The Republic, Or, A History of the United States of America in the Administrations: From the Monarchic Colonial Days to the Present Times, Volume 7Fairbanks and Palmer Publishing Company, 1887 - Presidents |
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... VETO - FINAL TRIUMPHS CHAPTER XXXVI . END OF GENERAL JACKSON'S ADMINISTRATION - FAREWELL ADDRESS - IMITATES WASHINGTON - RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE 723 765 799 CHAPTER XXXVII . THE LITTLE CHURCH AT THE HERMITAGE THE CONTENTS . 13.
... VETO - FINAL TRIUMPHS CHAPTER XXXVI . END OF GENERAL JACKSON'S ADMINISTRATION - FAREWELL ADDRESS - IMITATES WASHINGTON - RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE 723 765 799 CHAPTER XXXVII . THE LITTLE CHURCH AT THE HERMITAGE THE CONTENTS . 13.
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... HERMITAGE THE END- LAST WORDS - DEATH - THE GRAVE OF GENERAL JACKSON CHAPTER XXXVIII . ANDREW JACKSON , THE MAN - HIS CHARACTER AND SERV- ICES PAGE . 821 834 CHAPTER XXXIX . RACHEL JACKSON - THE HERMITAGE -- THE WHITE HOUSE— GRAVES OF ...
... HERMITAGE THE END- LAST WORDS - DEATH - THE GRAVE OF GENERAL JACKSON CHAPTER XXXVIII . ANDREW JACKSON , THE MAN - HIS CHARACTER AND SERV- ICES PAGE . 821 834 CHAPTER XXXIX . RACHEL JACKSON - THE HERMITAGE -- THE WHITE HOUSE— GRAVES OF ...
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... HERMITAGE . Jan'ry 15th , 1845 " MY DEAR SIR : Your confidential letter of the 5th instant is received , and reaches me almost prostrate , so that I have scarcely strength to wield my pen . " I sincerely thank you for the date of Mr ...
... HERMITAGE . Jan'ry 15th , 1845 " MY DEAR SIR : Your confidential letter of the 5th instant is received , and reaches me almost prostrate , so that I have scarcely strength to wield my pen . " I sincerely thank you for the date of Mr ...
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... Hermitage . " While in the Senate he had sold some lands to David Allison , of Philadelphia , and with the notes he bought a large stock of dry - goods suited to his market . He followed this to Nashville , and established a trading ...
... Hermitage . " While in the Senate he had sold some lands to David Allison , of Philadelphia , and with the notes he bought a large stock of dry - goods suited to his market . He followed this to Nashville , and established a trading ...
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... HERMITAGE , January 7 , 1806 . " THOMAS SWANN , ESQ . , - Sir , late last evening was handed me , among my returns from Haysborough , a letter from you , of the 3d inst . , stating information from Dickinson , etc. , etc. , etc. Was it ...
... HERMITAGE , January 7 , 1806 . " THOMAS SWANN , ESQ . , - Sir , late last evening was handed me , among my returns from Haysborough , a letter from you , of the 3d inst . , stating information from Dickinson , etc. , etc. , etc. Was it ...
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Page 582 - Congress, imposing duties, shall any appeal be taken or allowed to the Supreme Court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose; and...
Page 582 - States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void, and no law," nor binding on the citizens of that state or its officers: and by the said ordinance it is further declared to be unlawful for any of the constituted authorities of the state, or of the United States, to enforce the payment of the duties imposed by the said acts...
Page 586 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain, if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed, and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects, that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest, is, " to form a more perfect Union.
Page 598 - Eloquent appeals to your passions, to your state pride, to your native courage, to your sense of real injury...
Page 582 - Carolina have passed an ordinance by which they declare "that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities, and now having actual operation and effect within the United States, and more especially...
Page 625 - And, independent of that, as myself an affectionate child of our Alma Mater, I would not be present to witness her disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors upon a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.
Page 600 - Spreading the lights of religion, morality, and general information into every cottage in this wide extent of our Territories and States. Behold it as the asylum where the wretched and the oppressed find a refuge and support. Look on this picture of happiness and honor and say, We too are citizens of America.
Page 600 - And then add, if you can, without horror and remorse, This happy Union we will dissolve, this picture of peace and prosperity we will deface, this free intercourse we will interrupt, these fertile fields we will deluge with blood, the protection of that glorious flag we renounce, the very name of Americans we discard.
Page 458 - The Union : Next to our Liberty the most dear : may we all remember that it can only be preserved by respecting the rights of the States, and distributing equally the benefit and burden of the Union.
Page 675 - 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.