Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress, Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 3
The Public Lands . ( SENATE . he said , was the key to unlock ... lay the bill on the
table . He necessity for it . He was opposed to making apologies thought the bill
could be amended by the insertion of a for our public acts -- he would make no ...
The Public Lands . ( SENATE . he said , was the key to unlock ... lay the bill on the
table . He necessity for it . He was opposed to making apologies thought the bill
could be amended by the insertion of a for our public acts -- he would make no ...
Page 4
The Public Lands . ( Dec. 30 , 1829 . It was one the office of Surveyor General
may not be abolished with a bill . It was then debated on its own merits . If , after
disout detriment to the public interest . ” cussion , it went to a committee , it went
with ...
The Public Lands . ( Dec. 30 , 1829 . It was one the office of Surveyor General
may not be abolished with a bill . It was then debated on its own merits . If , after
disout detriment to the public interest . ” cussion , it went to a committee , it went
with ...
Page 8
4 , 1830 . of the country , whose object was the vindication of the an act forbidden
by the laws of the United States : it sancalleged rights of the Southern Indians ; if
he understood tions intruders on the public lands , and it will sanction this it ...
4 , 1830 . of the country , whose object was the vindication of the an act forbidden
by the laws of the United States : it sancalleged rights of the Southern Indians ; if
he understood tions intruders on the public lands , and it will sanction this it ...
Page 9
The surveys of the public lands are the lands in the proper hands of those whose
occupation to be checked in the first place , [ alluding to Mr. Foor's it is to cultivate
them . These are usually a class of men proposition ) and now pre - emption is ...
The surveys of the public lands are the lands in the proper hands of those whose
occupation to be checked in the first place , [ alluding to Mr. Foor's it is to cultivate
them . These are usually a class of men proposition ) and now pre - emption is ...
Page 11
Resolved , That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of limiting for * TC ESDAY , JAxtakY 12 , 1830 . a certain period the
sales of the public lands to such lands EXECUTIVE POWERS . only as have ...
Resolved , That the Committee on Public Lands be instructed to inquire into the
expediency of limiting for * TC ESDAY , JAxtakY 12 , 1830 . a certain period the
sales of the public lands to such lands EXECUTIVE POWERS . only as have ...
What people are saying - Write a review
We haven't found any reviews in the usual places.
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
administration adopted amendment appointed appropriation authority become believe bill called cause character charge citizens claim Committee common compact Congress consideration considered constitution convention course Court debate decide Department doctrine dollars duty effect England equal established Executive exercise exist express fact favor Federal feel Foot's Resolution force friends gentleman give given Government grant hand honorable House hundred important improvement Indians inquiry interest liberty limits March Massachusetts means measures ment millions necessary never North object operation opinion party passed persons political present President principles proposed protection public lands question reason referred relation removal Representatives respect Senate South South Carolina sovereign supposed thing thought thousand tion treaty true Union United Virginia vote West Western whole
Popular passages
Page 73 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Page 148 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 57 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 181 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Page 80 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 164 - The inhabitants of our Western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head. They...
Page 148 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties, by geographical discriminations — Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 72 - State or neighborhood; when I refuse for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South — and if, moved by local prejudice, or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!
Page 74 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's Government; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably, sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not affected by this supreme law. But the State Legislatures, as political bodies, however sovereign, are yet not sovereign over the...
Page 57 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the...