General Jackson

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D. Appleton, 1892 - 332 páginas

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Página 291 - The Charter of the Bank of The United States expires in 1836, and its Stockholders will most probably apply for a renewal of their privileges. In order to avoid the evils resulting from precipitancy in a measure involving such important principles, and such deep pecuniary interests, I feel that I cannot, in justice to the Parties interested, too soon present it to the deliberate consideration of the Legislature and the People.
Página 282 - To-day we have had the inauguration. A monstrous crowd of people is in the city. I never saw anything like it before. Persons have come five hundred miles to see General Jackson, and they really seem to think that the country is rescued from some frightful danger.
Página 304 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Página 304 - Fellow-citizens of my native State !—let me not only admonish you, as the first magistrate of our common country, not to incur the penalty of its laws, but use the influence that a father would over his children whom he saw rushing to a certain ruin.
Página 321 - My dear children, and friends, and servants, I hope and trust to meet you all in heaven, both white and black.
Página 300 - An act to alter and amend the several acts imposing duties on imports," approved on the fourteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State, its officers or citizens...
Página 314 - My own race is nearly run; advanced age and failing health warn me that before long I must pass beyond the reach of human events and cease to feel the vicissitudes of human affairs.
Página 245 - There is no danger here ; there shall be none — the same arm that protected from outrage this city, against the invaders of the country, will shield and protect this court, or perish in the effort.
Página 45 - For a week I have been lounging at the house of General Jackson, once a lawyer, after a judge, now a planter ; a man of intelligence, and one of those prompt, frank, ardent souls whom I love to meet.
Página 304 - This last position has not been, and cannot be, denied. How, then, can that State be said to be sovereign and independent whose citizens owe obedience to laws not made by it, and whose magistrates are sworn to disregard those laws when they come in conflict with those passed by another? What shows conclusively that the...

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