The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Volum 1D. Appleton, 1851 - 707 sider |
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... duties had been exacted by the custom - house there , not only upon the vessel in which he had taken his passage , which was owned in Virginia , but upon the passengers on board of her , all of whom were natives of Virginia . This ...
... duties had been exacted by the custom - house there , not only upon the vessel in which he had taken his passage , which was owned in Virginia , but upon the passengers on board of her , all of whom were natives of Virginia . This ...
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... duty , for the en- couragement of commerce ; but has any one step been taken to en- courage the agricultural States ? So far from it , that all that has been done operates against their interest : every duty we have laid will be heavily ...
... duty , for the en- couragement of commerce ; but has any one step been taken to en- courage the agricultural States ? So far from it , that all that has been done operates against their interest : every duty we have laid will be heavily ...
Side 42
... duty of the Secretary , " to digest and report plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and for the support of public credit . " Mr. Page moved to strike out these words , observing , that to permit the Secretary to go ...
... duty of the Secretary , " to digest and report plans for the improvement and management of the revenue and for the support of public credit . " Mr. Page moved to strike out these words , observing , that to permit the Secretary to go ...
Side 48
... duty to devise means to resuscitate the one , and to pay off the other . With no experience in his own country , it was natural he should look to the successful example of others . He is considered a wise statesman , who is guided by ...
... duty to devise means to resuscitate the one , and to pay off the other . With no experience in his own country , it was natural he should look to the successful example of others . He is considered a wise statesman , who is guided by ...
Side 49
... duty , but the capital to be viewed in the light of an annuity , at the rate of six per centum per annum , redeemable at the pleasure of the government . He also advised the incorporation of a National Bank , as an insti- tution of ...
... duty , but the capital to be viewed in the light of an annuity , at the rate of six per centum per annum , redeemable at the pleasure of the government . He also advised the incorporation of a National Bank , as an insti- tution of ...
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Side 142 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Side 37 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary.
Side 287 - An Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Side 198 - The constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Side 121 - States at any time during the continuance of this act, to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof, to depart out of the territory of the United States, within such time as shall be expressed in such order...
Side 56 - The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.
Side 31 - We have no detail of those great considerations which, in my opinion, ought to have abounded before we should recur to a government of this kind. Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain.
Side 55 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.