The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1824 - United States |
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Page 1737
... cent . now pays from 42 to 70 cents per gallon , accord- ing to the proof ; and this is 2 or 300 per cent . upon its cost abroad . Under the existing law , spirits alone produce to our revenue more than two millions of dollars ; but a ...
... cent . now pays from 42 to 70 cents per gallon , accord- ing to the proof ; and this is 2 or 300 per cent . upon its cost abroad . Under the existing law , spirits alone produce to our revenue more than two millions of dollars ; but a ...
Page 1741
... cents was equal to seventy - three per cent ; what more was wanted for a protection ? Mr. BUCHANAN , of Pennsylvania , supported the amendment , as a measure proper in itself , and calculated to promote a spirit of mutual concilia- tion ...
... cents was equal to seventy - three per cent ; what more was wanted for a protection ? Mr. BUCHANAN , of Pennsylvania , supported the amendment , as a measure proper in itself , and calculated to promote a spirit of mutual concilia- tion ...
Page 1747
... cents , as the price at the place whence imported . Mr. McKiм opposed this alteration . He said , that no wool could be purchased so low as eight cents - and he read a statement of the prices at which the article had been imported . He ...
... cents , as the price at the place whence imported . Mr. McKiм opposed this alteration . He said , that no wool could be purchased so low as eight cents - and he read a statement of the prices at which the article had been imported . He ...
Page 1749
... cents . There is no wool raised here at less than twenty - five , and the most of it at forty cents . From whence are you to get two millions of pounds of this coarse wool ? It would require six hundred thousand sheep , and would take ...
... cents . There is no wool raised here at less than twenty - five , and the most of it at forty cents . From whence are you to get two millions of pounds of this coarse wool ? It would require six hundred thousand sheep , and would take ...
Page 1753
... cent . ad valorem " on oil cloth carpeting , and oil cloth of every description , " but , on an intimation from Mr. BRECK then moved to amend the following Mr. CAMBRELENG , that a specific duty would be clause : " On all manufactures ...
... cent . ad valorem " on oil cloth carpeting , and oil cloth of every description , " but , on an intimation from Mr. BRECK then moved to amend the following Mr. CAMBRELENG , that a specific duty would be clause : " On all manufactures ...
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Page 1895 - Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth...
Page 1865 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay, and Davis's Straits ; — whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 2189 - ... that comes from abroad, or is grown at home — taxes on the raw material — taxes on every fresh value that is added to...
Page 2189 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 2365 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 2145 - This idea of an extensive domestic market for the surplus produce of the soil, is of the first consequence. It is, of all things, that which most effectually conduces to a flourishing state of agriculture.
Page 1789 - No higher or other duties or charges shall be imposed in any of the Ports of the United States on British Vessels, than those payable in the same ports by Vessels of the United States...
Page 2205 - To expect, indeed, that the freedom of trade should ever be entirely restored in Great Britain, is as absurd as to expect that an Oceana or Utopia should ever be established in it.
Page 1865 - You surely thought those acquisitions of value, for they seemed even to excite your envy ; and yet the spirit, by which that enterprising employment has been exercised, ought rather, in my opinion, to have raised your esteem and admiration.
Page 2397 - To the House of Representatives of the United States: I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of...