Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: Dec. 7, 1846-Sept. 30, 1850D. Appleton, 1861 |
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... duty . Texas was fully which existed long before the annexation of Texas absolved from all allegiance to the central Govern- to the American Union ; and yet , animated by the ment of Mexico from the moment that Government love of peace ...
... duty . Texas was fully which existed long before the annexation of Texas absolved from all allegiance to the central Govern- to the American Union ; and yet , animated by the ment of Mexico from the moment that Government love of peace ...
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... duty it is to see that the laws be faithfully executed , if in the face of all these proceedings , both of the Congress of Texas and of the United States , he had assumed the responsibility of yielding up the territory west of the ...
... duty it is to see that the laws be faithfully executed , if in the face of all these proceedings , both of the Congress of Texas and of the United States , he had assumed the responsibility of yielding up the territory west of the ...
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... duty of the con- queror to secure his conquest , and to provide for the maintenance of civil order and the rights of the inhabitants . This right has been exercised , and this duty performed , by our military and naval commanders , by ...
... duty of the con- queror to secure his conquest , and to provide for the maintenance of civil order and the rights of the inhabitants . This right has been exercised , and this duty performed , by our military and naval commanders , by ...
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... duty which all public functionaries of the Government owe to the people . This duty be- comes the more imperative in a period of war , when large and extraordinary expenditures become una- voidable . During the existence of the war with ...
... duty which all public functionaries of the Government owe to the people . This duty be- comes the more imperative in a period of war , when large and extraordinary expenditures become una- voidable . During the existence of the war with ...
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... duty as those established by the existing sure of circumstances at home , to abandon a policy law , the system will probably be permanent ; and which has been upheld for ages , and to open her capitalists , who have made , or shall ...
... duty as those established by the existing sure of circumstances at home , to abandon a policy law , the system will probably be permanent ; and which has been upheld for ages , and to open her capitalists , who have made , or shall ...
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Página 256 - ... employed to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed, it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 256 - The unity of government, which constitutes you one people, is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Página 256 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Página 133 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Página 103 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 133 - ... 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...
Página 133 - 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,...
Página 103 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Página 430 - Secession ! Peaceable secession ! Sir, your eyes and mine are never destined to see that miracle. The dismemberment of this vast country without convulsion ! The breaking up of the fountains of the great deep without ruffling the surface...
Página 302 - The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted, at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...