The Register of Pennsylvania: Devoted to the Preservation of Facts and Documents and Every Other Kind of Useful Information Respecting the State of Pennsylvania, Volum 3Samuel Hazard W.F. Geddes, 1829 |
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Side 20
... thence . Though our Payments at this Time are chiefly in Gold and Sil- ver , which for several Years have passed current among us at Eight Shillings and Six - pence per Ounce for Sil- ver , and Six Pounds Five Shillings per Ounce for ...
... thence . Though our Payments at this Time are chiefly in Gold and Sil- ver , which for several Years have passed current among us at Eight Shillings and Six - pence per Ounce for Sil- ver , and Six Pounds Five Shillings per Ounce for ...
Side 46
... thence along the line F , passing near the eastern shore of this river , affording means of direct intercourse throughout the western front of the city , Southwark , and part of the Northern Liberties , and giv- ing communication with ...
... thence along the line F , passing near the eastern shore of this river , affording means of direct intercourse throughout the western front of the city , Southwark , and part of the Northern Liberties , and giv- ing communication with ...
Side 57
... thence down this stream , to ascertain how far such a line might avoid the objections in those traced . The second line to the forks of Mahanoy diverges from the one above described at station No. 18 , imme- diately beyond the borough ...
... thence down this stream , to ascertain how far such a line might avoid the objections in those traced . The second line to the forks of Mahanoy diverges from the one above described at station No. 18 , imme- diately beyond the borough ...
Side 58
... thence across the gently sloping country which separates Wright's creek and Pine run , and crossing this stream was traced around the bluffs of the Lehigh , and up the valley of Bear creek to a point at which this last stream can be ...
... thence across the gently sloping country which separates Wright's creek and Pine run , and crossing this stream was traced around the bluffs of the Lehigh , and up the valley of Bear creek to a point at which this last stream can be ...
Side 61
... thence to Pittsburg , and down the Ohio to the different towns or cities . There is also considerable farming for a new settlement - the price of Iron here , is from six to seven cents per lb. We are not yet organi- zed for judicial ...
... thence to Pittsburg , and down the Ohio to the different towns or cities . There is also considerable farming for a new settlement - the price of Iron here , is from six to seven cents per lb. We are not yet organi- zed for judicial ...
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Side 166 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes, on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform; which will require, particularly, the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the Federal Government into conflict with the freedom of elections, and the counteraction of those causes which have disturbed the rightful course of appointment, and have placed, or continued power in, unfaithful or incompetent hands.
Side 166 - In administering the laws of Congress I shall keep steadily in view the limitations as well as the extent of the Executive power, trusting thereby to discharge the functions of my office without transcending its authority.
Side 166 - In such measures as I may be called on to pursue, in regard to the rights of the separate states, I hope to be animated by a proper respect for those sovereign members of our Union; taking care not to confound the powers they have reserved to themselves with those they have granted to the confederacy.
Side 166 - Partial injuries and occasional mortifications we may be subjected to ; but a million of armed freemen, possessed of the means of war, can never be conquered by a foreign foe. To any just system, therefore, calculated to strengthen this natural safeguard of the country, I shall cheerfully lend all the aid in my power.
Side 166 - As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will ; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending ; and so long as it is worth defending, a patriotic militia will cover it with an impenetrable agis.
Side 247 - British constitution, was the limitation of the king's prerogative by bounds so certain and notorious that it is impossible he should ever exceed them, without the consent of the people on the one hand ; or without, on the other, a violation of that original contract which, in all states impliedly, and in ours most expressly, subsists between the prince and the subject.
Side 231 - ... doing unto others as we would have others do unto us." A moderate degree of attention to this rule, would annihilate a great portion of the distress of hundreds of suffering females. One important means of mitigating the distress of this class, would be, to increase as far as possible the diversity of female employments, by which that competition which has produced the pernicious reduction of wages, would he diminished.
Side 166 - With regard to a proper selection of the subjects of impost, with a view to revenue, it would seem to me that the spirit of equity, caution, and compromise, in which the constitution was formed, requires that the great interests of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, should be equally...
Side 313 - He has nothing for it but to abdicate, and run from an evil which he can neither prevent nor mollify. The husband gone, the ceremony begins. The walls are...
Side 25 - Yes ! where is he, the Champion and the Child Of all that's great or little, wise or wild ? Whose game was empires and whose stakes were thrones ? Whose table, earth — whose dice were human bones ? Behold the grand result in yon lone isle, And, as thy nature urges, weep or smile.