Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ; Miscellaneous lettersLittle, Brown and Company, 1853 - United States |
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... proceeding to New York , when she was stopped by the injunction of the Chancellor , on the application of the New York grantees . There can be no doubt that here is a collision , in fact ; that which the appellant claimed as a right ...
... proceeding to New York , when she was stopped by the injunction of the Chancellor , on the application of the New York grantees . There can be no doubt that here is a collision , in fact ; that which the appellant claimed as a right ...
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... proceedings , and therefore should be consid- ered as standing by itself ; but the other parts of the prohibi- tion are connected by the subject - matter , and ought , therefore , to be construed together . Taking the words thus ...
... proceedings , and therefore should be consid- ered as standing by itself ; but the other parts of the prohibi- tion are connected by the subject - matter , and ought , therefore , to be construed together . Taking the words thus ...
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... proceedings may be more regular , and the acts of the association more methodi- cal , what would be the difference , in the eye of reason , between the acts of the members of such a corporation , and the acts of the same individuals ...
... proceedings may be more regular , and the acts of the association more methodi- cal , what would be the difference , in the eye of reason , between the acts of the members of such a corporation , and the acts of the same individuals ...
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... proceedings of a meeting held in reference to your argument in the Supreme Court of the case arising out of the late Mr. Girard's will . In communicating to you the request contained in the second resolution , we take leave to express ...
... proceedings of a meeting held in reference to your argument in the Supreme Court of the case arising out of the late Mr. Girard's will . In communicating to you the request contained in the second resolution , we take leave to express ...
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... proceedings , there can no more be charity , true charity , found to exist , than evil can spring out of the Bible , error out of truth , or hatred and animosity come forth from the bosom of perfect love AND THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF ...
... proceedings , there can no more be charity , true charity , found to exist , than evil can spring out of the Bible , error out of truth , or hatred and animosity come forth from the bosom of perfect love AND THE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION OF ...
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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...