A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1908: 1849-1861Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1908 |
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... condition of the agriculturist , to increase his prosperity , and to extend his means of usefulness to his country , by multiplying his sources of information , should be the study of every statesman and a primary object with every ...
... condition of the agriculturist , to increase his prosperity , and to extend his means of usefulness to his country , by multiplying his sources of information , should be the study of every statesman and a primary object with every ...
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... condition of the country through which it must pass the work be feasible , and , if it be found so , whether it should be undertaken as a national improvement or left to individual enterprise , and in the latter alternative what aid ...
... condition of the country through which it must pass the work be feasible , and , if it be found so , whether it should be undertaken as a national improvement or left to individual enterprise , and in the latter alternative what aid ...
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... condition of civil affairs in the Oregon Territory . " The reports , with the official correspondence accompanying them , it is believed , embrace all the information in the Departments called for by the resolutions . Z. TAYLOR . To the ...
... condition of civil affairs in the Oregon Territory . " The reports , with the official correspondence accompanying them , it is believed , embrace all the information in the Departments called for by the resolutions . Z. TAYLOR . To the ...
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... condition , and future prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States . " To the Senate of the United States : MILLARD FILLMORE . WASHINGTON , August 24 , 1850 . I have the honor to transmit herewith a report submitted by the Sec ...
... condition , and future prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States . " To the Senate of the United States : MILLARD FILLMORE . WASHINGTON , August 24 , 1850 . I have the honor to transmit herewith a report submitted by the Sec ...
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... condition of that Department . At the close of the last fiscal year the length of the inland mail routes in the United States ( not embracing the service in Oregon and Califor- nia ) was 178,672 miles , the annual transportation thereon ...
... condition of that Department . At the close of the last fiscal year the length of the inland mail routes in the United States ( not embracing the service in Oregon and Califor- nia ) was 178,672 miles , the annual transportation thereon ...
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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...