Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His LifeJ.F. Brown and W. White, 1837 - 429 pages |
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... session . " On the first of January , the British made another at- tack on the American lines , supported by their heavy ar- tillery , but it ended like that which preceded it , in de- feat . * Sir Edward Packenham having discovered ...
... session . " On the first of January , the British made another at- tack on the American lines , supported by their heavy ar- tillery , but it ended like that which preceded it , in de- feat . * Sir Edward Packenham having discovered ...
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... session , justified his course in taking possession of the Spanish fortresses , and executing the British renegades . Soon after he made a tour of the northern cities , and was every where received with the most enthusiastic proofs of ...
... session , justified his course in taking possession of the Spanish fortresses , and executing the British renegades . Soon after he made a tour of the northern cities , and was every where received with the most enthusiastic proofs of ...
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... Session of Congress , numerous frauds on the Treasury have been discovered , which I thought it my duty to bring under the cognizance of the United States ' Court , for this district , by a criminal prosecution . It was my opinion , and ...
... Session of Congress , numerous frauds on the Treasury have been discovered , which I thought it my duty to bring under the cognizance of the United States ' Court , for this district , by a criminal prosecution . It was my opinion , and ...
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... session , I endeavored to exhibit briefly my views upon the important and highly interest- ing subject to which our attention is now to be directed . I was desirous of presenting to the Representatives of the several States in Congress ...
... session , I endeavored to exhibit briefly my views upon the important and highly interest- ing subject to which our attention is now to be directed . I was desirous of presenting to the Representatives of the several States in Congress ...
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... session , a copy of the instructions under which Mr. McLane has acted , together with the commu- nications which had at that time passed between him and the British Government , was laid before you . Although there has not been any ...
... session , a copy of the instructions under which Mr. McLane has acted , together with the commu- nications which had at that time passed between him and the British Government , was laid before you . Although there has not been any ...
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Page 157 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects entrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
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 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...
Page 198 - ... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrine would make it ' Did we pledge ourselves to...
Page 200 - Carry out the consequences of this right vested in the different states, and you must perceive that the crisis your conduct presents at this day would recur whenever any law of the United States displeased any of the states, and that we should soon cease to be a nation. The ordinance, with the same knowledge of the future that characterizes a former objection, tells you that the proceeds of the tax will be unconstitutionally applied. If this could be ascertained with certainty, the objection would,...