The Works of John C. Calhoun: Speeches ... delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United StatesD. Appleton, 1853 |
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... received ; the failure of those peaceful means heretofore resorted to for the redress of our wrongs , are my proofs that it is necessary . Why should I mention the impressment of our seamen ; depredations on every branch of our commerce ...
... received ; the failure of those peaceful means heretofore resorted to for the redress of our wrongs , are my proofs that it is necessary . Why should I mention the impressment of our seamen ; depredations on every branch of our commerce ...
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... receive ; an object so detestable that an avowal dared not be made . Let me tell case . It is Were I to Sir , I might here rest the question . The affirmative of the proposition is established . I cannot but advert , however , to the ...
... receive ; an object so detestable that an avowal dared not be made . Let me tell case . It is Were I to Sir , I might here rest the question . The affirmative of the proposition is established . I cannot but advert , however , to the ...
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... to apprehend , at least none to warrant an acquiescence in the injuries we have received . On the contrary , I believe , no war can be less dangerous to the internal peace , or safety of the country . But we are told of the SPEECHES . 7.
... to apprehend , at least none to warrant an acquiescence in the injuries we have received . On the contrary , I believe , no war can be less dangerous to the internal peace , or safety of the country . But we are told of the SPEECHES . 7.
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... receive a blow on the breast , you dare not re- turn it on the head ; you are obliged to measure and return it on the precise point on which it was received . If you do not proceed with this mathematical accuracy , it ceases to be just ...
... receive a blow on the breast , you dare not re- turn it on the head ; you are obliged to measure and return it on the precise point on which it was received . If you do not proceed with this mathematical accuracy , it ceases to be just ...
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... received ? Happy for us , they had no force at that period of our country's glory . Had such been then acted on , this hall would never have witnessed a great people convened to deliberate for the general good ; a mighty empire , with ...
... received ? Happy for us , they had no force at that period of our country's glory . Had such been then acted on , this hall would never have witnessed a great people convened to deliberate for the general good ; a mighty empire , with ...
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Страница 277 - ... 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 and liberties, appertaining to them.
Страница 289 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state...
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Страница 263 - 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...
Страница 268 - ... propositions for changing its original basis. I go for the Constitution as it is, and for the Union as it is. But I am resolved not to submit in silence to accusations, either against myself individually or against the North, wholly unfounded and unjust ; accusations which impute to us a disposition to evade the constitutional compact, and to extend the power of the government over the internal laws and domestic condition of the States.
Страница 267 - I leave where I find it — in the hands of their own governments. It is their affair, not mine. Nor do I complain of the peculiar effect which the magnitude of that population has had in the distribution of power under this federal government. We know, sir, that the representation of the States in the other House is not equal. We know that great advantage in that respect, is enjoyed by the slave-holding States...
Страница 486 - The relation which now exists between the two races in the slave-holding States has existed for two centuries. It has grown with our growth and strengthened with our strength. It has entered into and modified all our institutions, civil and political. None other can be substituted.
Страница 262 - Resolved, That the people of the several States composing these United States are united as parties to a constitutional compact, to which the people of each State acceded as a separate and sovereign community, each binding itself by its own particular ratification ; and that the Union, of which the said compact is the bond, is a Union between the States ratifying the same.
Страница 299 - Constitution ; and consequently, that the ultimate right of the parties to the Constitution, to judge whether the compact has been dangerously violated, must extend to violations by one delegated authority, as well as by another; by the judiciary, as well as by the executive, or the Legislature.
Страница 237 - ... 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 and liberties appertaining to them.