Millard Fillmore: Constructive Statesman, Defender of the Constitution, President of the United StatesAndrus & Church, 1915 - 159 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Millard Fillmore: Constructive Statesman, Defender of the Constitution ... William Elliot Griffis Visualização integral - 1915 |
Millard Fillmore: Constructive Statesman, Defender of the Constitution ... William Elliot Griffis Visualização integral - 1915 |
Millard Fillmore: Constructive Statesman, Defender of the Constitution ... William Elliot Griffis Visualização integral - 1915 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
American anti-Masonic army Bill Britain British Buffalo Cabinet Calhoun California canal candidates Cayuga County CHAPTER chief Church citizens civil Committee Commodore Congress Constitution Convention Crittenden Cuba Daniel Webster declared Democrats dent Doctrine Dutch election Empire Erie County Europe February filibusters Fillmore's Fillmore's administration flag friends frontier Fugitive Slave Law Government Governor Henry Clay honor House humanity Islands Japan Japan Expedition Japanese Kossuth labor land later letter living Lopez March Mexico Millard Fillmore millions Monroe Doctrine Morse Moses Farmer native naval Navy nominated North northern once Pacific patriot peace Perry political President Fillmore President Taylor question republic Republicans Secretary Senate Seward ship Silas Wright slavery South Southern speech telegraph territory Texas thousand Thurlow Weed tion took treaty Union United Vice-President vote Washington Whig party words wrote Yankee York Zachary Taylor
Passagens conhecidas
Página 121 - Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...
Página 45 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the House shall, if appealed to, decide...
Página 54 - Congress to adopt such measures as in their discretion may seem proper, to perform with due solemnities the funeral obsequies of Zachary Taylor, late president of the United States ; and thereby to signify the great and affectionate regard of the American people for the memory of one whose life has been devoted to the public service ; whose career in arms has not been surpassed in usefulness or brilliancy ; who has been so recently raised by the unsolicited voice of the people to the highest civil...
Página 26 - ... miles back, and he showed me how it worked and explained how it would exceed all other telegraphs by transmitting in writing the message, and by recording it there though no one were there to receive it. A bill was reported, I think from the Committee on Commerce, granting the amount asked for; and when it came up for consideration in the House, it was attacked by argument and ridicule, and finally passed by a very small majority. Some thought it a foolish expenditure of money upon a chimerical...
Página 103 - I have directed Commodore Perry to assure your imperial majesty that I entertain the kindest feelings toward your majesty's person and government, and that I have no other object in sending him to Japan but to propose to your imperial majesty that the United States and Japan should live in friendship and have commercial intercourse with each other.
Página 128 - The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her — she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Página 45 - I have availed myself of the leisure afforded by the last recess to look into the history of this rule, that I might, if possible, gather from it the intent of the Senate in adopting it. I find that one of the first acts of this body, in 1789, was to appoint a committee to "prepare a system of rules for conducting business in the Senate.
Página 54 - To you, Senators and Representatives of a nation in tears, I can say nothing which can alleviate the sorrow with which you are oppressed. I appeal to you to aid me, under the trying circumstances which surround me, in the discharge of the duties from which, however much I may be oppressed by them, I dare not shrink; and I rely upon Him who holds in His hands the destinies of nations to endow me with the requisite strength for the task and to avert from our country the evils apprehended from the heavy...
Página 54 - WASHINGTON, July 10, 1850. Fellow—Citizens of the Senate and House of Representatives: A great man has fallen among us, and a whole country is called to an occasion of unexpected, deep, and general mourning. I recommend to the two Houses of Congress to adopt such measures as in their discretion may seem proper to perform with due solemnities the funeral obsequies of Zachary Taylor, late President of the United States, and thereby to signify the great and affectionate regard of the American people...
Página 43 - ... Administration which but yesterday wielded the destinies of this great nation, today quietly yields up its power, and, without a murmur, retires from the Capital. I congratulate you, Senators, and I congratulate my country upon these oft-recurring and cheering evidences of our capacity for self-government. Let us hope that the sublime spectacle we now witness may be repeated as often as the people shall desire a change of rulers, and that this venerated Constitution and this glorious Union may...