The Life and Public Services of Henry Clay: Down to 1848C.M. Saxton, Barker, 1859 - 627 pàgines |
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Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
Frases i termes més freqüents
25th Congress Adams addressed administration adopted American American Colonization Society bank bill Britain British Buren Calhoun candidate cause character citizens Clay's colony commenced committee Congress constitution currency declared duty effect election eloquent established executive existing expressed favor feelings foreign friends gentleman heart Henry Clay honor hope house of representatives hundred interests internal improvement Jackson John Quincy Adams John Tyler Kentucky labor letter liberty locofoco manufactures measure ment Mexico millions minister Mississippi Missouri nation never nomination object occasion opinion party passed patriotic political present president principles proposed proposition prosperity protection public lands question Randolph received regard remarks reply resolution respect revenue secretary senate session slavery slaves South South Carolina Spain speaker specie circular speech spirit statesman tariff tariff of 1842 territory Texas thousand tion treasury treaty Union United Virginia vote whig Whig party whole
Passatges populars
Pàgina 374 - He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Though high above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, Round him are icy rocks, and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head, And thus reward the toils which to those summits led.
Pàgina 167 - By your official and personal relations with the President, you maintain with him an intercourse which I neither enjoy nor covet. Go to him and tell him, without exaggeration, but in the language of truth and sincerity, the actual condition of his bleeding country.
Pàgina 417 - Subject to the joint action of the Vice President of the United States and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the jurisdiction and control including the care and maintenance of the legislative garage.
Pàgina 421 - So fades a summer cloud away, So sinks the gale when storms are o'er, So gently shuts the eye of day, So dies a wave along the shore.
Pàgina 91 - State, by a solemn public act, shall declare the assent of the said State to the said fundamental condition, and shall transmit to the President of the United States on or before the fourth Monday in November next an authentic copy of the said act; upon the receipt whereof the President, by proclamation, shall announce the fact; whereupon, and without any further proceeding on the part of Congress, the admission of the said State into this Union shall be considered as complete.
Pàgina 465 - Is there no remedy within the reach of the government ? Are we doomed to behold our industry languish and decay, yet more and more ? But there is a remedy, and that remedy consists in modifying our foreign policy, and in adopting a genuine American system.
Pàgina 491 - And has it come to this? Are we so humbled, so low, so debased, that we dare not express our sympathy for suffering Greece; that we dare not articulate our detestation of the brutal excesses of which she has been the bleeding victim, lest we might offend some one or more of their imperial and royal majesties ? If gentlemen are afraid to act rashly on such a subject, suppose, Mr. Chairman, that we unite in an humble petition, addressed to their majesties, beseeching them, that of their gracious condescension,...
Pàgina 251 - That justice and sound policy forbid the federal government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country...
Pàgina 470 - ... mean time, there will be an export of the precious metals, to the deep injury of internal trade, an unfavorable state of exchange, an export of public securities, a resort to credit, debt, mortgages. Most of, if not all, these circumstances, are believed now to be indicated by our country, in its foreign commercial relations. What have we received, for example, for the public stocks sent to England ? Goods. But those stocks are our bond, which must be paid.
Pàgina 543 - have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property of the United States.