The Life and Speeches of Henry Clay, Volume 2Greeley & McElrath, 1843 - Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 |
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... give way with pleasure to these explanations , which I hope will always be made when I say any thing bearing on the individual opinions of the Chair . I know the delicacy of the position , and sympathise with the ' imcumbent , whoever ...
... give way with pleasure to these explanations , which I hope will always be made when I say any thing bearing on the individual opinions of the Chair . I know the delicacy of the position , and sympathise with the ' imcumbent , whoever ...
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... gives new powers of consumption , which are gratified by the purchase of foreign objects A poor nation can never be a great consuming nation . Its poverty will limit its consumption to bare subsistence . The erroneous principle which ...
... gives new powers of consumption , which are gratified by the purchase of foreign objects A poor nation can never be a great consuming nation . Its poverty will limit its consumption to bare subsistence . The erroneous principle which ...
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... gives to our whole country a most decided advantage over Great Britain . But a single experiment , stated by the gentleman from South Carolina , in wich a faithless slave put the torch to a manufacturing establishment , has discouraged ...
... gives to our whole country a most decided advantage over Great Britain . But a single experiment , stated by the gentleman from South Carolina , in wich a faithless slave put the torch to a manufacturing establishment , has discouraged ...
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... Give us bread ! give us treasury pap ! give us our reward ! " England's bard was mistaken ; ghosts will sometimes come , called or uncalled . Go to the families who were driven from the employments on which they were dependent for ...
... Give us bread ! give us treasury pap ! give us our reward ! " England's bard was mistaken ; ghosts will sometimes come , called or uncalled . Go to the families who were driven from the employments on which they were dependent for ...
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... give the name of the anthority , that it might appear whether it was not some other than a southern paper expressing southern sentiments . Mr. Clay stated that it was from the Charleston City Gazette , one , he believed , of the oldest ...
... give the name of the anthority , that it might appear whether it was not some other than a southern paper expressing southern sentiments . Mr. Clay stated that it was from the Charleston City Gazette , one , he believed , of the oldest ...
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Page 180 - ... any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States, or either house of the Congress of the United States...
Page 120 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said States...
Page 86 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 181 - 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 291 - 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 162 - Yes, I have ambition ; but it is the ambition of being the humble instrument, in the hands of Providence, to reconcile a divided people ; once more to revive concord and harmony in a distracted land ; the pleasing ambition of contemplating the glorious spectacle of a free, united, prosperous, and fraternal people ! 19.
Page 175 - But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that the individual who considers himself injured, has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy.
Page 85 - 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.
Page 29 - Six days shalt thou labour, and do all that thou hast to do; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it thou shalt do no manner of work ; thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, thy cattle, and the stranger that is within thy gates.
Page 180 - States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.