Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 3Perkins & Marvin, 1843 |
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... gold and silver , to denominate such bank notes " paper money , " since they regard them but as paper intruders into channels which should flow only with gold and silver . If this language of the order is authentic , and is to be so ...
... gold and silver , to denominate such bank notes " paper money , " since they regard them but as paper intruders into channels which should flow only with gold and silver . If this language of the order is authentic , and is to be so ...
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... gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and , although no such express probibition is applied to Congress , yet , as Congress has no power granted to it , in this respect , but to coin money , and to regulate the value of foreign ...
... gold and silver a tender in payment of debts ; and , although no such express probibition is applied to Congress , yet , as Congress has no power granted to it , in this respect , but to coin money , and to regulate the value of foreign ...
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... gold and silver . As early as seventeen hundred and ninety- seven , the public stocks of the Government were made receivable for lands sold ; the six per cents . at par , and other descriptions of stock in proportion . This policy had ...
... gold and silver . As early as seventeen hundred and ninety- seven , the public stocks of the Government were made receivable for lands sold ; the six per cents . at par , and other descriptions of stock in proportion . This policy had ...
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... gold and silver , is an indulgence , since the act places all on the same ground . The honorable member from Missouri has , indeed , himself fur- nished a complete answer to the Secretary's idea ; that is to say , he defends the order ...
... gold and silver , is an indulgence , since the act places all on the same ground . The honorable member from Missouri has , indeed , himself fur- nished a complete answer to the Secretary's idea ; that is to say , he defends the order ...
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... gold and silver , and , in the proper cases , Virginia land scrip . ' Gold and silver , then , and , in the proper cases , Virginia land scrip , are , in the opinion of the Secretary , all that is directed to be received by the existing ...
... gold and silver , and , in the proper cases , Virginia land scrip . ' Gold and silver , then , and , in the proper cases , Virginia land scrip , are , in the opinion of the Secretary , all that is directed to be received by the existing ...
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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...