Biography of Andrew Jackson: President of the United States, Formerly Major General in the Army of the United StatesClapp and Benton, 1832 - 422 páginas |
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... secured the opposite bank of the river , I now determined to take it by storm . The men by whom this was to be effected , had been wait- ing with impatience to receive the order , and hailed it with acclamation . The spirit which ...
... secured the opposite bank of the river , I now determined to take it by storm . The men by whom this was to be effected , had been wait- ing with impatience to receive the order , and hailed it with acclamation . The spirit which ...
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... secured to the government such privileges in their coun- try , as will hereafter place the frontiers out of danger from the Creeks . The speeches of the Indian Chiefs , which were elicited upon the occasion , are worthy of preservation ...
... secured to the government such privileges in their coun- try , as will hereafter place the frontiers out of danger from the Creeks . The speeches of the Indian Chiefs , which were elicited upon the occasion , are worthy of preservation ...
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... secured by the habeas corpus , and yet the judicial power sets this right at defi- ance , and punishes for contempt , without the intervention of a jury , upon the ground of legal necessity . In viola- tion of the same right , our ...
... secured by the habeas corpus , and yet the judicial power sets this right at defi- ance , and punishes for contempt , without the intervention of a jury , upon the ground of legal necessity . In viola- tion of the same right , our ...
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... secured to themselves , by their courage , the gratitude of their country ; who have been prodigal of blood in its defence , and who are strangers to any other fear than disgrace - to disaffection to our glo- rious cause . No , my ...
... secured to themselves , by their courage , the gratitude of their country ; who have been prodigal of blood in its defence , and who are strangers to any other fear than disgrace - to disaffection to our glo- rious cause . No , my ...
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... secured to America a proud name among the nations of the earth— a glory which will never perish . Possessing those dis- positions , which equally adorn the citizen and the sol- dier , the expectations of your country will be met in ...
... secured to America a proud name among the nations of the earth— a glory which will never perish . Possessing those dis- positions , which equally adorn the citizen and the sol- dier , the expectations of your country will be met in ...
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Página 372 - Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards and other needful buildings.
Página 201 - Indians with whom he may be at war at the time of such ratification, and forthwith to restore to such tribes or nations respectively all the possessions, rights, and privileges which they may have enjoyed or been entitled to in one thousand eight hundred and eleven, previous to such hostilities...
Página 296 - Considering standing armies as dangerous to free governments in time of peace, I shall not seek to enlarge our present establishment, nor disregard that salutary lesson of political experience which teaches that the military should be held subordinate to the civil power.
Página 311 - In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people, no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men, at the public expense. No individual wrong is therefore done by removal, since neither appointment to, nor continuance in, office is matter of right. The incumbent became an officer with a view to public benefits; and when these require his removal, they are not to be sacrificed to private...
Página 368 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Página 324 - Both the constitutionality and the expediency of the law creating this bank are well questioned by a large portion of our fellow citizens; and it must be admitted by all, that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency.
Página 321 - The constitution declares, that " no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state," without the consent of its legislature. If the general government is not permitted to tolerate the erection of a confederate state within the territory of one of the members of this Union, against her consent, much less could it allow a foreign and independent government to establish itself there.
Página 95 - I am in your power — do with me as you please. I am a soldier. I have done the white people all the harm I could ; I have fought them, and fought them bravely : If I had an army, I would yet fight and contend to the last ; but I have none : my people are all gone. I can now do no more than weep over the misfortunes of my nation.
Página 294 - In such measures as I may be called on to pursue, in regard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our Union ; taking care not to confound the power* they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the confederacy.
Página 96 - Once I could animate my warriors to battle; but I cannot animate the dead. My warriors can no longer hear my voice: their bones are at Talladega, Tallushatchee, Emuckfaw and Tohopeka.