The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States: With Parts of His Correspondence Never Before Published, and Notices of His Opinions on Questions of Civil Government, National Policy, and Constitutional Law, Τόμος 1C. Knight, 1837 - 4 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα xv
... debts . Mr. Jefferson's impressions of the arguments urged for and against the assumption . The proposition rejected . Mr. Jefferson joins in affecting a compromise . Merits of the question . Local division of the parties VOL . I. · b ...
... debts . Mr. Jefferson's impressions of the arguments urged for and against the assumption . The proposition rejected . Mr. Jefferson joins in affecting a compromise . Merits of the question . Local division of the parties VOL . I. · b ...
Σελίδα xix
... Debt - proposes to pay the debt to the Bank in advance . Further Assumption of State Debts . Mr. Giles's Resolutions against the Secretary of the Treasury . Proceedings thereon . Views of the two Parties . Conversation with the ...
... Debt - proposes to pay the debt to the Bank in advance . Further Assumption of State Debts . Mr. Giles's Resolutions against the Secretary of the Treasury . Proceedings thereon . Views of the two Parties . Conversation with the ...
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... debt to the Scotch or English merchants , who carried on the whole commerce of the country . Nor was this system of credit more eagerly sought by the improvident planter than it was given by the thrifty and sa- gacious trader ; for it ...
... debt to the Scotch or English merchants , who carried on the whole commerce of the country . Nor was this system of credit more eagerly sought by the improvident planter than it was given by the thrifty and sa- gacious trader ; for it ...
Σελίδα 62
... debts , due in Great Britain , and assign “ the heavy injury that would arise to the country , from an earlier adoption of the non - exportation plan , " when so much of their labour had been applied to the growing crop ; and they " had ...
... debts , due in Great Britain , and assign “ the heavy injury that would arise to the country , from an earlier adoption of the non - exportation plan , " when so much of their labour had been applied to the growing crop ; and they " had ...
Σελίδα 127
... debt : that her interest in the public lands , if prudently managed , might be made adequate to defraying the greater part , if not all the public expense ; that if such a plan were once adopted , there are hundreds of our most ...
... debt : that her interest in the public lands , if prudently managed , might be made adequate to defraying the greater part , if not all the public expense ; that if such a plan were once adopted , there are hundreds of our most ...
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Σελίδα 241 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Σελίδα 611 - Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British Brethren We have warned them...
Σελίδα 611 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Σελίδα 609 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Σελίδα 32 - Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go whence I shall not return, Even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; A land of darkness, as darkness itself; And of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as darkness.
Σελίδα 125 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Σελίδα 610 - He has [suffered] * the administration of justice [totally to cease in some of these States] 2 refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made [our] judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices, [by a self-assumed power\ and sent hither swarms of new officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
Σελίδα 87 - Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties — being with one mind resolved to die FREEMEN rather than to live SLAVES.
Σελίδα 259 - I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government, enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.