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... paper bank - a mere machine for fabricating irredeemable paper . It was a new form for paper money ; and , instead of benefiting the country , I thought it would plunge it deeper and deeper in difficulty . I made a speech on the subject ...
... paper bank - a mere machine for fabricating irredeemable paper . It was a new form for paper money ; and , instead of benefiting the country , I thought it would plunge it deeper and deeper in difficulty . I made a speech on the subject ...
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... paper as a substitute for coin , and Congress is not supposed to be able to regulate , control , or redeem it . We have the sole power over the currency ; but we possess no means of exercising that power . Congress can create no bank ...
... paper as a substitute for coin , and Congress is not supposed to be able to regulate , control , or redeem it . We have the sole power over the currency ; but we possess no means of exercising that power . Congress can create no bank ...
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... paper circulation among the causes tending to produce heavy purchases ; and the amount of foreign capital that has found its way , through one chan- nel or another , into the country , and is giving an additional stimu- lus , and ...
... paper circulation among the causes tending to produce heavy purchases ; and the amount of foreign capital that has found its way , through one chan- nel or another , into the country , and is giving an additional stimu- lus , and ...
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... paper money . " This is the catalogue of evils to be cured by this order . In what these frauds consist , what are the monopolies complained of , or what is precisely intended by these injurious speculations , we are not informed . All ...
... paper money . " This is the catalogue of evils to be cured by this order . In what these frauds consist , what are the monopolies complained of , or what is precisely intended by these injurious speculations , we are not informed . All ...
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... paper money . " Now , this is the very language of the gentleman from Missouri . He habitually speaks of the notes of all banks , however solvent , and however promptly their notes may be redeemed in gold and silver , as " paper money ...
... paper money . " Now , this is the very language of the gentleman from Missouri . He habitually speaks of the notes of all banks , however solvent , and however promptly their notes may be redeemed in gold and silver , as " paper money ...
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Página 382 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Página 482 - Union; but for the interests of the community at large, as well as for the purposes of the Treasury, it is essential that the nation should possess a currency of equal value, credit, and use wherever it may circulate. The Constitution has intrusted Congress exclusively with the power of creating and regulating a currency of that description...
Página 352 - Let us, then, bind the republic together with a perfect system of roads and canals.
Página 143 - We have slavery already amongst us. The Constitution found it in the Union ; it recognized it, and gave it solemn guaranties. To the full extent of these guaranties we are all bound, in honor, in justice, and by the Constitution. All the stipulations contained in the Constitution in favor of the slave-holding States which are already in the Union ought to be fulfilled, and, so far as depends on me, shall be fulfilled, in the fulness of their spirit and to the exactness of their letter.
Página 40 - California, and of the 12th section of the Act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled An Act making appropriations for the Civil and Diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three and for other purposes...
Página 101 - Secretary's order, there is not a word in it having any such tendency ; not a syllable which has any application to the matter. That section simply declares, that after the first day of July, in that year, every purchaser of land at public sale shall, on the day of purchase, make a complete payment therefor; and the purchaser at private sale shall produce a receipt for the amount of the purchase money on any tract, before he shall enter the same at the land office.
Página 443 - Congress shall have power * * * to establish * * * uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
Página 250 - December, 1837, shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of an act entitled ' An Act to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands...
Página 235 - to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district, not exceeding ten miles square, as may by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Página 336 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...