Life and timesBarnes & Burr, 1863 |
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الصفحة 27
... produced great and extensive distress . It was on the occasion of introducing a resolution in the senate to rebuke this extraordinary assumption of power , that Mr. Clay said : " We are in the midst of a REVOLUTION ! " Petitions from ...
... produced great and extensive distress . It was on the occasion of introducing a resolution in the senate to rebuke this extraordinary assumption of power , that Mr. Clay said : " We are in the midst of a REVOLUTION ! " Petitions from ...
الصفحة 30
... produced by the fault of the people ; if it proceeded from their wasteful extrava- gance , and their indulgence of a reckless spirit of ruinous specu- lation ; if public measures had no agency whatever in bringing it about ; it would ...
... produced by the fault of the people ; if it proceeded from their wasteful extrava- gance , and their indulgence of a reckless spirit of ruinous specu- lation ; if public measures had no agency whatever in bringing it about ; it would ...
الصفحة 31
... produced by bank and other facilities . this is a view of the case entirely too superficial . It would be quite as correct and just , in the instance of a homicide perpetrated by the discharge of a gun , to allege that the leaden ball ...
... produced by bank and other facilities . this is a view of the case entirely too superficial . It would be quite as correct and just , in the instance of a homicide perpetrated by the discharge of a gun , to allege that the leaden ball ...
الصفحة 34
... producing the misfortunes of the country . " But [ said Mr. Clay ] the cause of our present difficulties may be stated in another way . During the late administration [ Jack- son's ] we have been deprived of the practical benefit of a ...
... producing the misfortunes of the country . " But [ said Mr. Clay ] the cause of our present difficulties may be stated in another way . During the late administration [ Jack- son's ] we have been deprived of the practical benefit of a ...
الصفحة 54
... produced by labor , cost more than in Europe , and are consequently worth more . The value of every species of property is sustained by the operation of the same principle . It is not unnaturally high , but just where it ought to be ...
... produced by labor , cost more than in Europe , and are consequently worth more . The value of every species of property is sustained by the operation of the same principle . It is not unnaturally high , but just where it ought to be ...
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27th Congress administration agent agricultural amount Andrew Jackson annual authority balance of trade bank bill branch Britain British Buren capital and labor cause cent centum Clay's commercial committee compromise act Congress consequence considered constitution cotton currency debt deposites domestic duties effect election England establish executive existence exports fact favor feelings foreign free trade friends HENRY CLAY honor hundred important increase industry interests Jackson legislation less locum tenens manufactures measure ment millions of dollars nation necessary never object occasion operation opinion party patriotic political present president principle produce prosperity protective policy protective system purpose question raw material reason resolution respect result revenue secretary secure senate session South Carolina specie supply supposed Taney tariff of 1842 taxes things thousand tion treasury twenty-seventh Congress Union United veto vote wealth whig whig party whole
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 98 - ... the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the United States...
الصفحة 71 - By the Constitution of the United States the President is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers who act by his authority and in conformity with his orders.
الصفحة 71 - The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the president, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that...
الصفحة 72 - Treasury shall immediately lay before Congress, if in session, and if not, immediately after the commencement of the next session, the reasons of such order or direction.
الصفحة 118 - 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.
الصفحة 321 - Gee (Joshua) The Trade and Navigation of Great Britain Considered: Shewing, That the surest way for a Nation to increase in Riches, is to prevent the Importation of such Foreign Commodities as may be raised at Home.
الصفحة 252 - ... laid for the purpose of raising such revenue as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government...
الصفحة 19 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over congress than the opinion of congress has over the judges, and on that point the president is independent of both.
الصفحة 249 - 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...
الصفحة 292 - Government, without limitation or restriction, saving the very inconsiderable reservation relating to their inspection laws. This authority having thus entirely passed from the states, the right to exercise it for the purpose of protection does not exist in them ; and consequently if it be not possessed by the General Government, it must be extinct. Our political system would thus present the anomaly of a people, stripped of the right to foster their own industry, and to counteract the most selfish...