Chicago River-and-harbor Convention: An Account of Its Origin and Proceedings

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Fergus printing Company, 1882 - 208 sider
 

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Side 81 - It was adopted, as declared in its preamble, " to form a more perfect Union, to establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, to promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty to the people who ordained it, and their posterity.
Side 82 - To erect a bank, and to regulate commerce, are very different acts. He who erects a bank, creates a subject of commerce in its bills ; so does he who makes a bushel of. wheat, or digs a dollar out of the mines ; yet neither of these persons regulates commerce thereby.
Side 86 - ... time, is involved the expediency of embarking in a system of internal improvement without a previous amendment of the Constitution explaining and defining the precise powers of the Federal Government over it. Assuming the right to appropriate money to aid in the construction of national works to be warranted by the cotemporaneous and continued exposition of the Constitution, its insufficiency for the successful prosecution of them must be admitted by all candid minds.
Side 126 - For although it is the duty of all to look to that sacred instrument instead of the statute book ; to repudiate at all times encroachments upon its spirit, which are too apt to be effected by the conjuncture of peculiar and facilitating circumstances ; it is not less true that the public good and the nature of our political institutions require that individual differences should yield to a well-settled acquiescence of the people and confederated authorities in particular constructions of the constitution...
Side 125 - The practice of defraying out of the Treasury of the United States the expenses incurred by the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers within the bays, inlets...
Side 129 - That the District Courts of the United States shall have, possess, and exercise the same jurisdiction in matters of contract and tort, arising in, upon, or concerning steamboats and other vessels of twenty tons burden and upwards, enrolled and licensed for the coasting trade...
Side 16 - If no measures for protection and improvement of anything North or West are to be suffered by our Southern masters, if we are to be down-trodden and all our cherished interests crushed by them, a signal revolution will inevitably ensue.
Side 126 - ... acquiescence of the people and confederated authorities in particular constructions of the Constitution on doubtful points. Not to concede this much to the spirit of our institutions would impair their stability and defeat the objects of the Constitution itself.
Side 73 - I declined his invitation has only tended to confirm the conclusion pronounced to him. Were it possible for me to attend the proposed convention, without an unreasonable sacrifice, I should most gladly do so, as my location gives me a strong feeling in reference to the prosperity and safety of the commerce of the lakes. The subject of the improvement of the lake harbors is one which my service in Congress has rendered somewhat familiar to me in a legislative aspect, while my personal travel upon...
Side 83 - 7. That 'foreign commerce' itself is dependent upon internal trade, for the distribution of its freights, and for the means of paying for them ; so that whatever improves the one, advances the other ; and they are so inseparable, that they should be regarded as one. That an export from the American shore to a British port in Canada, is as much foreign commerce as if it had been carried directly to Liverpool ; and that an exportation to Liverpool neither gains nor loses any of the characteristics...

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