Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ; Miscellaneous lettersLittle, Brown and Company, 1853 - United States |
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... called the Stoudinger and the Bellona , which were actually employed in run- ning between New York and Elizabethtown , in violation of the exclu- sive privilege conferred on the complainant , and praying an injunction to restrain the ...
... called the Stoudinger and the Bellona , which were actually employed in run- ning between New York and Elizabethtown , in violation of the exclu- sive privilege conferred on the complainant , and praying an injunction to restrain the ...
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... called an act of retortion against the illegal and oppressive legislation of New York ; and seems to be defended on those grounds of public law which justify reprisals between independent States . It will hardly be contended , that all ...
... called an act of retortion against the illegal and oppressive legislation of New York ; and seems to be defended on those grounds of public law which justify reprisals between independent States . It will hardly be contended , that all ...
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... called concurrent legislation ! What con- fusion such notions lead to is obvious enough . A power in the States to do any thing , and every thing , in regard to commerce , till Congress shall undo it , would suppose a state 12 THE CASE ...
... called concurrent legislation ! What con- fusion such notions lead to is obvious enough . A power in the States to do any thing , and every thing , in regard to commerce , till Congress shall undo it , would suppose a state 12 THE CASE ...
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... called commercial regulations ( which they are not ) , that other regulations , more directly and strictly commer- cial , are not solely within the power of Congress . There is a singular fallacy , as I venture to think , in the ...
... called commercial regulations ( which they are not ) , that other regulations , more directly and strictly commer- cial , are not solely within the power of Congress . There is a singular fallacy , as I venture to think , in the ...
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... called the waters of New York are , for purposes of navigation and commercial regulation , the waters of the United States . There is no cession , indeed , of the waters themselves , but their use for those purposes seems to be ...
... called the waters of New York are , for purposes of navigation and commercial regulation , the waters of the United States . There is no cession , indeed , of the waters themselves , but their use for those purposes seems to be ...
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Page 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 548 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it, accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest,...
Page 588 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 111 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Page 365 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Page 151 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 364 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 477 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...