acquisition and enlargement of credit...
Page 1771 - ... the rapid growth among all classes, and especially in our great commercial towns, of luxurious habits, founded too often on merely fancied wealth, and detrimental alike to the industry, the resources, and the morals of our people.
Page 3 - Department, who also holds office at the pleasure of the President, and some other officers of the same Department, must necessarily be invested with more or less power in the selection, continuance, and supervision of the banks that may be employed. The question is then narrowed to the single point whether in the intermediate stage between the collection and disbursement of the public money the agency of banks is necessary to avoid a dangerous extension of the patronage and influence of the Executive....
Page 1481 - The most material difference between the results in the two countries has only been that with us there has also occurred an extensive derangement in the fiscal affairs of the Federal and State Governments, occasioned by the suspension of specie payments by the banks.
Page 1771 - ... people. It was so impossible that such a state of things could long continue that the prospect of revulsion was present to the minds of considerate men before it actually came. None, however, had correctly anticipated its severity. A concurrence of circumstances inadequate of themselves to produce such widespread and calamitous embarrassments tended so greatly to aggravate them that they can not be overlooked in considering their history.
Page 1775 - During the long continuance of a national debt, and the intervening difficulties of a foreign war, the connection was continued from motives of convenience ; but these causes have long since passed away. We have no emergencies that make banks necessary to aid the wants of the Treasury, we have no load of national debt to provide for, and we have on actual deposit a large surplus. No public interest, therefore, now requires the renewal of a connection that circumstances have dissolved. The complete...
Page 1539 - ... be concerned in the purchase or disposal of any public securities of any State, or of the United States, or take or apply to his own use any emolument or gain for negotiating or transacting any business in the said department, other than what shall be allowed by law...
Page 1633 - Against the motion we urged, that it would be improper to deprive the Congress of that power ; that it would be a novelty unprecedented to establish a government which should not have such authority ; that it was impossible to look forward into futurity so far as to decide that events might...