Journal of a Residence and Tour in the United States of North America: From April, 1833, to October, 1834, Volume 1 |
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Page 380 - State," without the consent of its legislature. If the General Government is not permitted to tolerate the erection of a confederate State within the territory of one of the members of this Union, against her consent; much less could it allow a foreign and independent government to establish itself there.
Page 141 - Both the contracting parties promise, and engage formally, to give their special protection to the persons and property of the citizens of each other, of all occupations, who may be in the territories subject to the jurisdiction of the one or the other...
Page 372 - Because the peace of eleven States in this Union will not permit the fruits of a successful negro insurrection to be exhibited among them.
Page 30 - Experience in other States has proved, what has been abundantly confirmed by our own, that too large a sum of public money distributed among the Common Schools, has no salutary effect. Beyond a certain point, the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants decline in amount, with almost uniform regularity, as the contributions from a public fund increase.
Page v - ... purely elective. If we fail in this, our disaster will be signal, and will furnish an argument, stronger than has yet been found, in support of those opinions which maintain that government can rest safely on nothing but power and coercion. As far as experience may show errors in our establishments, we are bound to correct them; and if any practices exist...
Page 185 - Indian, half way between the two extremes, and perhaps the most agreeable to the eye and instinct of the majority of the human race. A colder climate, and a constant use of...
Page 348 - Compare the above, with the American institutions. Do they not institute laws to prohibit us from marrying among the whites? I would wish, candidly, however, before the Lord, to be understood, that I would not give a pinch of snuff to be married to any white person I ever saw in all the days of my life.
Page 381 - Let us declare through the public journals of our country, that the question of slavery is not, and shall not be open to discussion; —that the system is...
Page 207 - But it is evident that this power, to be useful, must be lodged in independent hands. If the Legislature may remove judges at pleasure, assigning no cause for such removal, of course it is not to be expected that they would often find decisions against the constitutionality of their own acts.
Page 380 - The court has bestowed its best attention on this question, and, after mature deliberation, the majority is of opinion that an Indian tribe or nation within the United States, is not a foreign State, in the sense of the constitution, and cannot maintain an action in the courts of the United States.