SPEECH OF MR. NORVELL, OF MICHIGAN, OF THE BILL OF MR. CRITTENDEN TO PREVENT THE INTERFERENCE OF CERTIAN FEDERAL OFFICERS IN ELECTIONS |
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Nothing but gold and silver can be made a tender in payment of debts. Every
citizen may demand, of right, of his fellow-citizen, the payment of a debt in gold
and silver, to be received at its regulated value. This right all the courts, both
State ...
Nothing but gold and silver can be made a tender in payment of debts. Every
citizen may demand, of right, of his fellow-citizen, the payment of a debt in gold
and silver, to be received at its regulated value. This right all the courts, both
State ...
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... has not received one single dollar's benefit? But the committee (I now speak of
the committee raised by the Senate at the last Congress) ask, with an air of
triumph, “What court has ever ex'onerated the vendee of goods from payment of '
their ...
... has not received one single dollar's benefit? But the committee (I now speak of
the committee raised by the Senate at the last Congress) ask, with an air of
triumph, “What court has ever ex'onerated the vendee of goods from payment of '
their ...
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... confines the payment to American citizens. There is no justice in this. If the
Government is bound to pay, it is bound to pay all, and not a part. And what is
there to prevent them from enforcing payment: The bill provides for “the payment
to the ...
... confines the payment to American citizens. There is no justice in this. If the
Government is bound to pay, it is bound to pay all, and not a part. And what is
there to prevent them from enforcing payment: The bill provides for “the payment
to the ...
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Mr. BROWN. Yes! These very Native American commissioners of Spring Garden,
who have taken it upon themselves to instruct me, hold their seats by the
purchase of hundreds of Whig votes, and giving in payment hundreds of Native
votes to ...
Mr. BROWN. Yes! These very Native American commissioners of Spring Garden,
who have taken it upon themselves to instruct me, hold their seats by the
purchase of hundreds of Whig votes, and giving in payment hundreds of Native
votes to ...
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And had the President negotiated a treaty by which we were to receive the
promises of bankrupt Mexico in payment of the debts previously due, and the
expenses incurred in prosecuting the war, he would have been overwhelmed by
the ...
And had the President negotiated a treaty by which we were to receive the
promises of bankrupt Mexico in payment of the debts previously due, and the
expenses incurred in prosecuting the war, he would have been overwhelmed by
the ...
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ADDRESS OF CHARLES H. ALLEN TO THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF PORTO ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1900 |
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Էջ 16 - Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states, or territory, the person to whom such labor, or service, may be due, his agent, or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing, or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Էջ 16 - That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney, in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney, when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.
Էջ 16 - Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every state in the Union into which they might escape from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding states; and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their domestic...