The Works of William H. Seward, Svazek 1Redfield, 1853 |
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Strana xxv
... legislation into a slave state . None claims that Congress shall usurp power to abolish slavery in the slave states . None claims that any violent , unconstitutional or unlawful measure shall be embraced . And on the other hand , if we ...
... legislation into a slave state . None claims that Congress shall usurp power to abolish slavery in the slave states . None claims that any violent , unconstitutional or unlawful measure shall be embraced . And on the other hand , if we ...
Strana xxxii
... legislation to corporate monopolies for banking , canals , rail- roads , and similar purposes . His efforts were not ... legislative interference , is the fruit of the principle he then maintained , and is an ample vindication of their ...
... legislation to corporate monopolies for banking , canals , rail- roads , and similar purposes . His efforts were not ... legislative interference , is the fruit of the principle he then maintained , and is an ample vindication of their ...
Strana xxxiii
... legislative session for this year , Mr. Seward took a still more prominent share in the proceedings of the Senate . The nomination of Mr. Tallmadge , then a member of the Senate , to the office of United States Senator , called forth ...
... legislative session for this year , Mr. Seward took a still more prominent share in the proceedings of the Senate . The nomination of Mr. Tallmadge , then a member of the Senate , to the office of United States Senator , called forth ...
Strana xlix
... legislation . Nor could he be convinced of the practicability of the measure , in the existing state of feeling . He accordingly dissuaded his friends from urging the passage of such an act . In its place , he recommended the division ...
... legislation . Nor could he be convinced of the practicability of the measure , in the existing state of feeling . He accordingly dissuaded his friends from urging the passage of such an act . In its place , he recommended the division ...
Strana liv
... legislative policy of 1838. He recommended that measures should be adopted to secure the enlargement of the Erie Canal , and the completion of the lateral canals , before the year 1845 . The report of Mr. Flagg , the comptroller , who ...
... legislative policy of 1838. He recommended that measures should be adopted to secure the enlargement of the Erie Canal , and the completion of the lateral canals , before the year 1845 . The report of Mr. Flagg , the comptroller , who ...
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Strana 131 - A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the rights and liberties of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature of this state to make suitable provisions for the support and maintenance of public schools. " The legislature shall, at as early a day as practicable, establish free schools throughout the
Strana 377 - to any other practicable communications, whether by canal or railway, across the isthmus which connects North and South America, and especially to the inter-oceanic communications, should the same prove to be practicable, whether by canal or railway, which are now proposed to be established, by the way of Tehuantepec or Panama."—
Strana 219 - predominant motive has been to endeavor to gain time to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption to that degree of strength and constancy which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortune.
Strana 239 - Look at the manner in which the people of New England have of late carried on the whale fishery. While we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits,
Strana 528 - a nest of caterpillars like these, when he admonished the unwary : " Curse not the king ; no, not in thy thought; and curse not the rich, even in thy bedchamber ; for a bird of the air shall carry thy voice, and that which hath wings shall tell of the matter.
Strana lxxxvi - whether acquired lawfully or seized by usurpation. The Constitution regulates our stewardship ; the Constitution devotes the domain to union, to justice, to defence, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Higher Law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to
Strana 219 - may be inferred without any thing more from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation in cases in which it is free to act to maintain inviolate the relations of peace and amity toward other nations.
Strana 157 - Virginia claimed the broad region lying north-west of the Ohio, and relinquished it in 1785, with a declaration that it should " be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the Confederation or Federal Alliance of the said states, (Virginia inclusive,) according to their usual
Strana 74 - But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble 'purposes. The territory is a part, no inconsiderable part, of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator
Strana 131 - The legislative powers of the state shall be vested in two distinct branches ; one to be styled the Senate, the other the House of Representatives; and both together the Legislature of the State of New Mexico. The style of all laws shall be, Be it enacted by the