The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasionsC.C. Little and J. Brown, 1851 |
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... hold the opinion that a mixed currency , composed partly of gold and silver and partly of good paper , redeemable and steadily redeemed in specie on demand , is the most useful and convenient for such a country as we inhabit , and is ...
... hold the opinion that a mixed currency , composed partly of gold and silver and partly of good paper , redeemable and steadily redeemed in specie on demand , is the most useful and convenient for such a country as we inhabit , and is ...
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... hold that we are competent , with a tolerable intellect , and with an honest purpose , to estab- lish a national institution which shall act with less fluctuation than is experienced in England under the Bank of England . Now ...
... hold that we are competent , with a tolerable intellect , and with an honest purpose , to estab- lish a national institution which shall act with less fluctuation than is experienced in England under the Bank of England . Now ...
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... holds . This may be all very well , as a means to show that she is solvent ; but it is not the inquiry that belongs to her , as the source and preserver of a sound circulating medium . I know very well that there are objections to the ...
... holds . This may be all very well , as a means to show that she is solvent ; but it is not the inquiry that belongs to her , as the source and preserver of a sound circulating medium . I know very well that there are objections to the ...
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... holds that the Con- stitution gives Congress no power to do any thing in the mat- ter . I said at the time this assertion was uttered , and I still say , that I am hardly able to express the astonishment I feel at what would seem the ...
... holds that the Con- stitution gives Congress no power to do any thing in the mat- ter . I said at the time this assertion was uttered , and I still say , that I am hardly able to express the astonishment I feel at what would seem the ...
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... holds the opinion that the general government has any more right to pay the debts of a State , than it has to pay the debts of a private individual . Congress might as well un- dertake to pay the debts of John Jacob Astor , as of the ...
... holds the opinion that the general government has any more right to pay the debts of a State , than it has to pay the debts of a private individual . Congress might as well un- dertake to pay the debts of John Jacob Astor , as of the ...
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Страница 496 - There shall be sung another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts, The good and great inspiring epic rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts.
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Страница 223 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandise imported.
Страница 212 - The friends of our country have long seen and desired that the power of making war, peace, and treaties, that of levying money and regulating commerce, and the correspondent executive and judicial authorities, should be fully and effectually vested in the General Government of the Union...
Страница 303 - The general rule to be applied in graduating the duties upon articles of foreign growth or manufacture is that which will place our own in fair competition with those of other countries; and the inducements to advance even a step beyond this point are controlling in regard to those articles which are of primary necessity in time of war.
Страница 481 - if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return : -gj.