The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor ...The author, 1893 - 474 pages |
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... vote in accordance with my own sentiments , and those whom I represent in favor of biennial sessions , but before doing that I wish to allude briefly to some objections to that measure . " The gentleman from Hamilton has argued this ...
... vote in accordance with my own sentiments , and those whom I represent in favor of biennial sessions , but before doing that I wish to allude briefly to some objections to that measure . " The gentleman from Hamilton has argued this ...
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... vote for it because cer- tainly to some extent it will impose a restraint upon hasty legislation . " In the debate on the subject of Corporations occurs an episode in one of Mr. Kirkwood's speeches worthy a place here . He said : " I ...
... vote for it because cer- tainly to some extent it will impose a restraint upon hasty legislation . " In the debate on the subject of Corporations occurs an episode in one of Mr. Kirkwood's speeches worthy a place here . He said : " I ...
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... vote for it . But we cannot get such a proposition through here . It is now well understood by this conven- tion that no hard money proposition can be engrafted in the constitu- tion , and we may just as well say it at one time as ...
... vote for it . But we cannot get such a proposition through here . It is now well understood by this conven- tion that no hard money proposition can be engrafted in the constitu- tion , and we may just as well say it at one time as ...
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... vote and raise my voice against the adjournment of this convention without some attempt to protect the people of Ohio from the system of bank plunder under which they have suffered so long and go grievously . " A statement was made and ...
... vote and raise my voice against the adjournment of this convention without some attempt to protect the people of Ohio from the system of bank plunder under which they have suffered so long and go grievously . " A statement was made and ...
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... Vote . The discovery of gold in California by Capt . Sutter in the year 1848 , in unusual and unheard of quantities , set the western world ablaze with excitement , and a general rush was made for the golden field thus opened , and the ...
... Vote . The discovery of gold in California by Capt . Sutter in the year 1848 , in unusual and unheard of quantities , set the western world ablaze with excitement , and a general rush was made for the golden field thus opened , and the ...
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Page 97 - Justice of the executive authority of any state or territory to which such person has fled, and produces a copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made, before a magistrate of any state or territory, charging the person demanded with having committed treason, felony, or other crime...
Page 360 - In such a case, it is peculiarly necessary to recur to safe and fundamental principles to sustain those principles, and, when sustained, to make them the tests of the arguments to be examined.
Page 48 - Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to use all...
Page 444 - He, that holds fast the golden mean, And lives contentedly between The little and the great, Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door, Imbittering all his state.
Page 360 - Powerful and ingenious minds, taking, as postulates, that the powers expressly granted to the government of the Union, are to be contracted by construction, into the narrowest possible compass, and that the original powers of the States are retained, if any possible construction will...
Page 203 - The property, real and personal, of all persons in the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against the United States, or who shall be directly proven to have taken an active part with their enemies in the field, is declared to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, if any they have, are hereby declared free men.
Page 360 - Union are to be contracted by construction into the narrowest possible compass, and that the original powers of the States are retained, if any possible construction will retain them, may, by a course of...
Page 274 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder...
Page 220 - Clark addressed the House as follows: " Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : — The hour has arrived at which it becomes my duty to call you to order.
Page 126 - Her territory of great extent and unsurpassed fertility, inviting and constantly receiving a desirable emigration, her population of near three quarters of a million of intelligent, industrious, energetic and liberty-loving people, her rapid past and prospective growth, her present financial condition, having a debt of only about one quarter of a million of dollars unite to make her bonds among the most desirable investments that our country affords.