The True American: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1839 ... and a Variety of Other Matter Useful and Entertaining, Volumen2I. S. Boyd, 1841 |
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... Congress , in the year 1841 , By JOSEPH COE , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New Hampshire . STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY MORRILL , SILSBY , & CO . CONCORD , N. H. PREFACE . E302 ./ сь V1Z THE present is a.
... Congress , in the year 1841 , By JOSEPH COE , In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of New Hampshire . STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY MORRILL , SILSBY , & CO . CONCORD , N. H. PREFACE . E302 ./ сь V1Z THE present is a.
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... Congress , and took a conspicuous part in its deliberations . In that body he was deservedly held in the highest estimation . Soon after its first session , Pa- trick Henry , being asked whom he thought the greatest man in Congress ...
... Congress , and took a conspicuous part in its deliberations . In that body he was deservedly held in the highest estimation . Soon after its first session , Pa- trick Henry , being asked whom he thought the greatest man in Congress ...
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... Congress , replied , " If you speak of eloquence , Mr. Rutledge , of South Carolina , is by far the greatest orator ; but , if you speak of solid information and sound judgment , Col. Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on ...
... Congress , replied , " If you speak of eloquence , Mr. Rutledge , of South Carolina , is by far the greatest orator ; but , if you speak of solid information and sound judgment , Col. Washington is unquestionably the greatest man on ...
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... 4th of December , 1782 , Wash- ington took an affectionate leave of his old companions in arms . Soon after , he presented himself before the American Congress , and surrendered his commission , concluding a 12 THE TRUE AMERICAN .
... 4th of December , 1782 , Wash- ington took an affectionate leave of his old companions in arms . Soon after , he presented himself before the American Congress , and surrendered his commission , concluding a 12 THE TRUE AMERICAN .
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... Congress , and surrendered his commission , concluding a brief address to the president on that occa- sion with the following remarkable words . " Having now finished the work assigned me , I retire from the great theatre of action ...
... Congress , and surrendered his commission , concluding a brief address to the president on that occa- sion with the following remarkable words . " Having now finished the work assigned me , I retire from the great theatre of action ...
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Página 291 - States respectively, or to the people," therefore also the same act of Congress passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and entitled " An act in addition to the act entitled an act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States...
Página 292 - ... thereby guarding in the same sentence, and under the same words, the freedom of religion, of speech, and of the press, insomuch, that whatever violates either, throws down the sanctuary which covers the others, and that libels, falsehoods, and defamation, equally with heresy and false religion, are withheld from the cognizance of federal tribunals.
Página 68 - ... impolitic ; for this might have a pernicious influence on future negotiations, or produce immediate inconveniences ; perhaps danger and mischief, in relation to other powers. The necessity of such caution and secrecy was one cogent reason for vesting the power of making treaties in the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate ; the principle on which that body was formed confining it to a small number of members.
Página 91 - Hidalgo, and the said article and the thirty-third article of the treaty of Amity, commerce, and navigation...
Página 73 - You will think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not, I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory.
Página 202 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Página 285 - That the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this state, against every aggression either foreign or domestic; and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.
Página 57 - ... charged with collecting and diffusing information, and enabled, by premiums and small pecuniary aids, to encourage and assist a spirit of discovery and improvement.
Página 287 - Acts exercises, in like manner, a power not delegated by the Constitution, but on the contrary, expressly and positively forbidden by one of the amendments thereto; a power which, more than any other, ought to produce universal alarm, because it is levelled against...
Página 72 - Soon after the Reformation, a few people came over into this New World, for conscience' sake. Perhaps this apparently trivial incident may transfer the great seat of empire into America. It looks likely to me...