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... present system now begins to develop itself . We see what a complication of private and pecuniary in- terests have thus wound themselves around our finances . While the present state of things continues , or as it goes on , there will ...
... present system now begins to develop itself . We see what a complication of private and pecuniary in- terests have thus wound themselves around our finances . While the present state of things continues , or as it goes on , there will ...
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... present condition of our finances and currency , and say that this want of credit and confidence which is so general , and which , it is possible , may , ere long , overspread the land with bankruptcies and distress , has not flowed ...
... present condition of our finances and currency , and say that this want of credit and confidence which is so general , and which , it is possible , may , ere long , overspread the land with bankruptcies and distress , has not flowed ...
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... present augmentation . What , Sir , are the evils which are distracting our financial opera- tions ? They are obviously two . The public money was not safe ; it was protected by no law . The treasury was overflowing . There was more ...
... present augmentation . What , Sir , are the evils which are distracting our financial opera- tions ? They are obviously two . The public money was not safe ; it was protected by no law . The treasury was overflowing . There was more ...
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... present their number , especially in the large cities , is too small . They have too large sums in deposit , in pro- portion to their capital and their legal limits of discount . By this means the public money is locked up . It is ...
... present their number , especially in the large cities , is too small . They have too large sums in deposit , in pro- portion to their capital and their legal limits of discount . By this means the public money is locked up . It is ...
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... present embar- rassment . Still , Sir , I am bound to say that the present system , in my opinion , can never be perfect . It can never be the best system . It can never be a safe regulator of the currency of the country , nor furnish ...
... present embar- rassment . Still , Sir , I am bound to say that the present system , in my opinion , can never be perfect . It can never be the best system . It can never be a safe regulator of the currency of the country , nor furnish ...
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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...