A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1908: 1849-1861Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1908 |
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... Congress to encourage domestic industry , which is the great source of national as well as individual wealth and prosperity . I look to the wis- dom and patriotism of Congress for the adoption of a system which may place home labor at ...
... Congress to encourage domestic industry , which is the great source of national as well as individual wealth and prosperity . I look to the wis- dom and patriotism of Congress for the adoption of a system which may place home labor at ...
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... Congress . The cession of territory made by the late treaty with Mexico has greatly extended our exposed frontier and rendered its defense more difficult . That treaty has also brought us under obligations to Mexico , to comply with ...
... Congress . The cession of territory made by the late treaty with Mexico has greatly extended our exposed frontier and rendered its defense more difficult . That treaty has also brought us under obligations to Mexico , to comply with ...
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... Congress passed August 14 , 1848 , provision was made for extending post - office and mail accommodations to ... Congress as properly be- longing to the mail service . It is submitted to the wisdom of Congress whether a further reduction ...
... Congress passed August 14 , 1848 , provision was made for extending post - office and mail accommodations to ... Congress as properly be- longing to the mail service . It is submitted to the wisdom of Congress whether a further reduction ...
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... Congress to enact a law for carrying into effect the provision of the Con- stitution which requires an actual enumeration of the people of the United States within the ensuing year . Among the duties assigned by the Constitution to the ...
... Congress to enact a law for carrying into effect the provision of the Con- stitution which requires an actual enumeration of the people of the United States within the ensuing year . Among the duties assigned by the Constitution to the ...
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... Congress should take some action on that subject . I therefore did not interfere with the powers of the military commandant , who continued to exercise the functions of civil governor as before ; but I made no such appointment ...
... Congress should take some action on that subject . I therefore did not interfere with the powers of the military commandant , who continued to exercise the functions of civil governor as before ; but I made no such appointment ...
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Էջ 391 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Էջ 423 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Էջ 380 - IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I HAVE CAUSED THESE LETTERS TO BE MADE PATENT, AND THE SEAL OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE TO BE HEREUNTO AFFIXED.
Էջ 624 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Էջ 68 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title, and rights of Mexican citizens or acquire those of citizens of the United States; but they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans shall be considered to have elected...
Էջ 612 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Էջ 612 - ... in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes;...
Էջ 354 - California," and of the twelfth section of the act of Congress approved on the 31st of August, 1852, entitled " An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and for other purposes...
Էջ 322 - States, enlist or enter himself, or hire or retain another person to enlist or enter himself, or to go beyond the limits or jurisdiction of the United States...
Էջ 248 - An act making appropriations for the repair, preservation, and completion of certain public works heretofore commenced under the authority of law...