Life of Andrew Jackson, Volume 3Mason brothers, 1860 Copy held by Manuscripts Div. (John J. Dargan papers) includes Vol. II and III only; includes annotations and notes on endpapers indexing topics of interest to J.J. Dargan. |
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Adams administration affairs Amos Kendall Andrew Jackson appointed asked bank believe Benton Berrien Biddle bill Buren cabinet Calhoun Cambreleng Campbell candidate character charge Clay Colonel conduct confidence Congress conversation course Crawford declared desire dollars Duff Green duties Edward Livingston election favor feelings friends General's gentleman give Governor hand Henry Clay honor House Houston informed Ingham Isaac Hill Jeremiah Mason JOHN BRANCH John Quincy Adams lady legislature letter Major Donelson Major Eaton Major Lewis ment morning Nashville never Nicholas Biddle nomination nullification object opinion paper party patriotic political politicians present President President's received remarked removal replied resignation Secretary Secretary of War Senate session slander soon South Carolina Stanberry supposed tariff Tennessee thing thought Timberlake tion told Treasury Union United veto Vice-President vote Washington Webster wife wishes wrote York
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Página 353 - ... 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...
Página 387 - ... every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government.
Página 387 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Página 252 - 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 386 - 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.
Página 152 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform, which will require particularly the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the federal government into conflict with the freedom of elections...
Página 66 - While foreign nations, less blessed with that freedom which is power than ourselves, are advancing with gigantic strides in the career of public improvement, were we to slumber in indolence, or fold up our arms and proclaim to the world that we are palsied by the will of our constituents...
Página 386 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 151 - With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of impost, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the constitution was formed, requires that the great interests of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, should be equally favored, and that perhaps the only exception to this rule should consist in the peculiar encouragement of any products of either of them that may be found essential to our national independence.
Página 456 - That the constitution of the United States is not a league, confederacy, or compact between the people of the several states in their sovereign capacities ; but a government proper, founded on the adoption of the people, and creating direct relations between itself and individuals.