The Works of William H. Seward, Volum 1Redfield, 1853 |
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Side xxv
... secure even that end ; and none such can I or will I forego . Nor do I know any important or responsi- ble political body that proposes to do more than this . No free state claims to extend its legislation into a slave state . None ...
... secure even that end ; and none such can I or will I forego . Nor do I know any important or responsi- ble political body that proposes to do more than this . No free state claims to extend its legislation into a slave state . None ...
Side liv
... secure the enlargement of the Erie Canal , and the completion of the lateral canals , before the year 1845 . The report of Mr. Flagg , the comptroller , who retired on the coming in of the whig administration , presented an alarming pic ...
... secure the enlargement of the Erie Canal , and the completion of the lateral canals , before the year 1845 . The report of Mr. Flagg , the comptroller , who retired on the coming in of the whig administration , presented an alarming pic ...
Side lxvii
... secure Mr. Clay's nomination for the canvass of 1844. The policy was to foreclose the question by popular movements throughout the United States as early as the spring of 1842. Gov. Seward did not assent to the wisdom of the plan . He ...
... secure Mr. Clay's nomination for the canvass of 1844. The policy was to foreclose the question by popular movements throughout the United States as early as the spring of 1842. Gov. Seward did not assent to the wisdom of the plan . He ...
Side lxxxii
... by the barnburners against internal improvements . It might also secure the advantage of decentralizing the political power of the state , by dividing it into single senatorial and assembly lxxxii CONVENTION - NEW CONSTITUTION .
... by the barnburners against internal improvements . It might also secure the advantage of decentralizing the political power of the state , by dividing it into single senatorial and assembly lxxxii CONVENTION - NEW CONSTITUTION .
Side lxxxiv
... secure its defeat in the House . His efforts were successful ; the amendment was lost in the house , after a long and excited debate ; the senate receded from it , on the last night of the session . The sagacity of Gen. Taylor , on his ...
... secure its defeat in the House . His efforts were successful ; the amendment was lost in the house , after a long and excited debate ; the senate receded from it , on the last night of the session . The sagacity of Gen. Taylor , on his ...
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Side 374 - Britain take advantage of any intimacy, or use any alliance, connection or influence that either may possess with any State or Government through whose territory the said canal may pass, for the purpose of acquiring or holding, directly or indirectly, for the citizens or subjects of the one, any rights or advantages in regard to commerce or navigation through the said canal which shall not be offered on the same terms to the citizens or subjects of the other.
Side 131 - SECTION 1. A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature of this State to make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of public schools.
Side 494 - ... and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions, and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Side 393 - But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, but in his own country, and among his own kin, and in his own house.
Side 374 - ... with any State or People, for the purpose of erecting or maintaining any such fortifications, or of occupying, fortifying, or colonizing Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Mosquito coast, or any part of Central America, or of assuming or exercising dominion over the same...
Side 113 - The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted and its proceedings...
Side 63 - The North has only to will it to accomplish it; to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled; to cease the agitation of the slave question, and to provide for the insertion of a provision in the Constitution by an amendment which will restore to the South in substance the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections was...
Side 375 - VI. The contracting parties in this convention engage to invite every State with which both or either have friendly intercourse to enter into stipulations with them similar to those which they have entered into with each other...
Side 257 - In every regularly documented American merchant- vessel, the crew who navigate it will find their protection in the flag which is over them.
Side 375 - The governments of the United States and Great Britain having not only desired, in entering into this convention, to accomplish a particular object, but also to establish a general principle, they hereby agree to extend their protection, by treaty stipulations, to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the interoceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or...