Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Tyler: Embracing the Executive Proclamations, Recommendations, Protests, and Vetoes, from 1789 to 1842, Together with the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the U.S.E. Walker, 1842 - 754 pages |
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... called into the actual service of the United States . He may require the opinion , in writing , of the principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices . And he ...
... called into the actual service of the United States . He may require the opinion , in writing , of the principal officer in each of the executive departments upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices . And he ...
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... called for the appointment of consuls in foreign countries . It seems expedi- ent to regulate by law the exercise of that jurisdiction and those functions which are permitted them , either by express convention or by a friendly ...
... called for the appointment of consuls in foreign countries . It seems expedi- ent to regulate by law the exercise of that jurisdiction and those functions which are permitted them , either by express convention or by a friendly ...
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... called for by the events which have changed , and may be expected still farther to change , the relative situation of our frontiers . In this re- view , you will doubtless allow due weight to the considerations that the questions ...
... called for by the events which have changed , and may be expected still farther to change , the relative situation of our frontiers . In this re- view , you will doubtless allow due weight to the considerations that the questions ...
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... called forth . The acts of the last session which required special arrangement , have been , as far as circumstances would admit , carried into operation . Measures calculated to ensure a continuance of the friendship of the Indians and ...
... called forth . The acts of the last session which required special arrangement , have been , as far as circumstances would admit , carried into operation . Measures calculated to ensure a continuance of the friendship of the Indians and ...
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... called forth may be continued , if necessary , until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session ; Provided always , that whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the president to use the military ...
... called forth may be continued , if necessary , until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the ensuing session ; Provided always , that whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the president to use the military ...
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Page 55 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 482 - 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 ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the...
Page 85 - Still one thing more, fellow citizens- — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 54 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Page 50 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home. The West derives from the East supplies requisite to its growth and comfort, and what is perhaps of still greater consequence, it must of necessity owe the secure enjoyment of indispensable outlets for its own productions to the weight, influence,...
Page 51 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
Page 56 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world, — so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Page 53 - The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments, ancient and modern ; some of them in our country, and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them.
Page 266 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Page 48 - The period for a new election of a citizen to administer the Executive Government of the United States being- not far distant, and the time actually arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprize you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom...