Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His LifeJ.F. Brown and W. White, 1837 - 429 pages |
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... doubt left the prison behind him , confirmed in his devotion to his country , and his hatred of its enemies . The death of his mother soon followed - his eldest brother had died some time before at the battle of Stono , and Andrew ...
... doubt left the prison behind him , confirmed in his devotion to his country , and his hatred of its enemies . The death of his mother soon followed - his eldest brother had died some time before at the battle of Stono , and Andrew ...
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... doubt to allow his proclamation time to work on the minds of the people , he made a furious attack upon fort Bowyer , a post of some importance , situated upon Mobile bay and commanding its entrance . The fort was garrisoned by a mere ...
... doubt to allow his proclamation time to work on the minds of the people , he made a furious attack upon fort Bowyer , a post of some importance , situated upon Mobile bay and commanding its entrance . The fort was garrisoned by a mere ...
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... doubt as to the quarter in which the attempt would be made . Louisiana in particular , which had been recently admitted to the Union , was almost entirely destitute of the means of defence . Accessible from the sea by numerous inlets ...
... doubt as to the quarter in which the attempt would be made . Louisiana in particular , which had been recently admitted to the Union , was almost entirely destitute of the means of defence . Accessible from the sea by numerous inlets ...
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... doubt , of compelling them to relinquish their strong holds , or surrender at discretion . After a short contest however , the enemy were again repulsed with consid- erable loss . Previous to this engagement , a rumor circulated through ...
... doubt , of compelling them to relinquish their strong holds , or surrender at discretion . After a short contest however , the enemy were again repulsed with consid- erable loss . Previous to this engagement , a rumor circulated through ...
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... doubt that it would retrieve the fortune of their arms , and place the whole valley of the Mississippi at their com- mand . Indeed one of the British Commissioners at Ghent is said to have indulged in the boast , that before the trea ...
... doubt that it would retrieve the fortune of their arms , and place the whole valley of the Mississippi at their com- mand . Indeed one of the British Commissioners at Ghent is said to have indulged in the boast , that before the trea ...
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Page 48 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Page 249 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish 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...
Page 167 - 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.
Page 422 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 220 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Page 194 - But reasoning on this subject is superfluous when our social compact, in express terms, declares that the laws of the United States, its Constitution, and treaties made under it are the supreme law of the land, and, for greater caution, adds "that the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 191 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Page 167 - Many of our rich men have not been content with equal protection and equal benefits ; but have besought us to make them richer by acts of Congress.
Page 48 - In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another. Offices were not established to give support to particular men at the public expense. No individual wrong is, therefore, done by removal, since neither appointment to nor continuance in office is matter of right.
Page 207 - Union by the secession of one of its members. When the first was proposed, it was known that it could not be listened to for a moment. It was known, if force was applied to oppose the execution of the laws that it must be repelled by force ; that Congress could not, without involving itself in disgrace and the country in ruin, accede to the proposition ; and yet if this is not done...