Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 78-79William Cobbett William Cobbett, 1832 - Great Britain |
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... leave ing on matters of life and death ) were " this town without favouring us with in the hands of a madman : black in " one lecture more ; and it is their wish the face as the coals that come out of " that the subject be the Paper ...
... leave ing on matters of life and death ) were " this town without favouring us with in the hands of a madman : black in " one lecture more ; and it is their wish the face as the coals that come out of " that the subject be the Paper ...
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... leave open every source of their property being blown into air , and corruption as before , and working men the Exchequer mop sucking it all up , would not be benefited . ( Hear , hear . ) ( laughter , ) and then they stepped forward ...
... leave open every source of their property being blown into air , and corruption as before , and working men the Exchequer mop sucking it all up , would not be benefited . ( Hear , hear . ) ( laughter , ) and then they stepped forward ...
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... leave of him encouraged by the works of the curate and of Mrs. ARMSTRONG . I then return- of Crowhurst , and by the bloody , bloody ed to Mrs. MACKENZIE's , which had old Times , whose former editor and been my head quarters , and at ...
... leave of him encouraged by the works of the curate and of Mrs. ARMSTRONG . I then return- of Crowhurst , and by the bloody , bloody ed to Mrs. MACKENZIE's , which had old Times , whose former editor and been my head quarters , and at ...
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... leave of Mrs. MACKENZIE , his tail and his buttocks . Besides the and her obliging and excellent family , indescribable pleasure of having seen my feelings , in spite of the credit which NEWCASTLE , the SHIELDSES , SUNDER the most ...
... leave of Mrs. MACKENZIE , his tail and his buttocks . Besides the and her obliging and excellent family , indescribable pleasure of having seen my feelings , in spite of the credit which NEWCASTLE , the SHIELDSES , SUNDER the most ...
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... leave anything to conjecture , when we have the unde- niable proof before us , in the accounts , laid before Parliament , of the amount of the poor - rates , at two different periods , and , of course , at two different stages in our ...
... leave anything to conjecture , when we have the unde- niable proof before us , in the accounts , laid before Parliament , of the amount of the poor - rates , at two different periods , and , of course , at two different stages in our ...
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Page 231 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FORMED.
Page 311 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals...
Page 565 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the crown, shall be capable of serving as a member of the house of commons.
Page 303 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 243 - I adjure you, as you honor their memory, as you love the cause of freedom, to which they dedicated their lives, as you prize the peace of your country, the lives of its best citizens, and your own fair fame, to retrace your steps. Snatch from the archives of your State the disorganizing edict...
Page 235 - On such expositions and reasonings the ordinance grounds not only an assertion of the right to annul the laws of which it complains, but to enforce it by a threat of seceding from the Union if any attempt is made to execute them. This right to secede is deduced from the nature of the Constitution, which...
Page 241 - The laws of the United States must be executed. I have no discretionary power on the subject — my duty is emphatically pronounced in the constitution. Those who told you that you might peaceably prevent their execution, deceived you — they could not have been deceived themselves. They know that a forcible opposition could alone prevent the execution of the laws, and they know that such opposition must be repelled. Their object is disunion; but be not deceived by names; disunion, by armed force,...
Page 239 - State might have proposed the call for a general convention to the other States; and Congress, if a sufficient number of them concurred, must have called it. But the first magistrate of South Carolina, when he expressed a hope that, " on a review by Congress and the functionaries of the general government of the merits of the controversy...
Page 137 - Queen there inhabiting and being, and to the evil example of all others in like case offending, and against the form of the statutes in such case made and provided, and against the peace of our Lady the Queen, her Crown and dignity.
Page 243 - On your undivided support of your Government depends the decision of the great question it involves — whether your sacred Union will be preserved and the blessing it secures to us as one people shall be perpetuated. No one can doubt that the unanimity with which that decision will be expressed will be such as to inspire new confidence in republican institutions...