Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the ... Session of the ... Congress, Volume 1; Volume 12; Volume 64Gales & Seaton, 1836 |
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... PENNSYLVANIA - James Buchanan , Samuel McKean . DELAWARE - John M. Clayton , Arnold Naudain . MARYLAND - Robert H. Goldsborough , Joseph Kent . VIRGINIA - Benjamin Watkins Leigh , John Tyler . NORTH CAROLINA - Bedford Brown , Willie P ...
... PENNSYLVANIA - James Buchanan , Samuel McKean . DELAWARE - John M. Clayton , Arnold Naudain . MARYLAND - Robert H. Goldsborough , Joseph Kent . VIRGINIA - Benjamin Watkins Leigh , John Tyler . NORTH CAROLINA - Bedford Brown , Willie P ...
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... Pennsylvania line . This bound- ary , therefore , is based on the assumption that that east and west line will touch the territorial line ( which is the northern boundary line of the United States ) in Lake Erie , or north of it ...
... Pennsylvania line . This bound- ary , therefore , is based on the assumption that that east and west line will touch the territorial line ( which is the northern boundary line of the United States ) in Lake Erie , or north of it ...
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... Pennsylvania line . " And whereas the State of Ohio claims that the assent of the Congress of the Uni- ted States has been virtually and substantially given to the sixth section of the seventh article of the constitu- tion as above set ...
... Pennsylvania line . " And whereas the State of Ohio claims that the assent of the Congress of the Uni- ted States has been virtually and substantially given to the sixth section of the seventh article of the constitu- tion as above set ...
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... Pennsylvania $ 2,083,233 32 . The proportion of Indiana , including including the fifteen per cent . , will be $ 855,588 23 , of Ohio $ 1,677,110 84 , and of Mississippi $ 958,945 42. And the proportions of all the twenty - four States ...
... Pennsylvania $ 2,083,233 32 . The proportion of Indiana , including including the fifteen per cent . , will be $ 855,588 23 , of Ohio $ 1,677,110 84 , and of Mississippi $ 958,945 42. And the proportions of all the twenty - four States ...
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... Pennsylvania another , bolder in conception , and far more arduous in the execution . Virginia has a similar work in progress , worthy of all her enterprise and energy . A fourth , farther south , where the parts of the Union are too ...
... Pennsylvania another , bolder in conception , and far more arduous in the execution . Virginia has a similar work in progress , worthy of all her enterprise and energy . A fourth , farther south , where the parts of the Union are too ...
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Page 5 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government: provided, the constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...
Page 595 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Page 167 - The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President, with a view to its...
Page 17 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 391 - Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of converting a portion of the forts of the United States...
Page 507 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 501 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Page 501 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Page 245 - In our care, too, of the public contributions intrusted to our direction, it would be prudent to multiply barriers against their dissipation, by appropriating specific sums to every specific purpose susceptible of definition ; by disallowing all applications of money varying from the appropriation in object, or transcending it in amount...
Page 149 - An Act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government for the year 1835.