The Life and Speeches of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, Volume 2James B. Swain, 1843 - United States |
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... receive by the plantations , besides the mortgages on the planter's estates , and the high interest they pay us , which is very considerable ; and therefore very great care ought to be taken in regulating all the affairs of the ...
... receive by the plantations , besides the mortgages on the planter's estates , and the high interest they pay us , which is very considerable ; and therefore very great care ought to be taken in regulating all the affairs of the ...
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... received , will probably be the greatest in the whole term of eleven years . Now , if it be admitted that there is a less amount of the protected articles imported from Great Britain , she may be , and probably is , compensated for the ...
... received , will probably be the greatest in the whole term of eleven years . Now , if it be admitted that there is a less amount of the protected articles imported from Great Britain , she may be , and probably is , compensated for the ...
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... received , will ex- ceed fifty millions of dollars ! It is surprising how we have been able to sustain , for so long a time , a trade so very unequal . We must have been absolutely ruined by it , if the unfavorable balance had not been ...
... received , will ex- ceed fifty millions of dollars ! It is surprising how we have been able to sustain , for so long a time , a trade so very unequal . We must have been absolutely ruined by it , if the unfavorable balance had not been ...
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... receive the entire quantity of cotton which she now does , two or three hundred thousand bales of it were taken to ... received dur- ing the last year , near one hundred and ten thousand bales . The amount is annually increasing . The ...
... receive the entire quantity of cotton which she now does , two or three hundred thousand bales of it were taken to ... received dur- ing the last year , near one hundred and ten thousand bales . The amount is annually increasing . The ...
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... receives comparatively nothing . How would it be possible for the inhabitants of that largest portion of our territory , to supply themselves with cotton fabrics , if they were brought from England exclusively ? They could not do it ...
... receives comparatively nothing . How would it be possible for the inhabitants of that largest portion of our territory , to supply themselves with cotton fabrics , if they were brought from England exclusively ? They could not do it ...
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Page 305 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 194 - President, or to bring them, or either of them, into contempt or disrepute ; or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
Page 275 - States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...
Page 347 - Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow-citizens, and it must be admitted by all that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.
Page 195 - That if any person shall be prosecuted under this act, for the writing or publishing any libel aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Page 101 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over congress than the opinion of congress has over the judges, and on that point the president is independent of both.
Page 588 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; . . . But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
Page 213 - That a bank of the United States, competent to all the duties which may be required by the Government, might be so organized as not to infringe on our own delegated powers or the reserved rights of the States I do not entertain a doubt. Had the Executive been called upon to furnish the project of such an institution, the duty would have been cheerfully performed.
Page 280 - In the first place, he will be impeachable by this House, before the Senate for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high trust.
Page 100 - Suspicions are entertained and charges are made of gross abuse and violation of its charter. An investigation unwillingly conceded and so restricted in time as necessarily to make it incomplete and unsatisfactory discloses enough to excite suspicion and alarm.