This is a list of all the questions and their associated study carrel identifiers. One can learn a lot of the "aboutness" of a text simply by reading the questions.
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46906 | Could not the Missionary board send out an assistant? |
46906 | replied the doctor, courteously,"who is he?" |
28750 | Question: Was any of the original ironwork left? |
28750 | Question: Where did the old chandeliers you installed in the ceiling come from? |
28750 | Question: Where did you get your ideas for the woodwork? |
60300 | A reprieve? |
60300 | If,he says,"I am seeking logical consistency, the symmetry of the legal structure, how far shall I seek it? |
60300 | Does the right of suffrage entitle women to serve as jurors? |
60300 | Governor, have you a copy that you can let me have?" |
60300 | It says of a new member:"What will happen to him when he takes his seat in the Senate? |
60300 | The real question is,''Does the conduct under existing facts amount to intimidation?'' |
40780 | 2) Did the defendant commit the disseisin? |
40780 | As an example, is anyone happier than a moron or fool? |
40780 | For instance, it questioned what man would stick his head into the halter of marriage if he first weighed the inconveniences of that life? |
40780 | Or what woman would ever embrace her husband if she foresaw or considered the dangers of childbirth and the drudgery of motherhood? |
40780 | Shall they( think you) escape unpunished that have thus oppressed you, and I have been respectless of their duty and regardless of our honor? |
40780 | What is this, if not to be mad? |
59877 | ***** Mr. Hardfax:"So your son left us to go into a bank in the city? |
59877 | --_Vaudeville News._*****"Prisoner at the bar,"said the judge,"will you have trial by judge or jury?" |
59877 | After this question was asked the Court said:"Is that material?" |
59877 | How did he acquit himself?" |
59877 | Mr. O''Conor, when he was at liberty, would put on the back of his head the silk hat which he always wore and say:"Who''s for a walk?" |
59877 | What acts of petitioner constitute the election which should bar this New Jersey proceeding? |
59877 | Where, then, is the evidence of lack of good faith and failure to exercise reasonable discretion? |
17150 | Brothel(?). |
17150 | If a man has broken into a house, one shall kill him before the breach and bury him in it(?). |
17150 | If a man has hired a( boat?) |
17150 | If he has hired a calf( goat? |
17150 | Merchant, trader, relations with agent, 100- 107. official(? |
17150 | Strength of a man, crown of the head(? |
17150 | scale fixed by king, 44, 51. wages fixed for-- boatman, 6_ GUR_ of corn_ per annum_, 239. working ox, 4,,,, 242. cow in milk,(?) |
36299 | 2) Did the defendant commit the disseisin? |
36299 | As an example, is anyone happier than a moron or fool? |
36299 | For instance, it questioned what man would stick his head into the halter of marriage if he first weighed the inconveniences of that life? |
36299 | Or what woman would ever embrace her husband if she foresaw or considered the dangers of childbirth and the drudgery of motherhood? |
36299 | Shall they( think you) escape unpunished that have thus oppressed you, and I have been respectless of their duty and regardless of our honor? |
36299 | What am I? |
36299 | What am I? |
36299 | What is this, if not to be mad? |
13376 | 2) Did the defendant commit the disseisin? |
13376 | And the said John Solas is bound to the said Thomas Profyt in 100 pounds by a bond to make defense of the said lands and tenements by the bribery(?) |
13376 | As an example, is anyone happier than a moron or fool? |
13376 | For instance, it questioned what man would stick his head into the halter of marriage if he first weighed the inconveniences of that life? |
13376 | Or what woman would ever embrace her husband if she foresaw or considered the dangers of childbirth and the drudgery of motherhood? |
13376 | Shall they( think you) escape unpunished that have thus oppressed you, and I have been respectless of their duty and regardless of our honor? |
13376 | What am I? |
13376 | What am I? |
13376 | What is this, if not to be mad? |
6603 | 2) Did the defendant commit the disseisin? |
6603 | And the said John Solas is bound to the said Thomas Profyt in 100 pounds by a bond to make defence of the said lands and tenements by the bribery(?) |
6603 | As an example, is anyone happier than a moron or fool? |
6603 | For instance, it questioned what man would stick his head into the halter of marriage if he first weighed the inconveniences of that life? |
6603 | Or what woman would ever embrace her husband if she foresaw or considered the dangers of childbirth and the drudgery of motherhood? |
6603 | Shall they( think you) escape unpunished that have thus oppressed you, and I have been respectless of their duty and regardless of our honor? |
6603 | What am I? |
6603 | What am I? |
6603 | What is this, if not to be mad? |
4638 | How so? |
4638 | About a week later I met Uncle Billy on the street again and said to him,"How is this Uncle Billy, I thought you were going home on the last steamer?" |
4638 | After they parted I approached the one left and said,"Is this Uncle Billy?" |
4638 | But what shall I say of them? |
4638 | He said,"Are you going to sell it?" |
4638 | He stopped and looked at me a minute and then said,"Young man, how deep do you expect to go before you reach bedrock?" |
4638 | I said to him,"How are you fixed, Uncle Billy?" |
4638 | I turned around and went back to the office, to the same counter and clerk, and said to him,"Do you rectify mistakes here?" |
4638 | Mr. Lincoln smilingly asked,"What good would it do for our people to go down to Mexico even if the railroads were built? |
4638 | On the relief of the outer sentinel and his return to camp, Lamalfa issued the challenge which was to repeat three times"Who comes there?" |
4638 | The clerk brought it forward at once and I said,"How much for the deposit?" |
4638 | The two brothers met one day opposite the unfinished building and James said,"Peter why do n''t you go on and finish your building?" |
4638 | Which shall be the balance of power, the first or the last? |
2373 | But from his point of view, what is the difference between being fined and taxed a certain sum for doing a certain thing? |
2373 | But what does it mean to a bad man? |
2373 | But why do you imply it? |
2373 | Do we deal with criminals on proper principles? |
2373 | Does punishment deter? |
2373 | Has the defendant gained a right or not? |
2373 | If so, why should it not be required in all contracts? |
2373 | Is it a useful form? |
2373 | Sometimes the desirability of peace, but why is peace more desirable after twenty years than before? |
2373 | Take the fundamental question, What constitutes the law? |
2373 | What does this mean? |
2373 | What have we better than a blind guess to show that the criminal law in its present form does more good than harm? |
2373 | What significance is there in calling one taking right and another wrong from the point of view of the law? |
2373 | Why is a false and injurious statement privileged, if it is made honestly in giving information about a servant? |
2373 | Why is a man at liberty to set up a business which he knows will ruin his neighborhood? |
2373 | Why should any merely historical distinction be allowed to affect the rights and obligations of business men? |
30802 | A custom, that lands shall descend to the most worthy of the owner''s blood, is void; for how shall this worth be determined? |
30802 | But how does it interpose and compel? |
30802 | But how was this to be effected? |
30802 | But then what is the pledge which the public faith has pawned for the security of these debts? |
30802 | But where does this money exist? |
30802 | But, as all the members of society are naturally equal, it may be asked, in whose hands are the reins of government to be entrusted? |
30802 | For where is the difference, whether the people declare their assent to a law by suffrage, or by a uniform course of acting accordingly?" |
49419 | And what did England answer? 49419 If that power,"said Mr. O''Connell,"so claimed, had really existed, where was the necessity for passing that statute? |
49419 | What,he says,"if we should agree to make burying in woollen a fashion, as our neighbours have made it a law?" |
49419 | And why? |
49419 | But how had England kept its word? |
49419 | Is this equality? |
49419 | Pitt goes on to say:''But how stands the case now( 1799)? |
49419 | Whence did the money come? |
49419 | Whether, nevertheless, there is any other people whose wants may be more easily supplied from home? |
49419 | Why was no attempt made for their relief? |
49419 | Would that enable them to undersell us? |
8691 | Certainly, Sir,was the quick retort,"and may I beg your honor to take the wool out of your ears? |
8691 | Are the courts to send such questions to a jury or shall the judges decide them? |
8691 | But may not a power be judicial in its nature and yet not wholly so? |
8691 | But out of what did this doctrine spring? |
8691 | But what is a suit? |
8691 | But what shall be the nature of this office, and who shall decide whether these conditions have been fulfilled and these papers filed? |
8691 | Can anything less than that be considered as due process of law? |
8691 | Can that be deemed a judicial sentence to imprisonment which is a sentence to imprisonment during the pleasure of certain administrative officials? |
8691 | Could they sue and be sued in the courts of the United States? |
8691 | How far can the courts, in dealing with these, govern their action by that of the executive? |
8691 | If so, ought not the fate to be meted out to them by judicial authority? |
8691 | Rufus Choate once said that the question at bottom was, Are you afraid to trust the people? |
8691 | What is due process of law? |
8691 | What is property? |
8691 | What serves to establish one? |
8691 | What, he asked, was this law of the land by which all things were to be tried and judged? |
8691 | Who, he asked, were the present judges of their Supreme Court? |
30872 | And our allies, at this time natural, must they not imagine, that it is better to have in us declared enemies than pretended friends? |
30872 | And shall we not be involved in a ruinous war, which we might have rendered advantageous, if it had been well directed? |
30872 | Are we the children of Great Britain, any more than the cities of London, Exeter and Bath? |
30872 | But let me intreat you, Sir, to pause-- Do you consider yourself as a missionary of loyalty or of rebellion? |
30872 | Have they not reason to conclude from it, that our inaction ought to be less attributed to our weakness, than to our affection for England? |
30872 | Is not the human understanding exhausted there? |
30872 | It is even of more consequence to the rich themselves, and to their posterity.--The only question is, whether it is a public emolument? |
30872 | Let me intreat you to consider, will the mother be pleased, when you represent her as deaf to the cries of her children? |
30872 | That the ocean, heretofore covered with our vessels, should see at present scarcely any? |
30872 | When you compare her to the infamous miscreant, who lately stood on the gallows for starving her child? |
30872 | Will not this delay occasion a suspicion that we prefer the interest of our enemy to that of our country? |
30872 | Will not this opinion destroy all confidence in our nation heretofore so renowned in this respect? |
30872 | that in 1780, more than two thousands of Dutch vessels having passed the Sound, not one was found upon the list in 1781? |
22910 | Do you promise that you will deliver me such and such a slave, at such and such a place, on such and such a day? |
22910 | All this is easily understood by a modern; but who are the Agnates? |
22910 | But in what capacity did he acquire them? |
22910 | But there is still the question, Why did Primogeniture gradually supersede every other principle of succession? |
22910 | But what was the Family? |
22910 | But why? |
22910 | How came it to be a question whether invariable sequence was identical with necessary connection? |
22910 | How was authority so little definite reconciled with a settled condition of society and of law? |
22910 | I must confine myself to two questions: how far did Maine develop or modify in his subsequent writings the main thesis of_ Ancient Law_? |
22910 | The next question is, what is the nature of this union and the degree of intimacy which it involves? |
22910 | What then is meant by saying that the Slave was originally included in the Family? |
22910 | What then is the inference? |
22910 | What then is the reason of this arbitrary inclusion and exclusion? |
22910 | What then was involved in this nexum or bond? |
22910 | What was an Obligation? |
22910 | What was the exact point of contact between the old Jus Gentium and the Law of Nature? |
22910 | Why did this not occur in the feudal world? |
22910 | Why were they not successively included among the favoured objects of enjoyment? |
22910 | and how came it that the dead were allowed to control the posthumous disposition of their property? |
22910 | to what extent has this thesis stood the test of the criticism and research of others? |
22910 | to whom and in what form does it pass? |
38589 | Fines, for what? |
38589 | Is that all? |
38589 | It will be said, this Statute has been read Reversely in our sister England, where It is the Charter of proud Chanticleer; But what of that? 38589 What is this to the purpose?" |
38589 | You had as good say nothing,observed the Recorder, and the Lord Mayor added,"Was it not an unlawful assembly? |
38589 | And what of hares in coursing run to death? |
38589 | Are we to find Game Cocks, domestic fowls? |
38589 | Are we to hold that birds, are animals? |
38589 | As to the legal penalty of adultery, are we quite sure that, according to results, we have greatly improved upon the old Bible Law? |
38589 | But what, it was asked, should be done where a one- eyed man happened to put out one of his neighbour''s eyes? |
38589 | Does this not offer a fine comment on the grievous usury so cruelly enforced in after years by these people upon the_ Gentile_ races? |
38589 | Have you considered substantially the whole evidence as it was declared and recited? |
38589 | How again came it that a claim of feudal service might be departed from by the delivery and placing of a wand(_ virgula_) upon the altar? |
38589 | How came this singular procedure into Scottish practice? |
38589 | How much of this was suspicion substantiated by torture? |
38589 | Of quivering foxes torn by yelling hounds? |
38589 | Of wheeling pigeons slaughtered for a prize? |
38589 | One can understand why a sod should be so often a token, but why does the glove play so large a part in Merovingian and Carolingian conveyancing? |
38589 | Should he lose his only eye by way of retaliation? |
38589 | The Queen''s crown, the Judge''s ermine, the Mayor''s mace, what are they else? |
38589 | The question then arises,"On what grounds was this intercourse conducted?" |
38589 | Was it in Herrick''s mind when he penned his fine tribute to Selden? |
38589 | Was there some such boon in bonny Scotland? |
38589 | What does B do? |
38589 | What was to be done? |
38589 | Whose was the ring? |
38589 | Why for example amongst the Saxons should a resignation of all interest in an estate have been made by a gesture with curved fingers? |
32168 | As Ames puts it,"the unmoral standard of acting at one''s peril"is replaced by the question,"Was the act blameworthy?" |
32168 | But are we required to choose? |
32168 | But does not Miller when hard pressed resort to something very like social- utilitarianism? |
32168 | But does not this also require demonstration? |
32168 | But have we any given to us absolutely? |
32168 | Do the facts come within or fail to come within the legal precept? |
32168 | Do they promote or do they impede social interdependence through similarity of interest and division of labor? |
32168 | For how can there be law unless as a body of rules declaring a natural law which is above all human enactment? |
32168 | Gmelin, Quousque? |
32168 | If the courts do not respect the law, who will? |
32168 | Is New York a community of artisans but Massachusetts a community of landowners? |
32168 | Is the end of law anything less than to do whatever may be achieved thereby to satisfy human desires? |
32168 | May we not learn something from the futility of all efforts to administer justice exclusively by either method? |
32168 | May we not refer these phenomena, not to the will of the person bound, but to another postulate of civilized society and its corollaries? |
32168 | This raises in the first instance the question"How is a merely juridical or rational[ as distinguished from a purely physical] possession possible?" |
32168 | What common elements may we find in the foregoing twelve pictures of what law is? |
32168 | What was the need of the time which philosophy was called upon to satisfy? |
32168 | Why should these"abstract"promises be enforced and not others? |
55724 | Nay,said others,"how forfeit the ocean?" |
55724 | Thou fals trayter,yelled he;"why arte thou soo longe in fals bytter beleve?" |
55724 | What,urged he in effect,"was the use of actual entry, lease and ouster? |
55724 | When shall we reach these ploughshares? |
55724 | Where is your lieutenant? |
55724 | And if, not the tenant, but the landlord himself, were deprived of his property? |
55724 | And the land- owners? |
55724 | And what of the dogs? |
55724 | And what was the legal status of the press- gang? |
55724 | As he marched forward he was addressed by the Constable,"Who art thou, and wherefore comest thou armed to the door of these lists?" |
55724 | But how far can we trust these entertaining authors? |
55724 | But how if the slayer were a lad? |
55724 | But how to riddle this one? |
55724 | But there was the rub-- how about death by suffocation? |
55724 | Did Broadfoot grasp the fact that they were trespassers? |
55724 | Did the vision of that unseemly shroud really disturb poor Nance Oldfield''s last moments, as Pope would have us believe? |
55724 | Has not that its Lumber Room of repealed Statutes, discarded methods, antiquated text- books--"many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore"? |
55724 | He made a passionate appeal to the Court("Did not perhaps God open the mouth of Balaam''s ass?" |
55724 | How_ not_ to sink under such conditions? |
55724 | If he answered,"Not guilty,"the next question was:"Culprit, how will you be tried?" |
55724 | If in spite of all it went softly down, who dared to refuse belief in the man''s innocence? |
55724 | In other words, was A. the real owner of the land? |
55724 | In this action the main point evidently was: Had A. a right to grant C. the lease? |
55724 | Is it fanciful to apply this image to the Law? |
55724 | Of old time man''s dress was rich and varied, but how to catch its vanished effect? |
55724 | She was moved not a whit; and then Rhodes, the other judge, broke in:"Why stand we all day about this naughty, wilful woman?" |
55724 | THE CUSTOM OF THE MANOR Has chance or necessity ever opened to you the charter- chest of the respectable solicitor in some country town? |
55724 | The clerk then asked him,"How say you, are you guilty or not guilty?" |
55724 | The rope seemed past praying for, but what about the bell? |
55724 | Thus, a man died by misadventure: then was the material cause active or passive? |
55724 | To put a prisoner before a jury without his consent was not to be thought of; but how to get his consent? |
55724 | To take a later instance, was not Shakespeare himself the most illustrious of poachers? |
55724 | Well, could he read? |
55724 | Were the judges to encamp in a country town while the prisoners made up their mind as to pleading? |
55724 | Will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures?" |
55724 | or, if anyone not in possession claimed a piece of land as his freehold? |
38238 | And St. Ambrose:"For who does not consider an injury to the body, or the loss of patrimony, less than injury to the spirit or the loss of reputation?" |
38238 | And was not that honour sufficiently avenged by the death of his wife? |
38238 | And who can deny that he ought to be somewhat excused, if afterwards he took vengeance for such a violation? |
38238 | And why can he not bring some other no less convincing proof, if honour urged Franceschini thereto? |
38238 | And would he not even have had his wife declared an adulteress for the sake of gaining the dowry? |
38238 | As soon as Signora Violante saw and heard this she took pity on me and exclaimed to the said Signori:"Where do you wish the poor thing to go now?" |
38238 | But if you do[ not?] |
38238 | But what did he do? |
38238 | But what does not a man lose when he allows his wife to rule him? |
38238 | December(?) |
38238 | Did she acknowledge herself guilty of any sin, or of any wrong done to him in guarding her purity and modesty? |
38238 | How then can these authorities be applied to our case? |
38238 | How then may a man endure to leave adultery unavenged, which is known to have been committed to his eternal disgrace? |
38238 | So in the present case, according to the same author:"By this young and passionate man is she supposed to have been returned still a virgin?" |
38238 | Therefore you will not pass[?] |
38238 | What did Franceschini answer? |
38238 | What did he try to do, although he was armed with a sword against his defenceless wife and against Caponsacchi, who had with him only a little dagger? |
38238 | What hinders me from laying you out here? |
38238 | When his wife saw him, did she, timid as she was, shrink back? |
38238 | Who indeed desires that anything else than justice be administered, and especially when dealing with poor imprisoned wretches? |
38238 | Why did they, as I may say, cherish her in their breasts, not merely up till the birth of her child, but even till death? |
38238 | Why imbrue himself straightway with the blood of Violante and Pietro, who were not accomplices in the pretended dishonour? |
12911 | A star? 12911 It is; what will you take?" |
12911 | No sight? 12911 What are sail- needles?" |
12911 | What do you think of it? |
12911 | Whom shall we name? |
12911 | Yes; but is he also able? 12911 After the lecture, a few days later, he turned to me and asked,Is she here?" |
12911 | And until we have made our own churches fully free and fruitful in spiritual life are we absolved from the call to service? |
12911 | And what course can we pursue to get the most and the best out of it? |
12911 | Boylike I would say,"Father, what shall I do?" |
12911 | But what_ is_ best in life? |
12911 | Can you wonder that I have kept this from you? |
12911 | Do you know I believe work with boys is about the only hope? |
12911 | Finally I mentioned, casually like, that I was_ Tom_, whereat he feigned surprise, and remarked in his pleasant voice,"Was that you? |
12911 | HAVE WE DONE OUR WORK? |
12911 | Have we earned our discharge from the army of life? |
12911 | Have we not done our work?" |
12911 | He smilingly replied,"You see its place? |
12911 | How passed the night through thy long waking?" |
12911 | I arose well at the side of the chamber, while the leader stood directly in front, but the Speaker happened(?) |
12911 | I asked,"Who do you think we have in mind?" |
12911 | I said,"What''s the idea?" |
12911 | If an Indian wishes to ask where you are going, he will say,"Ta hunt tow ingya?" |
12911 | If he is not read, whose fault is it? |
12911 | In all innocence I asked the somewhat leading question:"What did Jesus charge them?" |
12911 | Is it possible that after a separation of nearly six years I have at last met my father? |
12911 | Is it?--and if not, why not? |
12911 | Langdon would suggest some procedure:"How will this do, Jim?" |
12911 | My own sister asked in indignation:"Who is that old man making eyes at me?" |
12911 | OUR FATHER Is God our Father? |
12911 | On every hand was heard the question,"What shall we do with our boys?" |
12911 | One of the members later cornered him and asked"Where is the watershed?" |
12911 | Shall human will succumb to fate, Crushed by the happenings of a day? |
12911 | Shall we retreat? |
12911 | The brother lingered and finally drawled,"Deacon, it''s customary, is n''t it, to_ treat_ a buyer?" |
12911 | The elder, looking up, said,"Why did n''t the pesky fool bring her with him?" |
12911 | The fifth line of the seventh verse originally read:"Or is civilization a failure?" |
12911 | Then of Perkins he asked,"By the way, Senator, how is Brady doing?" |
12911 | There are those who say,"Why should we keep it up? |
12911 | WHY THE CHURCH? |
12911 | We met one of his friends, who said,"How are you, Ames?" |
12911 | What is the most important thing in life? |
12911 | What is their testimony in this particular case? |
12911 | Where are the sellers of lottery tickets, where the horse- races and the open gambling? |
12911 | Who are we that we should complain that life is hard, or conclude that it is not better so? |
12911 | Why do we covet other opportunities instead of doing the best with those we have? |
12911 | no sound?" |
15752 | But,said the man who had lost and who held the horse,"the bridle certainly belongs to me, he does not take the bridle, does he?" |
15752 | How big was the sack? |
15752 | How much have you been paid for the decision? |
15752 | My dear Mr. Peck,I said,"will you trust me for two weeks''board?" |
15752 | What did the motion that Judge Terry made with his right hand indicate to you? |
15752 | What is this, Lake? |
15752 | And if so, why should the punishment be less? |
15752 | And was it not so in this case? |
15752 | As I entered he looked up and said,"Why, Judge, you do n''t look well, what is the matter?" |
15752 | As soon as I said this the owner of the bridle turned to his adversary and said,"What will you take for the horse?" |
15752 | Aspinwall replied,"But I do n''t know anything about your onions and potatoes; how should I? |
15752 | Broderick?" |
15752 | Can I help you?" |
15752 | Can the authority of the United States for the protection of their officers be less than their authority to protect their property? |
15752 | Customer:"What was done about it?" |
15752 | Did Judge Turner give any directions to the sheriff to arrest Judge Haun, notwithstanding he was holding his court? |
15752 | Did Mr. Field, in consequence of the order of Judge Turner, leave the court- room in company with the deputy sheriff? |
15752 | Did the Court of Sessions of Yuba County hold a session on that day? |
15752 | Did you continue in the District Court or did you go to the Court of Sessions? |
15752 | Did you spurn the wretch away who made a corrupt proposal to you, or did you hold counsel, sweet counsel with him? |
15752 | Do n''t you think it is a large knife?" |
15752 | Do you realize the fact, my dear Judge, that more than a quarter of a century has elapsed since these events transpired? |
15752 | Every one in greeting me, said"It is a glorious country,"or"Is n''t it a glorious country?" |
15752 | Field was fined by Judge Turner and ordered to be imprisoned? |
15752 | Has Mr. Field or Mr. Mulford ever been restored to the bar by the District Court since the order of expulsion on the 10th of June? |
15752 | Has that order ever been vacated on the records of the District Court? |
15752 | He replied,"What is it that worries you?" |
15752 | How then? |
15752 | How was he to be punished? |
15752 | I asked,"Why not?" |
15752 | I hurried back to the saloon; and as the jurors were standing about chatting with each other I exclaimed,"How is this? |
15752 | I replied,"But, suppose a man puts his name down and afterwards do n''t want the lots?" |
15752 | If this be not so, in the language of the Supreme Court,"Why do we have marshals at all?" |
15752 | Just at this moment Mr. Rodman M. Price, formerly Governor of New Jersey, made his appearance and exclaimed,"How is this? |
15752 | Mr. Wigginton said that Mrs. Terry asked her husband what he could do, and he replied, showing more feeling than he had before:"Do? |
15752 | Mrs. Terry took a third seat from him, and seeing him, said:"What, are you in this car too?" |
15752 | Shall it be said that Justice Field ought to have gone to the nearest justice of the peace and obsequiously begged to have Terry placed under bonds? |
15752 | She repeated her question:"Are you going to take the responsibility of ordering me to deliver up that contract?" |
15752 | Then, after a short pause, I remarked,"What is the case against your prisoner? |
15752 | Turning to me he said,"You say it is all right?" |
15752 | Was the order entered on the records of the District Court, expelling Messrs. Field, Goodwin, and Mulford? |
15752 | Was the trial of Cameron against Sutter proceeded with after Mr. Field left? |
15752 | Were any directions given about a posse? |
15752 | Were any members of the bar expelled by Judge Turner on that day? |
15752 | Were you in court on the 10th day of June? |
15752 | What day was that order entered? |
15752 | What useful functions can they perform in the economy of the National Government? |
15752 | What value would there be to a title in one man, with a right of invasion in the whole world? |
15752 | What was to be done with the prisoner? |
15752 | What, then, would your court do? |
15752 | When you had removed the cover you raised the lid slightly, but in a moment said to me,"What is this, Lake? |
15752 | Who can say that her spirit was not then hovering over him and whispering caution in his ear? |
15752 | Who knows but that a mother''s prayer for the protection of her son, breathed years before, was answered then? |
15752 | Who made up the records of the Court of Sessions on that day? |
15752 | Who took the place of Mr. Field after he left? |
15752 | You have sent Turner where there are only grizzly bears and Indians; why not let him remain there? |
15752 | or"Did you ever see a more glorious country?" |
15752 | you have not had your cigars? |
60238 | Stop a minute,said Parsons,"do you want advice as to the moral aspect of the case or as to the legal aspect of it?" |
60238 | True, sir,said Pinkney, who affected to be a man of fashion,"but can a gentleman dress in less than four hours?" |
60238 | ''Oh, how are you? |
60238 | ''What do we care whether Myers agrees with the case, or what Fessenden thinks of the dissenting opinion? |
60238 | ( a) How soon after the death of a testator may his will be admitted to probate? |
60238 | ( b) How soon after the death of an intestate may administration of his estate be granted? |
60238 | Adams, do you agree with that?'' |
60238 | And what about internal affairs? |
60238 | Are individual enterprise and talent to be smothered by rule? |
60238 | At common law what right had a husband in personal property acquired by the wife during coverture? |
60238 | At the end of the three months was G liable? |
60238 | Can he succeed if the special relief prayed for fails? |
60238 | Cave?'' |
60238 | Could he do so? |
60238 | Could he maintain his action? |
60238 | Could he maintain his action? |
60238 | Could he recover? |
60238 | Could it do so? |
60238 | Could she succeed? |
60238 | Could the defendant avail himself of it? |
60238 | From what date should interest be allowed, if at all? |
60238 | How can the place be filled? |
60238 | How could A test his title, B refusing to bring an action? |
60238 | How drawn? |
60238 | How is an issue of fact created in a lawsuit? |
60238 | How many incorporators must there be to incorporate a company in New Jersey? |
60238 | How recorded? |
60238 | How should service of summons and complaint be made in a case where an affidavit of merits is desired? |
60238 | How should the answer be construed? |
60238 | If so, how should he proceed and what must he show? |
60238 | In what case and under what circumstances can a writ of error issue directly from the Court of Errors and Appeals to the Court of Oyer and Terminer? |
60238 | Is our transportation industry to be ruined by taxes and rate control at one end and cost of labor at the other? |
60238 | Is the Constitution of the United States a worn- out old one- horse shay, ready to drop to pieces all at once? |
60238 | Is the Senate a back number? |
60238 | Is the objection good? |
60238 | Is the peaceful rule by majority to be exchanged for Bolshevik dictatorship? |
60238 | Or will they, already talking again of a scrap of paper, straightway begin to prepare for a fresh coup twenty- five years or so hence? |
60238 | Peal after peal: some good news: what is it? |
60238 | Rawle, will you give the plaintiff''s argument?'' |
60238 | Should he divulge this fact to B, who has had nothing to do with his employment? |
60238 | Should he recover? |
60238 | Should the firm divide its fees with the clerk? |
60238 | Should the motion be granted? |
60238 | Should the motion be granted? |
60238 | Should this evidence be admitted? |
60238 | Should this evidence be received? |
60238 | The clerk:"Why did you not answer?" |
60238 | To whom did her real and personal estate go on her death? |
60238 | To whom did the title to the land and to whom do the bonds descend? |
60238 | Was he bound to do so? |
60238 | Was he liable? |
60238 | Was he liable? |
60238 | Was he liable? |
60238 | Was his claim good? |
60238 | Was it a valid sale? |
60238 | Was it correct? |
60238 | Was it valid as to the chattels against creditors of the company? |
60238 | Was she entitled to the same? |
60238 | Was the Court right? |
60238 | Was the judgment binding upon the firm? |
60238 | Was the principal liable for these acts of the agent? |
60238 | Was the ruling correct? |
60238 | Was this charge correct? |
60238 | Was this contrary to the Bulk Sales Act of 1915? |
60238 | Was this legal? |
60238 | Was this legal? |
60238 | Was this possible? |
60238 | Was this proper? |
60238 | Was this ruling correct? |
60238 | What are the requirements to make an instrument negotiable? |
60238 | What facts should appear in the certificate and how should it be executed? |
60238 | What is the difference between the relief granted in equity in cases of mutual mistake and of the mistake of one party? |
60238 | What is the rule in New Jersey? |
60238 | What kind of action could M institute against D? |
60238 | What should the Court do? |
60238 | What should the Court do? |
60238 | What should the Court do? |
60238 | What should the Court do? |
60238 | What we want to know is:"What''s the law?"'' |
60238 | What would you advise your client to do? |
60238 | Where may the venue be laid in a transitory action? |
60238 | Which has priority? |
60238 | Will peace last? |
60238 | Will the Germans respect their promises and fulfill them? |
60238 | Will the treaty finally be ratified? |
60238 | _ Why not_? |
36045 | ( 2) What is to be done unto them? |
36045 | And what did he suggest? |
36045 | And what was that? |
36045 | And why not? |
36045 | But how did thi''first grandfeyther get it? |
36045 | But,says my hopeful friend Joseph,"what is the meaning of a chap filing his own petition? |
36045 | Did they, now? |
36045 | How do I know it is yours, and who gave it you? |
36045 | My dear, simple fellow, you surely do not think the clever ones of the earth who look after your interests have not thought all that out? 36045 My good man,"said my lord,"do you know you are trespassing?" |
36045 | Vot vas it all about? |
36045 | Was there no agreement between you? |
36045 | Well, wot of it? |
36045 | What case was that? |
36045 | What has it all got to do with you, Joseph? |
36045 | What right has he to bring me here? |
36045 | Which nation? |
36045 | Why? |
36045 | ''Recreation?'' |
36045 | 1512 do but run into debt? |
36045 | 1512 of 1911 and his like? |
36045 | 1512 of 1911? |
36045 | :"Does a successful husband always have to pay his wife''s costs?" |
36045 | And I''m sure she loved her old man-- so what must she have thought of us and our Act of Parliament? |
36045 | And surely we may ask, Why should this miserable cheat flourish among decent citizens of to- day? |
36045 | And what has come of it all? |
36045 | And what makes these things possible among our poor people? |
36045 | Are we not here in the face of a real danger to the nation? |
36045 | Are you quite satisfied? |
36045 | B. battering C. D. to the intent that whichever knocked the stuffing out of the other gained the verdict? |
36045 | But why should public- houses be what they are? |
36045 | Can not she trade in her own name? |
36045 | For if the rich have by their laws made a mess of the alehouse, what about the other public- house-- the workhouse? |
36045 | For what is a General Mixed Workhouse? |
36045 | For what is"bias"? |
36045 | Have I said enough, my dear friend? |
36045 | How are they to obtain witnesses? |
36045 | How often, too, do men and women buy watches to pawn them for drink or a day at the races? |
36045 | If you ca n''t''ave a dorg, how can you keep them fellows out of the house?" |
36045 | Is not she a married woman? |
36045 | It is very true, Hall, you might say,''Where was all the money to come from to pay for all this?'' |
36045 | It may be that such is the law; but if it is what does it mean? |
36045 | Meanwhile, why should not direct representatives of the agricultural labourer be placed upon the bench if we are not to abolish Dogberry altogether? |
36045 | Now what worries me is, why should the State keep Courts going for men of this class? |
36045 | Or is there some subtle essence in the law that of necessity destroys the favourable microbes that promote peace and goodwill among men? |
36045 | Should not a man or woman be made to trade in his or her own name? |
36045 | So I said if the law do n''t let''i m bite''em, what''s the use of the dorg? |
36045 | The rich man''s public- house is so regulated-- and what is the result? |
36045 | The wolves and bisons? |
36045 | These being the facts, why does the law side with the inappropriate knave who preys upon the harmless necessary fool? |
36045 | They have obviously no interest in ideal public houses-- and why should they? |
36045 | Vot is the matter with you?" |
36045 | What could the proprietor do? |
36045 | What has become of that closing time which, if overstepped by the poor, means police court for the criminals and loss of license to the innkeeper? |
36045 | What is this but an evil and ruinous form of moneylending? |
36045 | What match are confiding folk like these for the lying scallywags who tout their inferior wares round the streets? |
36045 | What wages can satisfy such an orgy of drapery as that? |
36045 | What, then, is to be done? |
36045 | When shall we find time to ease these heavy burdens of the poor and let the oppressed go free? |
36045 | Who of God''s creatures had a right to live in it? |
36045 | Whose land_ was_ this of Britain? |
36045 | Why did it fail? |
36045 | Why is all this to be swept away?" |
36045 | Why is it to be supposed that any different result will be arrived at when the working classes are no longer tempted by a false system of credit? |
36045 | Why is such a person punished? |
36045 | Why may not the working man have similar entertainment at the Pig and Whistle? |
36045 | Why should it be altered, especially as there is no great demand for change, and change is in itself an evil thing? |
36045 | Why should n''t I file my petition?" |
36045 | Why should n''t I go bankrupt?" |
36045 | Why should not every hamlet have its Village Plowden to brighten life on the country side? |
36045 | Why should not lawyers set an example of self- sacrifice and unselfishness? |
36045 | Why should they help the Devil to make his house sweet and attractive, and make the path easier for the poor sinner who thirsts after beer? |
36045 | Why should you expect in him a super- instinct towards futurist sociology? |
36045 | Will you? |
36045 | Will you? |
36045 | Wo n''t you? |
36045 | Wo n''t you? |
36045 | Would he get anyone to advise him on evidence or settle the indorsement on his writ? |
36045 | You ask a debtor when he comes before you on a second instalment of a debt:"But you managed to pay the first instalment?" |
36045 | and what I wanted to arsk you was, may my dorg bite''em within reason or did I''ave to pay five pounds''cause''e mauled''i m too much?" |
36045 | he cried;"do you mean to say that the companies and the men have agreed upon you as chairman?" |
36045 | on to a small debt like this for costs? |
12564 | Am I in the road to Stockton, and can I get there tonight? |
12564 | Are you a preacher? |
12564 | Can I get something to eat? 12564 Can you wait until I preach my sermon?" |
12564 | Did you ever get your free- papers? |
12564 | Did you ever shoot an Indian? |
12564 | Did you know there was quite a quarrel about you this morning? |
12564 | Do n''t you wish you were a Kentuckian? |
12564 | Do you mean Dick? |
12564 | Do you mean the literal restoration of the Jews to Palestine? |
12564 | Do you think a young girl of twenty could love an old man like me? |
12564 | Excuse me, my old friend, if I ask if you do not, as a dying man, have some thoughts about God and eternity? |
12564 | Hard at it, are you, uncle? |
12564 | How are you today, Dan? |
12564 | How are you today? |
12564 | How do you feel about changing worlds, my old friend? |
12564 | How is his health? |
12564 | How long will it take you? |
12564 | How was that? |
12564 | How? |
12564 | I was brought up partly in Virginia too? |
12564 | Is he dead? |
12564 | Is there any hope of her restoration? |
12564 | Me take um? |
12564 | Missus, who is yer kinfolks back dar in Virginny, any way? |
12564 | Of what persuasion are you?! |
12564 | Shall I kneel here and pray with you? |
12564 | So you were corralled last night? |
12564 | So you were corralled last night? |
12564 | Wbar''bouts, in Virginny? |
12564 | Were any of the women killed? |
12564 | What do you mean? |
12564 | What for? |
12564 | What has become of B--? |
12564 | What is lead? |
12564 | What is the matter here? |
12564 | What is the matter? |
12564 | What is the matter? |
12564 | What is the meaning of that remark? |
12564 | What was the name of the proprietor of the house? |
12564 | What''s the matter? |
12564 | Where''s you from, Massa? |
12564 | Who hath defied God and escaped? |
12564 | Why so? 12564 Would he let me talk to him?" |
12564 | Yes-- is there any thing we can do for you? |
12564 | Yes; what of it? |
12564 | You got grub-- coche carne? |
12564 | You makee Christian newspaper? 12564 About four o''clock in the afternoon Dick''s mistress sat down by me, and, after a pause, remarked:Do you know that tomorrow is Christmas- day?" |
12564 | And does the Wisest Worker take Quick human hearts, instead of stone, And hew and carve them one by one, Nor heed the pangs with which they break? |
12564 | And more: if but creation''s waste, Would he have given us sense to yearn For the perfection none can earn, And hope the fuller life to taste? |
12564 | Are the real queens as happy? |
12564 | But what was the Emperor after? |
12564 | But what will God do with them hereafter? |
12564 | Can I get shelter with you for the night?" |
12564 | Did he also pray? |
12564 | Did such a dream cast a momentary glamour over a life spent in raking among the muck- heaps? |
12564 | Did this sordid old man yearn for pure human love amid his millions? |
12564 | Did you ever hear a sweeter voice than that?" |
12564 | Do sane men and women ever commit suicide? |
12564 | Do you see that tall pumping- apparatus, with water- tank on top, in the rear of the house?" |
12564 | Doctor, God never gave me up, and I never ceased to yearn for his mercy and love, even in the darkest season of my unhappy life?" |
12564 | Eternity? |
12564 | Fixing his stern and fiery gaze upon her, and knitting his great bushy eyebrows, he thundered the question:"Sister, do you ever pray?" |
12564 | Have you not noted these malign coincidences in life? |
12564 | He opened and read it as we drove slowly along, and as he did so he brightened up, and turning to Henry, said:"Henry, were you ever a slave?" |
12564 | His mother, who bent over him with a pale face, noticed the look, and almost screamed:"''Tommy, here is your mother-- don''t you know me?'' |
12564 | His text was, Who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? |
12564 | How can I live? |
12564 | How can she give up her child? |
12564 | How long, how long? |
12564 | I said:"What yer want wid me?" |
12564 | I want to see him once more; where will I be likely to find him?'' |
12564 | If the inevitable why? |
12564 | Is it in the circumstances, the external conditions? |
12564 | Kinneth?" |
12564 | One night I preached from the text, Should it be according to thy mind? |
12564 | Rome ground them under her iron heel, and where is the empire of the Caesars? |
12564 | She received me with a mixture of mock dignity and smiling condescension, and surveying herself admiringly, she asked:"How do you like my dress?" |
12564 | Spain smote the Jew, and where is her glory? |
12564 | Strange? |
12564 | The Assyrian smote the Jew, and where is the proud Assyrian Empire? |
12564 | The General spoke:"Did you know, sir, that I am perhaps the most attentive reader of your paper to be found in California?" |
12564 | The words were something like these, but who could picture Baker''s oratory? |
12564 | Was this the charm that drew him forth so early? |
12564 | What do you think?" |
12564 | What do you think?" |
12564 | What does God say? |
12564 | What have I done, that it should be proposed to send me to the Legislature? |
12564 | What have I done?" |
12564 | What mysteries of being lie beyond that sapphire sea? |
12564 | What reason has anybody to think I am that sort of a man? |
12564 | What was the mystery? |
12564 | What were her thoughts as she sat there looking so pitifully up into the silent, far- off heavens? |
12564 | What wonders shall burst upon the vision when this mortal shall put on immortality? |
12564 | What''s dat? |
12564 | Where are you from?" |
12564 | Where is happiness, after all? |
12564 | Who says man is not a fallen, broken creature, and that there is not a devil at hand to tempt him? |
12564 | Who that ever had a real friend does not? |
12564 | Why call us back to a world where we lost all, and in quitting which we risked all? |
12564 | Why not give it up?" |
12564 | Will ye take the turkey, and my thanks wid it?" |
12564 | Would you like some eggs? |
12564 | You talkee Jesus? |
12564 | You will pray for me?" |
12564 | do n''t you hear her? |
12564 | is this what thy creature man was made for? |
12564 | once or twice, and here he would come, stretching his long legs, and saying,"Oot,""oot,""oot"( is that the way to spell it?). |
12564 | or, is it in the mind? |
44800 | How is that possible,says he,"since these arts were invented by Trismegistus?" |
44800 | Amongst good laws, one of the best things was, that everybody was taught to observe them( by whom?). |
44800 | And have I not experience on my side? |
44800 | And if mankind is not competent to judge for itself, why do they talk so much about universal suffrage? |
44800 | And is it not clear, that the interest of all being one and the same, some would act without much inconvenience to the others? |
44800 | And what are these two questions? |
44800 | And what does this prove? |
44800 | And what has resulted from it? |
44800 | And what is liberty? |
44800 | And what is the remedy proposed? |
44800 | And what part have men to act in all this? |
44800 | And who is to give the impulse to power? |
44800 | And why is incapacity a reason for exclusion? |
44800 | And, in all sincerity, can anything more be required at the hands of the law? |
44800 | And, in fact, what is the political work that we are endeavoring to promote? |
44800 | Are age, sex, and judicial condemnations the only conditions to which incapacity is to be attached? |
44800 | Are not our persons and property in fact, at its disposal? |
44800 | Are not rights equal? |
44800 | Are political rights under discussion? |
44800 | Are the people to be forever led about by the nose? |
44800 | Are they not arrived at maturity? |
44800 | Are they not in a state to judge for themselves? |
44800 | Are we not living in an age of enlightenment? |
44800 | Are we not told that liberty is competition? |
44800 | But are we not assured by Mr. Considerant that liberty leads fatally to monopoly? |
44800 | But how is it that Mr. Montalembert does not see that he is placing himself in a vicious circle? |
44800 | But how is it to be distinguished? |
44800 | But what does it do? |
44800 | But what is this incline? |
44800 | But what plunder did he mean? |
44800 | By whose intervention is society to give tools of labor to those who do not possess them? |
44800 | Can the law, whose necessary sanction is force, be reasonably employed upon anything beyond securing to every one his right? |
44800 | Can the people be mistaken? |
44800 | Do not the legislators and their agents form a part of the human race? |
44800 | Do they consider that they are composed of different materials from the rest of mankind? |
44800 | Do they not know their own interest? |
44800 | Does it follow that if the law confines itself to securing to us the free exercise of our faculties, our faculties will be paralyzed? |
44800 | Does it follow that if we are free, we shall cease to act? |
44800 | Does it follow that if we do not receive an impulse from the law, we shall receive no impulse at all? |
44800 | Does it not lead to an abyss? |
44800 | Does not Mr. Louis Blanc tell us again that competition{ 45} leads to monopoly, and that, for the same reason, cheapness leads to exorbitant prices? |
44800 | For what are our faculties, but the extension of our personality? |
44800 | For who will dare to say that force has been given to us, not to defend our rights, but to annihilate the equal rights of our brethren? |
44800 | From whom is the State to obtain them? |
44800 | Have they not acquired their rights at the cost of effort and sacrifice? |
44800 | Have they not given sufficient proof of intelligence and wisdom? |
44800 | How has this perversion of law been accomplished? |
44800 | How is this argument to be answered? |
44800 | How will you place it under the power of your tribunals, your gendarmes, and of your prisons? |
44800 | How, in fact, can we imagine force encroaching upon the liberty of citizens without infringing upon justice, and so acting against its proper aim? |
44800 | In point of fact, who are the capable? |
44800 | In the one it was wished( by whom?) |
44800 | In what does the impulse that power gives to society consist? |
44800 | In what does this power consist? |
44800 | Is a legislator to be chosen? |
44800 | Is it any wonder that every failure threatens to cause a revolution? |
44800 | Is it for the law to make choice of one amongst so many fancies, and to make use of the public force in its service? |
44800 | Is it likely that it would compromise that greatest of advantages, the public peace? |
44800 | Is it likely that the enfranchised classes would be very jealous of their privilege? |
44800 | Is it likely that the excluded classes would not quietly wait for their turn? |
44800 | Is it to be supposed that Nature has not bestowed upon me sufficient imagination to invent a Utopia too? |
44800 | Is not justice right? |
44800 | Is not the law omnipotent? |
44800 | Is there a man or a class who would dare to claim the right of putting himself in the place of the people, of deciding and of acting for them? |
44800 | It is the following: What is law? |
44800 | Liberty of association? |
44800 | Liberty of labor? |
44800 | Moreover, every profession had a district assigned to it( by whom?).... |
44800 | Now socialism, thus defined, and forming a doctrinal body, what other war would you make against it than a{ 15} war of doctrine? |
44800 | Once on this incline, will society enjoy something like liberty? |
44800 | That competition tends to drain the sources of consumption, and diverts production to a destructive activity? |
44800 | That of the machine, which is set in motion; or rather, are they not the brute matter of which the machine is made? |
44800 | The Socialists say, since the law organizes justice, why should it not organize labor, instruction, and religion? |
44800 | The liberty of exchange? |
44800 | Upon what principle is this exclusion founded? |
44800 | We will give a quotation from Bossuet: One of the things which was the most strongly impressed( by whom?) |
44800 | What are its limits? |
44800 | What is its domain? |
44800 | What is to give it this impulse? |
44800 | What ought it to be? |
44800 | What sort of liberty should be allowed to men? |
44800 | What then? |
44800 | What will you do then? |
44800 | What would be the consequences of such a perversion? |
44800 | What would become of its dignity if it were entrusted to the disciples of Rousseau? |
44800 | What, then, is law? |
44800 | When does plunder cease, then? |
44800 | Where is the law to stop? |
44800 | Where will you stop? |
44800 | Where, in fact, does the prerogative of the legislator stop? |
44800 | Which are the happiest, the most moral, and the most peaceable nations? |
44800 | Who is to give education and tools of labor? |
44800 | Why are they prevented? |
44800 | Why is this? |
44800 | Why, then, does not society go there of itself? |
44800 | Why? |
44800 | You have the gall to call that fine? |
44800 | and that competition, according to Mr. Louis Blanc, is a system of extermination for the people, and of ruination for trade? |
44800 | and what is property, but an extension of our faculties? |
44800 | is more than probable, there will be a no less inevitable revolution? |
40851 | Is there any alternative,says this printer,"between an abandonment of the constitution and resistance?" |
40851 | What other form of government, indeed, can so well deserve our esteem and love? 40851 relying with perfect confidence in the Executive"--is this the language of the constitution, as it respects any man? |
40851 | 218; amendment will defeat the bill, 218; shall the territory remain defenceless? |
40851 | 453; all the evidence necessary should be obtained, 453; extraordinary resolution-- was the President clerk of the court? |
40851 | 679; what evidence that the Intendant is not authorized by the Spanish or French Government? |
40851 | 681; what is the state of things? |
40851 | 69; this country not equal to support a navy, 69; how can such a navy, be manned? |
40851 | A question was then taken in the following words: Does the matter so communicated require secrecy? |
40851 | Admitting it, I asked then, and I ask now, with what propriety it could be used, even in that sense, in the resolution referred to? |
40851 | Admitting there was such a law, what could the House do? |
40851 | Admitting they could hold it, what security would they have for their commerce? |
40851 | After knowing these facts, will gentlemen have the hardihood to call this a hasty measure? |
40851 | Again, if such a Navy were created, how was it to be manned? |
40851 | Against whom they were to be employed? |
40851 | Against whom, then, are we to arm? |
40851 | Although they may differ in political opinion, as many of us do, is that any reason we should attempt to destroy their reputation? |
40851 | Although this all might be mere matter of opinion, would it not come within the meaning of the law in question? |
40851 | Am I so to consider it? |
40851 | And are gentlemen to be here accused for exercising the constitutional right of election according to the conviction of their own judgments? |
40851 | And are not the emigrations composed of such as require the prompt assistance of the law, to preserve among them regularity? |
40851 | And are not these men property? |
40851 | And are the maxims of experience to become false, when applied to our fate? |
40851 | And are the people to be told that this is a trifling question? |
40851 | And are they pledged for the payment of the public debt? |
40851 | And are they, therefore, in this House to be confounded with each other? |
40851 | And are we not in war? |
40851 | And are we to be told from the house- tops, that the only use of elections is to promote, not public good, but public mischief? |
40851 | And can it be justifiable in the eyes of men, who believe there is nothing so precious or important as national honor? |
40851 | And can there be a greater, a more patriotic purpose than this? |
40851 | And could a potent State be alarmed by the unfounded claim of a single person? |
40851 | And do the citizens of the United States, he asked, wish their First Magistrate to be placed in this situation? |
40851 | And does not the doctrine of our opponents prove that, at every change of administration, the number of your judges are probably to be doubled? |
40851 | And during the time that Holland was separated from the dominion of Spain, was war declared in consequence of any nation trading with Holland? |
40851 | And has England gained nothing by the war? |
40851 | And here, sir, let it be asked, why should a Government that means well, or is confident in its uprightness and ability, ever fear the press? |
40851 | And here, sir, let me ask, are not these privileges all that are necessary? |
40851 | And how can the truth of things which can not be proved by evidence, be determined by evidence? |
40851 | And how has he proved this? |
40851 | And how is it to be effected? |
40851 | And if granted, why not grant it without assigning reasons, as well as with assigning them? |
40851 | And if so, could any thing afford a more lasting cause for war than an act of this kind? |
40851 | And if the money is to be raised by taxes, to what objects can we turn our attention? |
40851 | And if they are, does that committee mean to impose upon this House, as upon the people of some parts of the Union? |
40851 | And if they can hear in them, can not the stenographers also? |
40851 | And if they could delegate the power of raising an army to the PRESIDENT, why not do the same with respect to the power of raising taxes? |
40851 | And if they have no objection, why go into a Committee of the Whole; which, if gone into, must be with closed doors? |
40851 | And if they violate the law, where can we apply for redress but to our courts of justice? |
40851 | And if this be important in the general course of things, is it not, under present circumstances, indispensable? |
40851 | And if to either sum, can we with propriety dispense with the internal taxes? |
40851 | And in these circumstances, said he, are the people of the United States to be led on from step to step, until they are irrevocably involved in war? |
40851 | And is not the tenure as completely impaired thereby, as if the other had been taken away also? |
40851 | And is not this most proper? |
40851 | And is the irritation consequent upon the laying of taxes worn off? |
40851 | And may they not, instead of giving their judges two thousand dollars a year, give them two hundred thousand? |
40851 | And must the Executive in every such case make a new appointment? |
40851 | And now that we have gained it, shall we fall from our honor? |
40851 | And on the question on the second division, to wit: Whether so much as provides that the third article shall be expunged, shall stand? |
40851 | And ought a man to be permitted to slander the Government and not an individual? |
40851 | And ought his descendants to be more hardly dealt with because their father had the generosity and magnanimity not to make the demand? |
40851 | And shall not we, as a nation, thank him for keeping us from a state of war? |
40851 | And shall not we, with our great and increasing resources, and the peculiar advantages of our situation, be able to effect still more? |
40851 | And shall we hesitate? |
40851 | And shall we now, when there is no right reason for it, lay hold of the public Treasury, and lavish away$ 14,000? |
40851 | And shall we, for this reason, monopolize a revenue upon it? |
40851 | And then, Is there a Seminary so near the spot contemplated, as to make it hostile in this House to encourage this University? |
40851 | And though we were a commercial Republic, was it not necessary to take care of the agricultural interest? |
40851 | And upon what terms are we to cope with the powers of Europe with respect to any navy? |
40851 | And was Rigaud punished by France for thus exercising his power or not? |
40851 | And was it to be considered, he asked, that they enjoyed the powers committed to them in their own right, as barons of empire, as sovereign despots? |
40851 | And was that salary, he asked, near so valuable now as it was when fixed? |
40851 | And was this, he asked, a subject of regret? |
40851 | And what are these cases? |
40851 | And what courts? |
40851 | And what have they got to do? |
40851 | And what have they said? |
40851 | And what object or consideration more pleasing than this can be presented to the human mind? |
40851 | And what objection could there be to the inquiry? |
40851 | And what was all this power that so much alarmed the gentleman from Massachusetts? |
40851 | And what was the object? |
40851 | And what will be the result of this? |
40851 | And what would be the remedy if he should refuse to comply? |
40851 | And what, he asked, did these expenses amount to? |
40851 | And what, in either case, would become of this boasted protection of the people against themselves? |
40851 | And when we all agree in this, whence the necessity of calling up the animosities of party? |
40851 | And whether help can be extended by law to the one, and consistently refused to the other? |
40851 | And whether it had not been in the contemplation of that gentleman, as well as others, to pay as much as they could yearly? |
40851 | And whether none of them in the Legislature never voted for the resolutions about the western land, nor about post- offices and post- roads? |
40851 | And whether the Executive is not hastening it? |
40851 | And who are the judges? |
40851 | And why is all this to be done? |
40851 | And why shall our judges not ride the circuits? |
40851 | And why were they told this? |
40851 | And will gentlemen act upon this as a sufficient reason for their conduct? |
40851 | And would any gentleman say it was not right to defend our vessels against pirates? |
40851 | And would any one say that it would be proper to rise without providing a military defence for the country? |
40851 | And would it not be extraordinary, he asked, if, before they received these statements, they were to appoint a committee of inquiry? |
40851 | And would not the opening of intercourse with such a place, by relieving the distresses of France, defeat the original intention of the law? |
40851 | And would this, he asked, be doing honor to the Republican Government? |
40851 | And would you take up arms with a millstone hanging around your neck? |
40851 | And yet, after being told of these designs, shall we sit with our arms folded, and make no defence? |
40851 | And, because Congress had a right to enact such a law, would gentlemen say it was for the benefit of trade? |
40851 | And, if Mr. Gerry had powers to treat, how could it be criminal to say that he might treat? |
40851 | And, on motion to agree thereto, a motion was made for the previous question, to wit:"Shall the main question be now put?" |
40851 | And, on the question on the first division, to wit: Whether so much as provides that the second article shall be expunged, shall stand? |
40851 | And, on the question on the fourth division, to wit: Whether that part shall stand which provides a limitation of time to its duration? |
40851 | And, on the question on the third division, to wit: Whether that part shall stand which restrains it from operating against former treaties? |
40851 | And, on the question,"Shall these words stand?" |
40851 | And, on the question,"Will the Senate advise and consent to the adoption of this article?" |
40851 | And, said Mr. G., do we really rely upon this? |
40851 | And, whether to deny it, in this instance, would not be to interfere with that provision of the constitution? |
40851 | Any thing to ruin the country? |
40851 | Are a majority of this House so degraded, so mean, so destitute of honor or morality, as to act at the nod of a President? |
40851 | Are gentlemen disposed to wage war in support of this principle? |
40851 | Are gentlemen then afraid to trust to the discretion of the President? |
40851 | Are gentlemen unwilling to indemnify for such losses? |
40851 | Are gentlemen unwilling to trust themselves, lest their own consciences should compel them to an act of justice? |
40851 | Are gentlemen''s opinions and language thus to be circumscribed? |
40851 | Are honorable gentlemen prepared to accept peace on such terms? |
40851 | Are not its members acting under a responsibility to public opinion, which can and will check their aberrations from duty? |
40851 | Are not the jurisdictions of those courts separate and distinct? |
40851 | Are not those who voted against it fairly to be considered as enemies to the law? |
40851 | Are not, said Mr. G., these papers important to the House? |
40851 | Are not, said Mr. O., the galleries constructed for the express purpose of hearing? |
40851 | Are our arguments to fly from the mouths of our cannon? |
40851 | Are our means equal to hers? |
40851 | Are there any words in that instrument which give the President expressly the power of removing any officer at pleasure? |
40851 | Are there words in the English language more explicit? |
40851 | Are these approaches to revolution and Jacobinic domination, to be observed with the eye of meek submission? |
40851 | Are they apprehensive lest he should communicate that which is improper? |
40851 | Are they not intended for the good people of the United States? |
40851 | Are they paid exclusively by the wealthy and the luxurious part of the community? |
40851 | Are they prepared to repeal the act to which I now refer? |
40851 | Are they willing to let it rest, and lose it? |
40851 | Are we bound hand and foot that we must be witnesses of these deadly thrusts at our liberty? |
40851 | Are we never to be clear of these alarms? |
40851 | Are we then to resort to the ultimate reason of kings? |
40851 | Are we to be the unresisting spectators of these exertions to destroy all that we hold dear? |
40851 | Are we to be told by the gentleman from Virginia, there is no occasion for this call; that we have information enough? |
40851 | Are we to form an exception to the general principles of nature, and to all the examples of history? |
40851 | Are we to legislate for succeeding ages? |
40851 | Are we to see all these acts practised against the repose of our country, and remain passive? |
40851 | Are we to suppose he is unwilling to inform us what they are? |
40851 | Are we to suppose the Executive has not been vigilant in ascertaining the circumstances attending this event? |
40851 | Are we valiant? |
40851 | Are we wise? |
40851 | Are you certain that they will wait the end of negotiation? |
40851 | As to the State which he represented, he would ask if the first blood that had been spilled after that shed at Boston was not in North Carolina? |
40851 | At a time when the enemy''s vessels are within our own jurisdiction, are we to withhold the necessary instructions to the commanders of our vessels? |
40851 | At that day, did we hastily go to war? |
40851 | Attacked and insulted as we had been, do we now, asked Mr. D., call for war? |
40851 | Because they have been once injured with impunity, shall we turn our backs upon them for ever? |
40851 | Because, as our opponents would fain have it believed, we are insensible to the vast interest affected by the obstruction of the Mississippi? |
40851 | Besides, has he the power to do so, in the manner then suggested by the gentleman from Virginia by taking possession of New Orleans? |
40851 | Besides, said Mr. B., were the rates of compensation, when first established, established upon this principle? |
40851 | Besides, said Mr. G., could it be expected that six or ten frigates could convoy all our vessels? |
40851 | Besides, what is the population of the Southern States? |
40851 | Bound to obey what law? |
40851 | Brought to this dilemma, said he, which side will you take? |
40851 | But I ask gentlemen to be candid, and tell me whether they are at this time equally divided? |
40851 | But an extreme case is put; a bill of attainder is passed; are the judges to support the constitution or the law? |
40851 | But are printers at liberty to tell lies about our transactions? |
40851 | But are we always to act by precedent? |
40851 | But are you not the guardians of the public treasure? |
40851 | But by what energy is the constitution to be destroyed? |
40851 | But can it be necessary to give this Senate any other assurance than my word? |
40851 | But can liberty, such as we understand and enjoy, exist in societies where the few only have property, and the many are both ignorant and licentious? |
40851 | But can you examine each distinct case? |
40851 | But could America lay up her ships, and say she would open her ports to all nations? |
40851 | But did the framers of the constitution stop here? |
40851 | But did the gentleman suppose that a war with France could be flattering to pride or ambition? |
40851 | But does this bill, said Mr. S., contemplate any such thing? |
40851 | But gentlemen say, where are your expenses? |
40851 | But had Spain a right to make this cession without our consent? |
40851 | But he would ask if this were the case, if it would not lead directly to war? |
40851 | But how are these objects effected? |
40851 | But how did the case really stand? |
40851 | But how did we vote on the motion for agreeing to the following clause? |
40851 | But how is that gentleman to have foundation for his reflections until a bill is drawn? |
40851 | But how shall we account for the exception which is now exhibited to this hitherto received maxim? |
40851 | But how was this law adopted? |
40851 | But how? |
40851 | But how? |
40851 | But if the evidence was not reported, how could he say that all the witnesses might not again be called before the House? |
40851 | But if the gentleman insisted opinions could not be false, how would he get rid of the conclusion? |
40851 | But if, on the contrary, they coolly looked into the petition, and reported thereon, would it not stop the mouths of these people? |
40851 | But if, sir, they have offended against the constitution or laws of the country, why are they not impeached? |
40851 | But is it unconstitutional to assign new duties to officers already existing? |
40851 | But is this Legislative power in Great Britain usurped by construction? |
40851 | But is this the peace which we ought to seek? |
40851 | But no, said the gentlemen,"We will not have it examined into, because it will make us out to be as_ black_ as the petitioners themselves?" |
40851 | But of what avail will this be, when Congress may take it away at any moment? |
40851 | But ought this to be said of the subject under consideration? |
40851 | But should we persist under such a possibility of mistake, what do we risk? |
40851 | But suppose it was now in possession of a foreign power, would Georgia attempt to drive them from it? |
40851 | But suppose, said Mr. S., this independence were to take place, would all the danger to this country actually take place which has been stated? |
40851 | But suppose, sir, you agree to divide these States, where is the boundary to be? |
40851 | But supposing there are yet a number of them, what better use can our public armed vessels be put to than to go after them? |
40851 | But the gentleman from South Carolina says, this is the cheapest mode of defence; but does the gentleman prove this? |
40851 | But the question arises, whether a violation of the treaties on the part of France is, of itself, sufficient for setting them aside? |
40851 | But this settlement is now objected to, and what is to be done? |
40851 | But was it necessary these persons should at once become entitled to take a part in the concerns of our Government? |
40851 | But was this the sense of the country? |
40851 | But were they always to expect to have a PRESIDENT who would give his services to his country? |
40851 | But what have we to do with their domestic broils? |
40851 | But what inducement will there be to moneyed men to lend money, except a permanent revenue be made the security? |
40851 | But what is the fact? |
40851 | But what security have we for the truth of the declaration? |
40851 | But what was all this to the United States? |
40851 | But what was now to be done? |
40851 | But what was the issue of this negotiation? |
40851 | But what was the issue of this proposition? |
40851 | But what was the result of experience? |
40851 | But what were the terms upon which they proposed to cede it? |
40851 | But what, said Mr. G., is the language of this section? |
40851 | But what, sir, did the gentleman mean by his X, Y, Z? |
40851 | But when? |
40851 | But where did that gentleman learn that Holland has no navy? |
40851 | But where is the evil complained of? |
40851 | But where was the blame, if any could attach? |
40851 | But where was the crime, the offence, or the impropriety, of the conduct ascribed to the Executive, if it had been adopted? |
40851 | But wherefore this exhibition of a zeal so inordinate as to arrogate to itself all sensibility to the national welfare? |
40851 | But who will say that the crew of a British frigate on the high seas, are within the peace of the United States? |
40851 | But why have they trusted to the imaginary collision of sentiment between the Governor and Intendant of New Orleans? |
40851 | But why is she in that situation? |
40851 | But why speak of British inhumanity, if not to embarrass this bill? |
40851 | But why was the army mentioned on this occasion, unless to fore- warn us of the fate which awaits them, and to tell us that their days are numbered? |
40851 | But why, he asked, do these men come here in a body? |
40851 | But why, say gentlemen, fix precisely one Supreme Court, and leave the rest to Legislative discretion? |
40851 | But why? |
40851 | But will it be pretended that a person can commit misprision of treason who can not commit treason itself? |
40851 | But will the House thus be acted upon? |
40851 | But will the gentleman say, that whenever we ask information, we conclude upon measures? |
40851 | But will this alter the justness of my position? |
40851 | But would this have been right? |
40851 | But would this have done? |
40851 | But, as this is not the case, as we are only asked to permit its encouragement, by allowing these people to receive benefactions, how can we refuse? |
40851 | But, he asked if the gentleman from Virginia knew the reason why this amount to France appeared so large? |
40851 | But, he asked if the loss we sustained for the want of a naval power could be estimated? |
40851 | But, he would ask them, if, independent of land with its improvements, they possessed any other species of property which could not be eluded? |
40851 | But, in any view, are the sins of the former judges to be fastened upon the new Judicial system? |
40851 | But, it is said, will you suffer a printer to abuse his fellow- citizens with impunity, ascribing his conduct to the very worst of motives? |
40851 | But, said he, shall we fear that we shall be called upon to pay a few more just debts? |
40851 | But, say gentlemen, where will you find revenue? |
40851 | But, sir, are the Secretaries unworthy of confidence? |
40851 | But, sir, are we not as deeply interested in the true exposition of the constitution, as the judges can be? |
40851 | But, supposing the law constitutional, is the crime an infamous one? |
40851 | But, taking things as they are, what course, on this point, is most fair and tolerant? |
40851 | But, to return, was there any thing criminal in that paragraph? |
40851 | But, upon what ground, said Mr. G., do the advocates of this report prove that 11 is not three- fourths of 14? |
40851 | But, what was the fact? |
40851 | But, why had it been so? |
40851 | But, why two, Mr. B. queried, rather than three? |
40851 | By the laws of what nation would the contract be governed? |
40851 | By what are those armies to be opposed? |
40851 | By what authority can any court render such a judgment? |
40851 | By what inspiration could the gentleman form a judgment now? |
40851 | By what law then would such a contract be governed? |
40851 | By what means was this to be accomplished? |
40851 | By whom has this outrage been offered? |
40851 | Can I, said Mr. J., represent as effectually Massachusetts, or Vermont, as Pennsylvania? |
40851 | Can any other meaning be applied to the words"from time to time?" |
40851 | Can any thing essential, any thing more than mere ornament and decoration, be added to this by robes and diamonds? |
40851 | Can gentlemen hear these things and lie quietly on their pillows? |
40851 | Can he commit and imprison without a trial? |
40851 | Can he prove that £10,000,000 sterling is only the third part of the expense of defence, as he says? |
40851 | Can he then be trusted with the government of others? |
40851 | Can it be any thing more than the right of uttering and doing what is not injurious to others? |
40851 | Can it be done without power? |
40851 | Can it be expected that any country will be peopled as fast, from a nation at the distance of three thousand miles, as our Western country has been? |
40851 | Can it be possible, sir, that the gentleman was really serious when he talked about an injury to women and children? |
40851 | Can it be shown, or even said, that the judgment of the court was a false construction of the constitution? |
40851 | Can it be, that an act, which, if perpetrated by an individual, would be robbery, can be justifiable in a nation? |
40851 | Can it have this effect? |
40851 | Can it mean that an office may exist, although its duties are extinct? |
40851 | Can it mean, in short, that the shadow, to wit, the judge, can remain, when the substance, to wit, the office, is removed? |
40851 | Can it mean, that his tenure should be limited by behaving well in an office which did not exist? |
40851 | Can not the logical talents of the gentleman from Massachusetts( Mr. BACON) distinguish between information and measures? |
40851 | Can stones show gratitude? |
40851 | Can the honorable gentleman be serious in all this? |
40851 | Can the usefulness or convenience of any acquisition justify us in taking from another by force what we have no sort of right to? |
40851 | Can this admission make us responsible for the conduct of men we do not know, and over whom we have no control? |
40851 | Can we expect any thing from their justice, or, rather, have we not every thing to expect from their vengeance, if not prepared to meet it? |
40851 | Can we expect this, said Mr. N.? |
40851 | Can you impair its force by impeaching the motives of any member who voted for it? |
40851 | Could any gentleman conceive that these were not too great powers to be intrusted to any State whatever? |
40851 | Could any gentleman pretend to say that no inference might be drawn from this source and the concomitant facts? |
40851 | Could any man desire to place the citizens of the District in such a state? |
40851 | Could any office be at the same time in the possession of two persons? |
40851 | Could any possible inconvenience accrue from allowing him to obtain the information he desired? |
40851 | Could gentlemen be serious in making this objection? |
40851 | Could gentlemen hear it and not shudder? |
40851 | Could he say we were at peace with them now? |
40851 | Could he use the public force to redress our wrongs? |
40851 | Could his successor, on the receipt of his commission, exercise the functions of judge, prior to the resignation of the former incumbent? |
40851 | Could it be necessary then to_ increase_ courts when suits were_ decreasing_? |
40851 | Could it be necessary to multiply judges, when their duties were diminishing? |
40851 | Could it then be supposed these gentlemen could, in this instance, so change their opinion? |
40851 | Could it, then, with any reason be called premature to act upon such information? |
40851 | Could the President proceed further, even if he thought more vigorous measures proper and expedient? |
40851 | Could the Speaker desire this? |
40851 | Could the framers of the constitution intend to guarantee, as a sacred principle, the liberty of lying against the Government? |
40851 | Could they alone go to war with France and Spain? |
40851 | Could they declare a law of North Carolina null and void? |
40851 | Could they fear injustice when opposed to a feeble individual? |
40851 | Could they hold Orleans, were they to take possession of it, without the aid of the United States? |
40851 | Could this be correct? |
40851 | Could this be liberty? |
40851 | Could this give offence, because we feel pleasure in being at peace? |
40851 | Could we refuse a tribute of respect to a man who had served his country so much? |
40851 | Could, then, gentlemen talk of moral obligation, and say that this was a just debt? |
40851 | Dangerous to Europe and to the world, what will be the effect of a great increase of that power? |
40851 | Did a nation ever make a declaration that it was not at war? |
40851 | Did any thing appear in the conduct of the French Directory to show that our Ministers were not possessed of ample powers? |
40851 | Did gentlemen mean that if we should make use of force against lawless violence, it is war? |
40851 | Did gentlemen want an age to express an opinion which every member feels-- which the whole nation feels? |
40851 | Did he carry his purpose into effect? |
40851 | Did he mean to set all slaves at liberty, or receive petitions from all? |
40851 | Did he not embark his all for this country? |
40851 | Did he then ask any thing which was unreasonable or improper? |
40851 | Did his constituents, he asked, wish this? |
40851 | Did not he know that the doctrine applied to the Senate as well as to that House? |
40851 | Did not our situation, and the circumstances in which we stand, compel us to turn our attention to this object? |
40851 | Did not the United States trade with all the nations of the earth? |
40851 | Did not the gentleman know that the most solemn decision had taken place last session on this subject, by a large majority? |
40851 | Did not the gentleman''s friends immediately state the impropriety of passing those resolutions? |
40851 | Did not the insolvent laws of the Southern States hold out the same allurements to fraud as the general bankrupt law? |
40851 | Did not the members of the convention know that a great quantity of public treasure would be drawn together into this place? |
40851 | Did not the silence of the bill on this point show the ignorance of gentlemen? |
40851 | Did not this go to sanction a report which was as false and malignant as even jacobinism could invent? |
40851 | Did the acts of cession by the States, and of acceptance by Congress, take away the jurisdiction of those States, and vest it in Congress? |
40851 | Did the city afford the Government a defence? |
40851 | Did the gentleman mean to insinuate, that this war was invited by the United States? |
40851 | Did the gentleman suppose that the number would be so great as to make a demand on their seats? |
40851 | Did the military send its aid? |
40851 | Did the people of America vest all power in the Legislature? |
40851 | Did the people? |
40851 | Did the petition go any farther than this? |
40851 | Did they attempt to counteract the Executive? |
40851 | Did they imagine that, without the expression of a murmur by them, the mover would himself rise and oppose his own motion? |
40851 | Did they know how far we would reduce the Army, the Navy, or the Judiciary? |
40851 | Did they not consider the number of persons attached to the Government worthy of the special regard of the national Legislature? |
40851 | Did they not hold them under the Spanish Government? |
40851 | Did they rest here the most important branch of our Government? |
40851 | Did they risk on these grammatical niceties the fate of America? |
40851 | Did those gentlemen consider what it was to deprive the country of a rich mine of ship timber? |
40851 | Did we drive them to the measures that made such immense expenditures of the public money necessary? |
40851 | Did we object to a syllable contained in this part of the resolution? |
40851 | Did we refuse our assent? |
40851 | Did we then hesitate? |
40851 | Did we then make war? |
40851 | Did we then wait for foreign alliance? |
40851 | Do gentlemen appeal to our fears, rather than to our understanding? |
40851 | Do gentlemen mean to decide at once thus precipitately against all indemnity whatever? |
40851 | Do gentlemen say opinions can be false which do not contain matter of fact? |
40851 | Do gentlemen themselves think that the persons, whom I see around me, ought to be trusted with such powers? |
40851 | Do not gentlemen know that our Government is in possession of testimony, demonstrating beyond all kind of doubt, that this is not the fact? |
40851 | Do not gentlemen know that peace or war is not in our power? |
40851 | Do not the people in this territory hold them as such? |
40851 | Do not we know that we may safely rely upon them? |
40851 | Do they imagine that any particular place can be assigned to which they can ensure a profound silence, and from which every person can be withheld? |
40851 | Do they mean to prevent the publication of their sentiments to their constituents and to the world? |
40851 | Do we not every day call upon particular officers to perform duties not previously assigned to, or required of them? |
40851 | Do we not hear of depredatory threats, and the mischiefs she has the power of doing us, urged as reasons why we should submit to her? |
40851 | Do we not know, said Mr. B., that he is among the persons proscribed by France? |
40851 | Do we not see the nation with whom we are at variance find quarrels with every country who is not strong enough to resist her? |
40851 | Do you not tremble when you look at it? |
40851 | Do you prefer peace to independence? |
40851 | Does any body expect any thing from the terrible generosity of the Great Nation? |
40851 | Does any gentleman on this floor know who confined him, or by order of what government? |
40851 | Does he mean to say that Congress did wrong in funding the public debt? |
40851 | Does he mean to say that the price of our liberty and independence ought not to have been paid? |
40851 | Does he remember when we passed this law? |
40851 | Does he wish unreasonable concessions to be made? |
40851 | Does it affect the case? |
40851 | Does it alter the fact? |
40851 | Does it embrace any point of fact on which a committee is to make inquiry? |
40851 | Does it follow, that a law is bad because all those who concurred in it can not give good reasons for their votes? |
40851 | Does it not rather appear as if they intended to alienate the affections of the people from their Government, in order to effect their own views? |
40851 | Does it not say that the agents must be under the Government of France? |
40851 | Does it result that we have a right to pass a law beforehand to contemplate such an event? |
40851 | Does not the President refer to them as important to enlighten us? |
40851 | Does not the power that cedes give up all right whatever to that which accepts? |
40851 | Does not the selection of the best objects to which to appropriate it devolve on you? |
40851 | Does not this look as though the United States are to patronize and support the establishment? |
40851 | Does not this manifest precipitation? |
40851 | Does not this show that the gentlemen themselves have not confided in the estimate of the artist? |
40851 | Does she not injure us on every side? |
40851 | Does such a commission empower one to exercise the functions of the whole in opposition to the opinions of his colleagues? |
40851 | Does the gentleman by this mean to give the lie to the Executive? |
40851 | Does the gentleman from Connecticut recollect the words of that decree? |
40851 | Does the gentleman say opinions can not be false? |
40851 | Does the gentleman wish to suppress the history of the political events of 1776? |
40851 | Does this mean, said he, that there are a majority of members in this House who must always be in the right, and a minority always in the wrong? |
40851 | Does this question involve an inquiry either into matter of expediency or of fact? |
40851 | Else why was the provision for exclusive jurisdiction made? |
40851 | Establish thus the dependence of the Judiciary Department, who will resort to them for protection against you? |
40851 | For by what rule of evidence could he discover and know what was really the writer''s belief? |
40851 | For fear of_ offending_ foreign nations we are not to ask or know what is our relative situation with such nations? |
40851 | For what do we ask? |
40851 | For what purpose was this great mass to be raised? |
40851 | For what purpose, said he, should they be finished, unless it were intended to man them? |
40851 | For what, sir, are elections held, if it be not that the people should change their representatives when they do not like them? |
40851 | For what? |
40851 | For when the powers and duties are taken away, what, let me ask, is left but a salary? |
40851 | From whence do they derive their authority? |
40851 | From whence, said Mr. V., is this reasoning drawn? |
40851 | From whom is a corrupt decision most to be feared? |
40851 | Gentlemen asked whether war is not approaching? |
40851 | Gentlemen catch at this; but what is it but an attempt to arrest the arm of the Government of this country, just when it was about to strike a blow? |
40851 | Gentlemen say, we are happier than though we were at war; are we at peace? |
40851 | Had Congress, then, a right to do any thing to bind the sovereignties of the independent States? |
40851 | Had any objection been made to the old Congress under the Confederation, that was federally organized, for the want of talents or integrity? |
40851 | Had not the citizens lived happily for a hundred years under the State Governments? |
40851 | Had she no navy in the American war, when with great gallantry, though with unequal success, she fought the English at sea? |
40851 | Had the public affairs been conducted with less ability than they are at present? |
40851 | Had they not an equal right to be heard with other petitioners? |
40851 | Has a great man reason to fear from a poor one? |
40851 | Has a nation a right to put these States in a dangerous situation? |
40851 | Has he any documents or proof to render the suspicion colorable? |
40851 | Has he heard of no commercial distresses, when violations so unprecedented have of late occurred? |
40851 | Has it been passed in a manner which wounded your pride, or aroused your resentment? |
40851 | Has it been the practice of this Government heretofore to break lances on the spot with any nation who injured or insulted her? |
40851 | Has the King of Spain, has the First Consul of France, no means of making such communication to the President of the United States? |
40851 | Have not the judges, in the same manner, been deprived of one of their offices? |
40851 | Have the French Government expressed any inclination to settle the differences subsisting between them and us? |
40851 | Have the Senate any authority to advise him as to the faithful execution of the laws? |
40851 | Have they not been wholly maritime? |
40851 | Have they not seen the letter of the Governor of New Orleans to the Governor of the Mississippi Territory? |
40851 | Have we a better prospect than that nation? |
40851 | Have we given our vote that we would not defend the free navigation of the Mississippi? |
40851 | Have we heretofore been considered as responsible? |
40851 | Have we not been ready to unite in adopting those measures which the infraction of treaties and our violated rights demand? |
40851 | Have we not heard this doctrine supported in the memorable case of the mandamus, lately before the Supreme Court? |
40851 | Have we not passed a variety of bills which gentlemen have declared amount to war? |
40851 | Have we not seen sedition laws? |
40851 | Have we not uniformly adhered to the principle that those who exercise power_ de facto_ are the only persons that we are bound to recognize? |
40851 | Have we not within these few days passed a law to prevent the importation of certain dangerous characters? |
40851 | Have we one common language, and are we united under one head? |
40851 | Have we such evidence as should incline us to rely upon it? |
40851 | Have you a judiciary system extending over this immense country, matured by the wisdom of your ablest and best men? |
40851 | Have you any thing to say in excuse or extenuation for said publication? |
40851 | Have you here the opportunities for valuable information which might be had elsewhere? |
40851 | Have you not done more? |
40851 | Have you not then established a new office by the destruction of the old one? |
40851 | Have you taxes which have been laid since the commencement of the Government? |
40851 | Have you, said Mr. L., no greater objects to engage your attention than whether this man or that man shall go out of your bar, or remain within it? |
40851 | He again asked, have we the means? |
40851 | He asked if our Government did not know that nothing was to be obtained here without money? |
40851 | He asked the decision of the question, whether, previously to offering his resolutions, the doors ought not to be closed? |
40851 | He asked those gentlemen whether the PRESIDENT had not a right to man the frigates, and if so, whether they should not be_ obliged_ to find the money? |
40851 | He asked whether any gentlemen in this House, who are so frequently called disorganizers, had ever broached a doctrine like this? |
40851 | He asked whether gentlemen did not believe the Executive had taken measures which would lead to war? |
40851 | He asked whether the United States might not as well lose revenue in the first instance, as put money into the people''s pockets to pay it with? |
40851 | He asked whether this was consonant to the principles of the constitution? |
40851 | He asked whether, where men wanted every thing, and were in proportion of 29 to 1, it was possible they could be trusted with power? |
40851 | He asked, what necessity for the exercise of power by Congress? |
40851 | He called upon gentlemen to say whether a temper of revolt was not more perceptible in that quarter? |
40851 | He himself saw it with concern; but where was the difference in crime between the French Republic and the Emperor? |
40851 | He should be glad to know where he saw the signature to know it? |
40851 | He then asked if this was not the very state in which we now were? |
40851 | He wished also to know whether it was intended that the Senate should declare that the publication was a breach of privilege? |
40851 | He wished he could see the breasts of gentlemen now glow with the patriotism which then animated them; but, instead of this, what do we see? |
40851 | He wished to know how a distinction was to be made on this subject? |
40851 | He wished to know what difficulty there would have been in defining the time here referred to in this bill? |
40851 | He wished to know what was meant? |
40851 | He wished to know whence he derived his information? |
40851 | He wished to know whether the House had not jurisdiction over this matter? |
40851 | He wished to know whether the people have not a right to say, if they choose, that the administration of justice is corrupt? |
40851 | He wished, therefore, to know what these unusual severities were which, upon our own ideas of Government, we could retaliate? |
40851 | He would appeal to the gentleman whether it was more honorable to desert his duty and fly a vote, than to act as he had done? |
40851 | He would ask the gentleman just up whether he knew any thing about the expense of a mausoleum? |
40851 | He would ask the gentleman whether that act of ours should have any influence on our situation with France? |
40851 | He would ask whether, in countries over which the Government had complete jurisdiction, worse things had not happened? |
40851 | He would ask, Was there any thing in the name of Government, if it operated in this manner? |
40851 | He would ask, could not an appropriation be made for the use of the Military Establishment in general terms? |
40851 | He would ask, how, under these circumstances, a jury could be struck in a federal court in that State agreeably to law? |
40851 | He would not deny that frauds were committed, but for this should the honest debtor be eternally fettered with his debts? |
40851 | He would wish to know what advantage there could be in giving this legislative agency to those States? |
40851 | Hence arises the advantages from public contributions; and would that House, he asked, refuse their assistance? |
40851 | Here Mr. C. was called to order by Mr. BINGHAM, of Pennsylvania, who inquired what the liberty of the press had to do on a question of postponement? |
40851 | How can the retrocession be made? |
40851 | How could any thing, then, be due to them? |
40851 | How could he know what part would awaken that idea of disrespect? |
40851 | How could it be fairly argued, because gentlemen desired to limit the duration of this law, that they were unwilling to defend their country? |
40851 | How could that little island( England) command such influence in foreign dominions? |
40851 | How could that share be estimated? |
40851 | How could the motion be necessary-- how be useful? |
40851 | How could they be collected? |
40851 | How could this be, when they had no right to be deprived of? |
40851 | How could this be? |
40851 | How could we say what our relation is, except we determine what is our relation with respect to the treaties subsisting between the two countries? |
40851 | How did the bankrupt law operate upon the planter? |
40851 | How did the gentleman mean to go, and how take peaceable possession? |
40851 | How did the matter stand? |
40851 | How does that honorable gentleman get his information? |
40851 | How does the gentleman from Virginia know what light this information may throw on the subject? |
40851 | How does the matter now stand? |
40851 | How is a naval force to guard us, which Great Britain can destroy, whenever she pleases, even in time of war? |
40851 | How is it to operate? |
40851 | How is that to be formed? |
40851 | How is the independence of the judge more affected by the one act than by the other? |
40851 | How is this question to be decided? |
40851 | How is this to be done? |
40851 | How long can we expect to maintain the other distinctive qualities of the magistracy of the two countries, when this sameness is established? |
40851 | How long is it since we have discovered the malignant qualities which are now ascribed to this law? |
40851 | How must they, then, get support? |
40851 | How progressing? |
40851 | How so? |
40851 | How then can this House meddle with that part of our property? |
40851 | How then can we commiserate with it as an unfortunate country? |
40851 | How then can we deliberate on this subject, unless we know the degree of probability there is, that it will be carried into effect? |
40851 | How then could it be expected that, at such a period, even the semblance of justice could be done to the subject? |
40851 | How then could the gentleman from Pennsylvania say that Holland has no navy? |
40851 | How was it terminated? |
40851 | How was this to be ascertained but by inquiry? |
40851 | How was this to be done? |
40851 | How was this to be done? |
40851 | How would this resolution then stand? |
40851 | How would you bear up, not only against the force of the enemy, but against the irresistible current of public opinion? |
40851 | How, he asked, would this operate? |
40851 | How, he would ask gentlemen, could this be granted, and yet retained? |
40851 | How, then, can the gentleman with truth say that we have deviated from the law of nations? |
40851 | How, then, could the respective States of Virginia and Maryland a moment longer possess the jurisdiction? |
40851 | How, then, he asked, could they make their observations on it as they had done? |
40851 | How, then, he asks, can we expect to protect our commerce by a navy? |
40851 | How, then, is the nomination of a Minister to be understood? |
40851 | How, then, was it possible to do without accredited agents to attend to our concerns in foreign countries? |
40851 | I ask gentlemen, what is there in the constitution to prove their signification to this end alone? |
40851 | I ask him how he would remedy this evil as he calls it? |
40851 | I ask you, Mr. Chairman, if any system could be devised more likely to produce vexation and delay? |
40851 | I ask, gentlemen, is it not unfriendly and wrongful? |
40851 | I ask, if you do not, by such treatment, put the Government entirely into their hands? |
40851 | I ask, was this a public treaty? |
40851 | I say, sir, these were her motives in agreeing to that measure; and did she not evince a magnanimous spirit by doing it? |
40851 | I wish to know if the establishment of this principle requires facts? |
40851 | If Congress can derive no solid benefit from the exercise of this power, why keep the people in this degraded situation? |
40851 | If Congress exercise exclusive legislation, does it not follow that no other body can exercise any legislation whatever? |
40851 | If Congress had not power to legislate on the African trade, then why did they say it was with a committee? |
40851 | If a man is to be subject to a prosecution for his opinions, what will be the consequence? |
40851 | If all these parties are agreed to revoke their act, I wish to know who is to dissent to it, or what obstacle can prevent its being rescinded? |
40851 | If an opinion upon a fact be expressed, and that opinion is false, scandalous, and malicious, ought it not to be subject to prosecution? |
40851 | If as a constitutional organ of the Government, where is the power given to the Senate? |
40851 | If from the cabinet, are we, the representatives of the people, to obtain it from him? |
40851 | If gentlemen are against finishing these frigates, why do they not come forward and declare it? |
40851 | If gentlemen were then wrong, is that a reason why they should continue to act wrong? |
40851 | If it was desirable, who could undertake it, who encourage it, like this House? |
40851 | If it were, why pass such a bill at this time, when it could not go into operation? |
40851 | If not, how could it be improper for us to seize the only moment which was left for the then majority to do what they deemed a necessary act? |
40851 | If not, what did all that had been said amount to? |
40851 | If nothing was intended but a mere incorporation, why not apply to the State that could incorporate such a body? |
40851 | If one person in particular has the sale of his debates to this House, will it not destroy the advantages any other can derive from it? |
40851 | If receded, what would be the situation of the Territory? |
40851 | If the House decide that the Government is bound to relieve in one case, are they not bound to afford relief in all similar cases? |
40851 | If the Intendant is to be controlled by the Minister, would he have taken a step so important without his advice? |
40851 | If the United States were to become underwriters to the whole Union, where must the line be drawn when their assistance might be claimed? |
40851 | If the debtor States were not to pay their balances, why settle the accounts? |
40851 | If the doors shall be closed, can not we still agree to the resolution? |
40851 | If the expense is to be provided for, how is it to be done? |
40851 | If the gentleman from Delaware, or other gentlemen thought so, why not combat a decision at the time? |
40851 | If the permission were once granted to one, would it not be necessary to extend it to all? |
40851 | If the sentiments were agreeable to the minds of the House, why waste our time to alter mere expressions while the sentiment is preserved? |
40851 | If the spirit which last session gave existence to sixteen new judges continued, who could say by what number they would be limited? |
40851 | If there was nothing improper, why should they fear to trust the Senate with it? |
40851 | If these expenses were to be incurred for five thousand men, what would be the expense of an Army of thirty thousand men? |
40851 | If these sentiments were true, why not express them? |
40851 | If they had not a right to permit it, whether they are not bound to prohibit it? |
40851 | If they had power, where was the impropriety of referring, at least that part which could be considered? |
40851 | If they have the right to punish libels, or false, or malicious attacks, why include them in this act? |
40851 | If they were to pay at this rate for overlooking the timber for one ship, what might they expect would be the expense of a navy yard? |
40851 | If they were, the only difference between us now is, what are the proper means to obtain this great end? |
40851 | If they will not say this, must they not allow that the constitution is positive in prohibiting any change in this respect? |
40851 | If they, then, were compelled to protect commerce, he asked if there was any other way of doing it than by a Navy? |
40851 | If this diversity of sentiment exists, ought not the evils under the judiciary law to be very great before we touch it? |
40851 | If this exercise were to be allowed in any case, why could it not be allowed in the present? |
40851 | If this is the case, and the House knew it, why not say so, and make preparations accordingly? |
40851 | If this reasoning is correct, can you repeal a law establishing an inferior court, under the constitution? |
40851 | If this were not the intention, why resist the amendment? |
40851 | If we agree to the resolution, do we not pledge ourselves to increase this force? |
40851 | If we are bound by the acts of the old Congress, are we not equally bound by those of the last session? |
40851 | If we thus give away the people''s money, said he, shall we not be charged with rapaciously putting our hands into their pockets? |
40851 | If you destroy all law and government, can the few oppress the many, or will the many oppress the few? |
40851 | If, said he, you incorporate men to build a University, are you not pledging yourselves to make up any deficiency? |
40851 | In a Republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? |
40851 | In a court from which no one had an appeal and to whom it belonged to establish the leading principles of national jurisprudence? |
40851 | In a court, the judges of which are appointed by the PRESIDENT, by a jury selected by an officer holding his office at the will of the PRESIDENT? |
40851 | In making treaties he wished to know what was meant by two- thirds of the members of the Senate present? |
40851 | In short, does it appear that even Spain herself thought it an object of any importance? |
40851 | In what part of the constitution is it declared to be adopted? |
40851 | In what part of the constitution is such power delegated to this House? |
40851 | Indeed, can it, in the nature of things, be one of the rights of freemen to do injury? |
40851 | Instead of inducing them to behave better to us, had it not been with a knowledge of this that they have offered us fresh insult and indignity? |
40851 | Institutions for promoting it grow up, supported by the public purse; and to what object can it be dedicated with greater propriety? |
40851 | Is America, said he, arrived at this melancholy state? |
40851 | Is American character worth nothing, that we should thus, in my judgment, improperly, attempt to destroy it on this floor? |
40851 | Is a law that has received the varied assent required by the constitution, and is clothed with all the needful formalities, thereby invalidated? |
40851 | Is he a strict common lawyer, or a special pleader? |
40851 | Is he acquainted with chancery law? |
40851 | Is he bold enough to denounce this measure as one of the Federal victims marked for destruction? |
40851 | Is he prepared to say it will throw no light on this subject? |
40851 | Is it a license to injure others or the Government, by calumnies, with impunity? |
40851 | Is it a strange thing, I would ask gentlemen, for a State to grant charters? |
40851 | Is it at present for the public convenience? |
40851 | Is it because the Legislature may, at pleasure, set aside a treaty? |
40851 | Is it less expensive for individuals, or for the public, than it would be in some of your commercial cities? |
40851 | Is it necessary, when the whole nation is alive, to be moderate in the expression of our ideas? |
40851 | Is it not because popular opinion was called on to decide every thing, until those who wore bayonets decided for all the rest? |
40851 | Is it not before us? |
40851 | Is it not natural for the people to ask why Congress do not call for this information? |
40851 | Is it not rather a degraded state? |
40851 | Is it not reasonable, then, that an institution of this kind should be established in that place? |
40851 | Is it not time to gain information? |
40851 | Is it not well known that those debts were part of the price of our Revolution? |
40851 | Is it not your great duty to promote the public good; and can that be more completely promoted in any other way? |
40851 | Is it possible for any man to read the constitution with attention, and then suppose that such could have been its design? |
40851 | Is it possible that twelve thousand dollars can be necessary for the two Houses? |
40851 | Is it proper, Mr. N. asked, for legislators to be placed on this ground? |
40851 | Is it safe? |
40851 | Is it the design to tell us that its day has not yet come, but is approaching; and that the funding system is to add to the pile of Federal ruins? |
40851 | Is it the law of England, at any particular period, which is adopted? |
40851 | Is it then for this House to say they will not attend to the petitions of our citizens? |
40851 | Is it to be a river, or a line of marked trees? |
40851 | Is it too much to say of such a calculation, that it is a paltry calculation, unworthy of a statesman, and befitting only a schoolboy? |
40851 | Is murder prohibited, and may you shut a man up, and deprive him of sustenance, till he dies, and this not be denominated murder? |
40851 | Is no punishment to be inflicted on such a person? |
40851 | Is not this a strange situation? |
40851 | Is not this, said Mr. N., an acknowledgment of the effect which this law will have? |
40851 | Is our present situation calculated to produce this effect? |
40851 | Is such a thing possible? |
40851 | Is that a Government of laws which leaves us no security but in the confidence we have in the moderation and patriotism of one man? |
40851 | Is that a measure of general defence which has diminished confidence in the Government and produced disunion among the States and among the people? |
40851 | Is that formed by the constitution? |
40851 | Is that wonderful man who presides over the destinies of France, ignorant or unmindful of these forms? |
40851 | Is the creation of judicial officers the only thing committed to their discretion? |
40851 | Is the gentleman really in earnest in his inquiries at this time? |
40851 | Is the idea of a separation of these States so light and trifling an affair, as to be uttered with calmness in this deliberate assembly? |
40851 | Is the power claimed proper for Congress to possess? |
40851 | Is there a State in the Union which has not adopted it, and in which it is not in force? |
40851 | Is there an offensive sentence either to the Court of Spain or the Republic of France? |
40851 | Is there any condition annexed to the judge''s tenure of office, other than good behavior? |
40851 | Is there any doubt that we shall not stand in need of information when we come to discuss points connected with this subject? |
40851 | Is there no instance of a similar situation to be found in history? |
40851 | Is there not reason to believe gentlemen hope to conceal the full extent of their principles, by bringing them into operation only by degrees? |
40851 | Is there then nothing more? |
40851 | Is there, then, I ask you, any other mode for perpetuating the memory of such transcendent virtues so strong, so impressive as that which we propose? |
40851 | Is this House free from it? |
40851 | Is this a desirable state of things? |
40851 | Is this all our boasted acquisition, in return for the struggle we have made for our country? |
40851 | Is this an Address or an insult? |
40851 | Is this conciliation? |
40851 | Is this equitable? |
40851 | Is this fair, sir? |
40851 | Is this not calumny of the darkest hue? |
40851 | Is this not war? |
40851 | Is this system so very vicious, that it deserves nothing but abhorrence and destruction? |
40851 | Is this the case? |
40851 | Is this the language of irritation? |
40851 | Is this the mark of respect we ought to show to the first man in the nation? |
40851 | Is this the way in which six hundred thousand men are to be stigmatized? |
40851 | Is this to control succeeding rulers in their wild, their mad career? |
40851 | Is this wise? |
40851 | Is this, said he, a desirable state for the Legislature to be placed in? |
40851 | It is not want of respect that should prevent us, but are we provided to go into all the consequences attending a new negotiation? |
40851 | It is true, this place may be settled by foreigners; but can we suppose that any native citizen, who values his political rights, will come here? |
40851 | It may be said that you print your journals; but who reads them? |
40851 | It was a Judicial question, and the House ought not to pretend to determine the point; why, then, should they take up time upon it? |
40851 | Let me ask if this was not a vicious construction of a court of the highest authority and greatest importance in the nation? |
40851 | Let me ask, is there any thing in this calculated to gratify the courtly delicacy of a Castilian? |
40851 | Let me ask, sir, what could the judges do? |
40851 | Let me now ask, if the compensation allowed to these judges is extravagant? |
40851 | Let the gentleman from New York classify the claims as he pleases, can he tell the extent of the demands? |
40851 | Let the inquiry be made, of whom do the judges hold? |
40851 | May not equal oppression be imposed upon the people by giving your judges exorbitant salaries as by increasing their numbers? |
40851 | May not the same corrupt and unprincipled motive which would lead men to the raising of an army of judges lead them to squander the public money? |
40851 | May they not amount to five million or ten million of dollars? |
40851 | Might not sixty as well as sixteen, with salaries of twenty thousand, instead of two thousand dollars, be provided for in this way? |
40851 | Might there not be other applications? |
40851 | Mr. B. asked, would these gentlemen admit that Nash was guilty of the dreadful murders committed on board the British frigate? |
40851 | Mr. B. said, he would inquire whether the present salaries were a reasonable and just compensation for the services performed? |
40851 | Mr. B. wished to know to whom they are to be attached? |
40851 | Mr. BAYARD asked for information whether it was in order for him to state that he withdrew his resolution? |
40851 | Mr. BUCK asked if, when on the question on the resolution,( if, adopted,) a separate vote could be given? |
40851 | Mr. COIT wished to know whether it was necessary for the United States to intermeddle with this? |
40851 | Mr. DANA thought this a most extraordinary resolution indeed? |
40851 | Mr. DAWSON asked if these resolutions were not necessarily connected with a subject which the House had determined should be discussed in private? |
40851 | Mr. DAWSON inquired if the same rules that applied to the House, did not also apply to Committees of the Whole? |
40851 | Mr. GALLATIN asked whether he understood the SPEAKER rightly, that a motion for a reference to a committee superseded a motion for postponement? |
40851 | Mr. GALLATIN inquired from what document Mr. SMITH took his calculations? |
40851 | Mr. GORDON wished to know what part of the resolution the gentleman from Virginia was not ready to act upon? |
40851 | Mr. H. asked on which branch of this rule could the arguments of gentlemen be predicated? |
40851 | Mr. HARPER asked, if the report of the committee should not be agreed to, whether the resolution might not then be agreed to? |
40851 | Mr. HARPER had yesterday said that the impressments were few; but how were we to be certain of that? |
40851 | Mr. HARPER inquired of the SPEAKER whether that was the usual mode of proceeding? |
40851 | Mr. LIVINGSTON desired to know wherein he had attempted to ridicule the resources of this country? |
40851 | Mr. MURRAY inquired when the fire happened at Lexington? |
40851 | Mr. N. asked whether this bill did not go to the abridgment of the freedom of speech and of the press? |
40851 | Mr. N. asked whether we could ever hope to succeed in a plan of this kind? |
40851 | Mr. NICHOLAS asked whether it had heretofore been usual, in the case of a new House, to swear the members before the choice of a Speaker? |
40851 | Mr. NICHOLAS asked whether it was in order to abuse any class of citizens in this manner, and particularly since no motion was before the committee? |
40851 | Mr. NICHOLAS asked whether it would not then be in order to postpone the consideration of the subject? |
40851 | Mr. O. inquired if the House was ready to do the first? |
40851 | Mr. President, are we then to understand that opposition to the majority in the two Houses of Congress, is improper, is indecent? |
40851 | Mr. R. WILLIAMS wished to know whether the new census proposed to be taken was to affect the representation as well as the tax? |
40851 | Mr. R. said, if he had not, how was he to know whether it was good or bad? |
40851 | Mr. RANDOLPH said he would ask the gentleman from Delaware, whether he had seen any indisposition in that House to discuss the subject? |
40851 | Mr. S. SMITH asked if this were not the precise motion decided yesterday by the House? |
40851 | Mr. S. asked if this mode was not perfectly just and fair? |
40851 | Mr. SMILIE would ask whether the Supreme Court in such a case as this could be denominated an impartial tribunal? |
40851 | Mr. SPRIGGS said it had been inquired why the Legislature of Maryland could not have granted the commissioners what they now pray for? |
40851 | Mr. SWANWICK asked the gentleman what security there was in a peace with Algiers? |
40851 | Mr. SWANWICK considered the question to be to this effect: whether the debates be under the sanction of the House or not? |
40851 | Mr. W. LYMAN said, the question was, whether the House would incur the expense of$ 1,600 to supply the members with copies or not? |
40851 | Must it be acknowledged as the prerogative of that State to impose a Chief Magistrate on the Union? |
40851 | Must they hire a man for this purpose? |
40851 | Must we not judge of it by its intrinsic merit? |
40851 | Must you resort to Maryland for protection, and wait on her measures? |
40851 | No, said he, you have not: what is your answer? |
40851 | Now of what do courts consist? |
40851 | Now the question is whether, if the offices are abolished, those who filled them before they were abolished are entitled to salaries? |
40851 | Now what has the information desired by gentlemen to do with any such negotiation? |
40851 | Now when there were no services to be performed, what salary could there be allowed, or what retribution demanded? |
40851 | Now, sir, is it not our duty to consult our country''s interest, before we take this rash step, which we can not recall? |
40851 | Now, suppose in the French Treaty there were the same provisions as in the British Treaty, would this have produced payment? |
40851 | Now, what could possibly be in possession of that Department? |
40851 | Of any resignations of the office of judge of the circuit court, in order"that a salutary system might take effect?" |
40851 | Of what nature should these be? |
40851 | Of what use, Mr. G. asked, had been the reference of a set of resolutions made some days ago by Mr. SITGREAVES? |
40851 | Of whom shall your judges be independent? |
40851 | On the other hand, what do you see? |
40851 | On the passage of the law of last session, did we hear any protest against its unconstitutionality from the Supreme or district courts? |
40851 | On the question whether the Senate would advise and consent to the ratification of the third article of the convention? |
40851 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
40851 | On the question, Shall this bill pass? |
40851 | On the question, whether the Senate would advise and consent to the ratification of the third article? |
40851 | On the question, whether the Senate would advise and consent to the said additional article, as amended? |
40851 | On the question,"Will the Senate advise and consent to the adoption of this article?" |
40851 | Once take that step, and what obligation was there in Congress to remain here? |
40851 | Or could they say that no part of the 80,000 militia, ordered to be held in readiness, would not be called into service? |
40851 | Or does he believe that these events will be handed down in association with the bloody buoy, and Porcupine''s works? |
40851 | Or had the PRESIDENT set a bad example, by living in a style of extravagance and splendor? |
40851 | Or has he had time to examine whether that decree is really in force, or not? |
40851 | Or has not the invariable course been to seek reparation in the first place by negotiation? |
40851 | Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? |
40851 | Or is it abridged by a law to restrain lying? |
40851 | Or is the judgment of this House so feeble, that it may not be trusted? |
40851 | Or was he the very leader of the band that broke down these constitutional ramparts? |
40851 | Or was the power placed in them to be exercised like other duties, according to justice and propriety? |
40851 | Or was there a difference of right, because Virginia, with its extent and population, could make more clamor than any other State? |
40851 | Or would it be proper to sit down, satisfied that our enemy will not invade us, though they see we are not prepared to meet them? |
40851 | Or would they be ready to forfeit the revenue arising from it? |
40851 | Or would you be bound to retain them, lest it should infringe a private right? |
40851 | Or, if they could, can they find time to hear and decide causes? |
40851 | Or, that there were in that case no measures adopted? |
40851 | Or, will gentlemen say it was their intention to place themselves in this situation? |
40851 | Ought it to be rejected on the ground of jurisdiction? |
40851 | Ought not the House to be possessed of all the important information in the power of the Executive to give? |
40851 | Ought not this person to perform the object, although the particular mode of using the means has not been prescribed? |
40851 | Ought our country to remain in such cases dependent on foreign supply, precarious, because liable to be interrupted? |
40851 | Ought they not, then, he asked, to devise some species of tax by which to draw some part of the revenue from the inhabitants of the back country? |
40851 | Ought they, then, to support the doctrine which hereafter may be practised on to the full extent? |
40851 | Ought we not to aim at harmonizing, instead of dividing our citizens? |
40851 | Ought we not, therefore, on such a subject, to take immediate means to gain information? |
40851 | Our trade became so insecure, that it was necessary to do-- what? |
40851 | Patriotism could not be purchased, and should they despair of getting a man to fill the office of PRESIDENT without they increased the salary? |
40851 | Perhaps he has formed from his own mind a proper selection for our children, and is against the press handing down any thing else? |
40851 | Perhaps he might be asked, if we were, then, to be left without protection? |
40851 | Put the case to its consequences, and what becomes of the check? |
40851 | Questions arise whether both descriptions of sufferers ought not to be provided for? |
40851 | Returning to the question of foreign political intercourse: Was it proper to bring it back to what it was eighteen months ago? |
40851 | Shall he, and he only, have the public ear? |
40851 | Shall it be confided to men immediately responsible to the people, or to those who are irresponsible? |
40851 | Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe? |
40851 | Shall the Speaker have the discretion of saying what debates shall be taken and what shall not? |
40851 | Shall then a mistaken spirit of economy, and a still more mistaken jealousy arrest us? |
40851 | Shall they obey God or Mammon? |
40851 | Shall we abandon our duty? |
40851 | Shall we repress truth? |
40851 | Shall we sacrifice the interests of our constituents to a sense of politeness to these gentlemen? |
40851 | Shall we send a Minister hampered by such a resolution? |
40851 | Shall we shut the door against individual benevolence? |
40851 | Shall we sit down contented under the imputation of lukewarmness in this cause? |
40851 | Shall we thereby invite her aggressions? |
40851 | Shall we, said Mr. D., because our seamen have been first injured by Great Britain, when France uses them still worse, abandon them? |
40851 | Shall we, said he, treat the citizens of Savannah with more disrespect than the people of St. Domingo? |
40851 | Should I be doing right, said Mr. G., to say that I believe that this section of the bill is an effect of that negotiation? |
40851 | Should he, from unavoidable accidents, be cast into prison, and his family reduced to misery and distress? |
40851 | Should we now say they should be at our direction, and that we would not grant money without? |
40851 | Since our treaties were always made by special Envoys, what advantage could it be to have numerous Ministers Plenipotentiary in Europe? |
40851 | Sir, after a declaration of this kind, can you retract? |
40851 | Sir, said Mr. R., whom does this infraction of the treaty and the natural rights of this country most intimately affect? |
40851 | So we are told!--But if there be blame, on whom does it fall? |
40851 | Still, if the gentlemen would not agree with him as to the unconstitutionality of the measure proposed, he would ask, was it expedient? |
40851 | Suppose Georgia had a title to this territory, had not the United States the power of depriving Georgia of it? |
40851 | Suppose a libel were written against the PRESIDENT, where is it most probable that such an offence would receive an impartial trial? |
40851 | Suppose a majority of_ one_ was obtained on the report, what end would be produced? |
40851 | Suppose such an alliance was formed, would it not be said that Congress are bound to carry it into effect? |
40851 | Suppose the PRESIDENT should, after this, appoint officers to enlist men for the frigates, how could the House refuse to pay them? |
40851 | Suppose the persons deny your power-- how are your committee to enforce their mandates? |
40851 | Suppose these taxes are removed, are not the products of the country increasing? |
40851 | Suppose this power is doubted? |
40851 | Suppose we go into a Committee of the Whole, what light can we expect from their deliberation? |
40851 | Suppose we pass a law which calls upon the PRESIDENT to act, what ought the PRESIDENT to do? |
40851 | Suppose you had no law at all, could the rich oppress the poor? |
40851 | Suppose your courts of law claim cognizance as a case of libel, are you to have two prosecutions and two trials for the same offence? |
40851 | Suppose your reliance had been altogether on this broken staff, and not on the elective principle? |
40851 | Suppose, as the gentlemen wish, we say we will indemnify, does that pay the claims? |
40851 | Suppose, said Mr. H., we were to give thirty thousand dollars towards this loss, what would it be when divided among the whole Union? |
40851 | Suppose, said he, persons should claim to be Electors, who had never been_ properly_ appointed, should their vote be received? |
40851 | Surely it would not; and is it not the duty of every good citizen to heal, as far as possible, the wounds of society? |
40851 | That he would be punishable for concealing a treason who could not be punished for plotting it? |
40851 | That the moment they throw off the French yoke, they will receive all the assistance from this country which a free commerce can give them? |
40851 | The CHAIRMAN asked what Message? |
40851 | The SPEAKER asked, whether it was the pleasure of the House that the Sergeant- at- arms should be sent for Mr. LYON? |
40851 | The SPEAKER said the question was, whether it should be committed or not? |
40851 | The SPEAKER said, then you do accordingly agree to this proposition? |
40851 | The United States intend to exercise jurisdiction over that Territory, and was there any more reason for excepting this jurisdiction than any other? |
40851 | The bill having been determined to be read a third time, the usual question was put by the SPEAKER,"For what day shall it be made the order?" |
40851 | The charge is easily made, but has the gentleman the means of supporting it? |
40851 | The fires at New York, Baltimore, and Charleston, had been mentioned; but what were the means of Savannah when compared with New York? |
40851 | The first inquiry was, whether the law of nations permitted the merchant vessels of neutral nations to arm? |
40851 | The first question was, then, whether that Administration had been marked with wisdom, firmness, and patriotism? |
40851 | The first thing he should ask was, Is such a thing desirable? |
40851 | The following question was then put,"Shall this bill pass?" |
40851 | The gentleman from Connecticut had said, why send a Minister Plenipotentiary to London or Paris, any more than the other Courts? |
40851 | The gentleman from Georgia had objected to the reference because the petition contained a system of facts which_ he said_ was not true? |
40851 | The gentleman from New York has asked, triumphantly asked, what power exists in our courts to deliver up an individual to a foreign Government? |
40851 | The law for authorizing the building of the three frigates? |
40851 | The only question is, How it shall be performed? |
40851 | The only question is, whether it will promote the taking of French privateers? |
40851 | The only question, said he, is, if your property is unjustly attacked, will you defend it? |
40851 | The previous question was then put in this form:"Shall the main question( viz: the resolution for reprimanding the offending members) now be put?" |
40851 | The previous question was then put,"Shall the main question be now put?" |
40851 | The question arises, by what tenure? |
40851 | The question before the House was not, Will we resent it? |
40851 | The question being,"Shall this bill pass?" |
40851 | The question is, what power is thus to be limited and checked? |
40851 | The question was put,"Is the decision of the Chair right?" |
40851 | The question was then put, shall the bill pass? |
40851 | The question was, whether the papers before them afforded reason to believe that legal evidence of the title did exist? |
40851 | The question was, whether they were to go over the same ground every four or eight years of furnishing the house of a new PRESIDENT? |
40851 | The second is, if further provisions are necessary, must they be made by amendment to the constitution? |
40851 | The simple question was, which of the two grounds the House would take? |
40851 | The true question is, were there courts enough under the old system, to do the business of the nation? |
40851 | The truth of these despatches admitted, what was your Government to do? |
40851 | The words are general,"all treasons, felonies,& c."Why are they confined in construction to British subjects? |
40851 | The yeas and nays were taken on the question,"Shall this bill be postponed till the first Monday in December next?" |
40851 | Then gentlemen get up and ask what we are to do with three frigates? |
40851 | Then why postpone it? |
40851 | Then, how could any gentleman say this was a trifling question, and one with which the House had nothing at all to do? |
40851 | These are my objects; do they not entitle us to the information asked? |
40851 | They certainly will not; for who would consent to sit here, or of what use would it be, under such conditions? |
40851 | They could appoint Commissioners to settle the accounts, but could they impose the debts upon the States? |
40851 | They might do, sir, for a tribe of starving Indians; but is this the rank that we are to hold among the nations of the world? |
40851 | This being established, the inquiry was, to what department was the power in question allotted? |
40851 | This being the case, he asked gentlemen which they would choose? |
40851 | This is, Shall the amendment be received or not? |
40851 | This was novel, and what result did it lead to? |
40851 | To calm those irritations which disturb its repose? |
40851 | To deprive them of the common right of participating in the passage of laws which all the citizens enjoyed? |
40851 | To remove all things which may alarm, torment, or exacerbate? |
40851 | To take a fair view of the resolutions, what did they amount to? |
40851 | To the Judiciary: What is the language applied to them? |
40851 | To what point, therefore, could these discussions lead? |
40851 | To what source, then, shall we resort for a knowledge of what constitutes this thing, called misbehavior in office? |
40851 | To what will not this dangerous doctrine lead? |
40851 | To whom are these appearances to be made? |
40851 | To whom are these services to be rendered? |
40851 | To whom were they pledged, and for what? |
40851 | Under all these grievances, what, said he, are we called upon to do? |
40851 | Under these circumstances, Mr. S. wished to know why their petitions should not be taken into consideration? |
40851 | Upon this subject, so very important, are they to be kept in the dark? |
40851 | Upon what ground could he found such charges? |
40851 | Upon what ground does the member from Vermont stand? |
40851 | Wanting wisdom and morals, how would they use it? |
40851 | Was a loan of money accomplished? |
40851 | Was any gentleman in the House bound to be satisfied, with the gentleman from New York, that all the facts necessary to be known were furnished? |
40851 | Was any gentleman prepared to say how many would be made? |
40851 | Was contempt the way to recommend attachment to the Government? |
40851 | Was every gentleman in the House bound to confine himself solely to the resolutions before the House? |
40851 | Was he forgetful of his duty? |
40851 | Was he to determine the point whether France has authorized hostilities against the United States? |
40851 | Was he to send forward to the seat of Government to be instructed what to do? |
40851 | Was he to stand still without making any attempt to avert the danger? |
40851 | Was it a circumstance which must ever be remembered with mortification, and which therefore will never be forgiven? |
40851 | Was it a desirable object to do away a great evil? |
40851 | Was it adopted by the courts? |
40851 | Was it announced to the President of the United States, in the usual forms of civility between nations who duly respect each other? |
40851 | Was it by the constitution? |
40851 | Was it conceivable that to her the place could be of any importance? |
40851 | Was it criminal to say that the Executive is supported by a party? |
40851 | Was it erroneous or criminal to say that debts and taxes were the ruinous consequences of war? |
40851 | Was it in his power to repel and punish the indignity put upon the nation? |
40851 | Was it intended by this resolution to charge the committee with inquiring into a breach of privilege as it respected the majority of this body? |
40851 | Was it not an order to bring France to terms by distressing her islands? |
40851 | Was it not as well to decide on this resolution in this committee as in any other committee? |
40851 | Was it not clear to every one that the country was going fast into a state of war, and( in the words of Mr. SITGREAVES) was it not to be expected? |
40851 | Was it not probable then, he would ask, that the PRESIDENT would proceed to complete those frigates, according to the power given him? |
40851 | Was it not to be supposed that contracts were entered into for that purpose? |
40851 | Was it not true? |
40851 | Was it not, therefore, prudent to keep a watchful eye in this respect? |
40851 | Was it possible, he asked, for a Government to exist, when this confidence was refused to one of its branches? |
40851 | Was it proper for this country, he asked, to turn its attention towards marine strength? |
40851 | Was it that the members of Congress were assembled on the banks of the Potomac, with Virginia in view on the other side? |
40851 | Was it the opinion of those gentlemen that the record was to be found in the charge of murder against that illustrious character? |
40851 | Was it the sense of that House? |
40851 | Was it warranted by any act of Congress, or by the practice of the State? |
40851 | Was it when three- fourths or four- fifths of a town was destroyed, or what other proportion? |
40851 | Was it, that one of the candidates was a Virginian? |
40851 | Was not every advance, on our part, for an adjustment of differences, met with new injuries and new insults? |
40851 | Was not such an opinion of things, he asked, calculated to induce France to believe that she might make her own terms with us? |
40851 | Was not this, he said, encouragement to put a period to that man''s existence? |
40851 | Was not, then, this spot become the permanent seat of the Government of the Union? |
40851 | Was official notice of it given to the Government of this country? |
40851 | Was that opinion then correct, and now false, in the estimation of gentlemen? |
40851 | Was the President of the United States the clerk of the court, to keep the records of it? |
40851 | Was the argument not in point; or was it the declaration of his own opinion, as he went along, that was out of order? |
40851 | Was the gentleman serious when he made this remark? |
40851 | Was the gentleman, sir, acquainted with the fact when he made this statement? |
40851 | Was the intention of the committee to have reference to the taking of free negroes and selling them as slaves, or the taking slaves to make them free? |
40851 | Was the memory of that great man to be perpetuated by a heap of large inanimate objects? |
40851 | Was then, he asked, a question of war a card of politeness? |
40851 | Was there any reason since to alter our opinion? |
40851 | Was there any thing in these men, he asked, that should prevent every kind of assistance being bestowed on them? |
40851 | Was there not cause for anxiety, when a nation, contending for the right of self- government, was thus attacked? |
40851 | Was there nothing, Mr. R. asked, to admonish us to take a measure of this kind? |
40851 | Was there nothing, he asked, which called for a declaration of the kind proposed? |
40851 | Was this decent or indecent? |
40851 | Was this defensive? |
40851 | Was this indecent in them? |
40851 | Was this indecent? |
40851 | Was this, he asked, the state of society? |
40851 | We are asked by the gentleman from Virginia if the people want judges to protect them? |
40851 | We are asked, why relinquish these balances before we are solicited by the States? |
40851 | We are averse to take up the motion of the gentleman from Connecticut, and wherefore? |
40851 | We asked if cards of hospitality were in the mean time necessary? |
40851 | We asked what had led to our present conversation? |
40851 | We have been asked, if we are afraid of having an army of judges? |
40851 | We may tell him of his wisdom and his firmness, but what of all that unless we connect it with his Administration? |
40851 | Were his nerves unstrung? |
40851 | Were not gentlemen any longer to express their difference of opinion? |
40851 | Were not the Detroit, and several other forts within our territory, held ten or a dozen years by Great Britain, in direct violation of a treaty? |
40851 | Were not the different departments, Executive, Legislative, and Judicial, assembled, according to the constitution, in this District? |
40851 | Were there none of these judges ready to plunge their swords in the American heart? |
40851 | Were there not great doubts existing throughout the United States? |
40851 | Were they asleep on their post? |
40851 | Were they not, then, to be called upon for money to man the frigates? |
40851 | Were they so at present? |
40851 | Were they then to act as if the law had been repealed? |
40851 | Were they to go to war to avenge this partition? |
40851 | Were troops ever raised in a different manner? |
40851 | Were we to give up our commerce? |
40851 | Were we to suppose that the President had already taken measures to_ revenge_ the injuries of the United States? |
40851 | What advantage, he asked, was derived to this country from giving aliens eligibility to office? |
40851 | What an affecting spectacle had we the other day of sixty of these unfortunate men returning from Algerine slavery? |
40851 | What an influence can she command over our commerce? |
40851 | What are the reasons urged by the gentlemen to induce a different proceeding, an immediate appeal to arms? |
40851 | What are their duties? |
40851 | What are they given for? |
40851 | What are we to understand by this remark of the gentleman? |
40851 | What are we to understand by this right, given by God and nature? |
40851 | What avail our toasts-- our boasted recollections of him, and regret at his fate-- if we take not every opportunity to alleviate that distress? |
40851 | What but this compact-- what but this specific part of it, can save us from ruin? |
40851 | What circle would gentlemen fix the committee in to amend this Address, if they are not to give scope to these sentiments? |
40851 | What connection had we with the French Government? |
40851 | What could be more easy? |
40851 | What could have been the reason why Congress was to assume this exclusive legislation? |
40851 | What did the gentleman mean by avoiding the general principle? |
40851 | What disguise? |
40851 | What do gentlemen understand by"the freedom of speech and of the press?" |
40851 | What do the gentlemen tell us? |
40851 | What do we know respecting the cession? |
40851 | What does all this mean, sir? |
40851 | What does the constitution say? |
40851 | What does the resolution call for? |
40851 | What effect could a discussion have, but to show the world that there were_ parties_ in the House, and to raise a rancorous disposition? |
40851 | What fact? |
40851 | What had the President to do with the proceedings of that court? |
40851 | What had the States to dread? |
40851 | What has been our progress since the year 1763, in settling our Western country? |
40851 | What has the fact been? |
40851 | What have we to fear, suppose we interfere with that sensibility? |
40851 | What is his character as a lawyer? |
40851 | What is his offer to our Government? |
40851 | What is it that has drained the wealth of Europe itself into the coffers of two or three of its principal commercial powers, but a marine? |
40851 | What is it, that has drawn to Europe the superfluous riches of the three other quarters of the globe, but a marine? |
40851 | What is its nature? |
40851 | What is its purport? |
40851 | What is liberty of conscience? |
40851 | What is that crime? |
40851 | What is the abstract question? |
40851 | What is the ancient system? |
40851 | What is the consequence of one sovereign transferring all jurisdiction to another sovereign? |
40851 | What is the consequence? |
40851 | What is the fact? |
40851 | What is the implication of this doctrine? |
40851 | What is the inevitable deduction to be drawn from this fact? |
40851 | What is the inference? |
40851 | What is the internal and external state of this country? |
40851 | What is the object of the gentleman from Delaware? |
40851 | What is the practice? |
40851 | What is the present system? |
40851 | What is the probable result? |
40851 | What is the situation of the powers that remain? |
40851 | What is the state of things? |
40851 | What is the true and undisguised state of facts? |
40851 | What is there here that implicates the character of Spain? |
40851 | What is there then exhibited from the earliest period of our history? |
40851 | What is this encouragement? |
40851 | What is this population? |
40851 | What manifestation was there of the public will relative to the late election of a President of the United States? |
40851 | What may we then expect? |
40851 | What might be the consequence? |
40851 | What more does the gentleman wish? |
40851 | What more, then, can you do, than decide the principle which shall be applied to them? |
40851 | What objections could there be to this? |
40851 | What ought the government to have done? |
40851 | What power does a court possess to seize any individual and determine that he shall be adjudged by a foreign tribunal? |
40851 | What provision have they made to fulfil that intention? |
40851 | What right had they to exclusive seats? |
40851 | What saving, then, does he mean to make by opposing the establishment of this office? |
40851 | What should be thought of this, as taken in connection with the fate of the act and pendency of the Presidential election? |
40851 | What temper accompanied the progress of the bill in the other House I know not, or, if I did know, would it be proper for me here to say? |
40851 | What then was the difference of right between them? |
40851 | What then was to be done with them? |
40851 | What then, I ask, is the amount of this savage conduct? |
40851 | What then? |
40851 | What use can it be to take a step from which no benefit can be derived? |
40851 | What was meant here? |
40851 | What was more easy than for letters and instructions to be sent by post? |
40851 | What was the General to do? |
40851 | What was the consequence of this spirited conduct? |
40851 | What was the effect of this provision in the constitution? |
40851 | What was the engine now brought out against this freedom-- an engine possessed of all the powers necessary to ensure its success? |
40851 | What was the fact at Philadelphia? |
40851 | What was the fact? |
40851 | What was the language of the amendment? |
40851 | What was the language of the present appropriation? |
40851 | What was the object of the bill? |
40851 | What was the objection to this mode of proceeding? |
40851 | What was then the conduct of the French Government? |
40851 | What was to be done? |
40851 | What was to be the course of their proceeding? |
40851 | What were the arguments in favor of the warm tone? |
40851 | What were the committee to do? |
40851 | What were the consequences of our late negotiation? |
40851 | What were the embarrassments likely to arise therein? |
40851 | What were the people of the United States, and abroad, to think of this? |
40851 | What were they about to ask? |
40851 | What were we to substitute as complimentary to him in its place? |
40851 | What will be the effect if we have it told at our wharves that we object to man them, because we have peace with Algiers? |
40851 | What will be the effect of the desired repeal? |
40851 | What will be the effect on the Southern States? |
40851 | What will be the good of this? |
40851 | What will hinder them from arriving in the Floridas, and what can guard the approach from thence to our Southern frontier? |
40851 | What will you say to this? |
40851 | What would be the effect of this law on the inhabitants of the Territory? |
40851 | What would be the language, what would be the feelings of gentlemen in this House, were such an indignity offered on the Atlantic coast? |
40851 | What would become, in such a state of things, of the national debt, and all the banks in the United States? |
40851 | What would gentlemen have had the Government to do? |
40851 | What would they say if the Chesapeake, the Delaware, or the Bay of New York were shut up, and all egress prohibited by a foreign power? |
40851 | What, Mr. S. asked, would be the consequence of refusing this appropriation? |
40851 | What, asked Mr. P., was the ground taken at the last session, and acted upon at this? |
40851 | What, he asked, could be obtained by a vote on this subject? |
40851 | What, he asked, is the situation of the West Indies? |
40851 | What, he asked, was intended to be done with these armed vessels? |
40851 | What, he asked, was the letter which the gentleman read from his book? |
40851 | What, he asked, were to be the instructions given to the commanders of these vessels? |
40851 | What, he asked, would the world think of such a versatility of conduct? |
40851 | What, indeed, could such committee report? |
40851 | What, said Mr. B., is this present? |
40851 | What, said Mr. C., is the nature of the injuries which we have received from France? |
40851 | What, said Mr. G., are the inconveniences which would arise from a measure of this kind? |
40851 | What, said Mr. G., would be the degree of proof necessary to carry into effect this law? |
40851 | What, said Mr. R., would be the conduct of France, if in our situation? |
40851 | What, said Mr. S., is to be feared from the residence of aliens amongst us? |
40851 | What, said he, have they said to our Minister-- or rather to the person who was formerly our Minister, but who then had no power? |
40851 | What, said he, is most prudent to do? |
40851 | What, said he, is our external situation? |
40851 | What, said he, is the nature of the crime now proposed to be punished by the expulsion of the member from Vermont? |
40851 | What, said he, is the situation of the North- western Territory at this time? |
40851 | What, said he, is the situation of those countries which have gone into the establishment of large navies? |
40851 | What, said he, is to prevent Victor Hugues sending over two or three frigates? |
40851 | What, sir, has been done? |
40851 | What, sir, was the policy of America, from the commencement of the Revolution? |
40851 | What, then, Mr. Chairman, is the instruction which we may draw from this example? |
40851 | What, then, is substantially the nature of this appellate jurisdiction? |
40851 | What, then, is the nature of the amendment? |
40851 | What, then, is the rational, the honest, the constitutional idea of freedom of language or of conduct? |
40851 | What, then, is their aim? |
40851 | What, then, said Mr. D., are our hopes relative to France? |
40851 | When did the right of the President to recommend modifications of the Judiciary system cease? |
40851 | When gentlemen ask, What is the question? |
40851 | When it goes up to the Senate, may they not say they will not vote to finish, except it be to man them? |
40851 | When that very power from which we had detached ourselves, refused to carry her treaty into execution, did we then go to war? |
40851 | When the Indians were upon them, what could the Governor do? |
40851 | When the subject is sent to the committee with that instruction, can it be conceived that committee is forced to report a bill? |
40851 | When the term approached, the inquiry was, what judge are we to have? |
40851 | When was this jurisdiction to commence but at the period when the General Government should occupy it? |
40851 | When we reflect on a Treaty entered into on this principle with Great Britain, should France complain? |
40851 | When, too, the opinions of other gentlemen on fundamental points coincided with your own? |
40851 | When? |
40851 | Whence did he collect this information? |
40851 | Whence is it that the United States may abrogate the treaties with France? |
40851 | Whence now this change of spirit? |
40851 | Whence, then, the necessity of such appointment? |
40851 | Whenever we supposed the constitution violated, did we talk of civil war? |
40851 | Where could they be carried? |
40851 | Where is Italy, Switzerland, Flanders, and all Germany west of the Rhine? |
40851 | Where is the liberty of the press, which is secured to the citizens of the Union against Federal usurpation? |
40851 | Where is the man, exclaimed he, who will not defend his country and his fellow- citizens against such a decree? |
40851 | Where is the nation that will respect another that is passive under such humiliating degradation and disgrace? |
40851 | Where is the nation, ancient or modern, that has borne such treatment without resentment of resistance? |
40851 | Where was Hercules, that he did not crush this den of robbers that broke into the sanctuary of the constitution? |
40851 | Where was the gentleman from New York, who has, on this debate, made such a noble stand in favor of a violated constitution? |
40851 | Where was the_ Ajax Telamon_ of his party, or, to use his own more correct expression, the_ faction_ to which he belonged? |
40851 | Where was their security if the acts of these Representatives of the people could be to- morrow revoked by a power deriving authority from elsewhere? |
40851 | Where were these guardians of the constitution-- these vigilant sentinels of our rights and liberties, when this law passed? |
40851 | Where will you find men of nerve that will risk certain ruin? |
40851 | Where, he asked, is the difference between depending upon the French or British nation? |
40851 | Where, said he, are your sailors? |
40851 | Wherein have we differed from the compact made with France by our treaty made with that country? |
40851 | Whether he is in any way connected with the British Government, or not? |
40851 | Whether his ideas go to independence or not? |
40851 | Whether it is consistent with the nature of our Government, that a single branch, without check or control, should become judges in their own case? |
40851 | Whether so much as provides that the second article shall be expunged, shall stand? |
40851 | Whether so much as provides that the third article be expunged, shall stand? |
40851 | Whether that part shall stand which provides a limitation of time to its duration? |
40851 | Whether that part shall stand which restrains it from operating against former treaties? |
40851 | Whether the abilities of Government would be competent to meet all possible claims of this nature? |
40851 | Whether the constitution had not delegated the power of making treaties to other branches of the Government? |
40851 | Whether they would suffer themselves to come under the power of the French nation, or repel force by force? |
40851 | Which situation is it most for the interest of the United States that they should be in? |
40851 | Who are its enemies? |
40851 | Who are to decide between the constitution and the acts of Congress? |
40851 | Who are to judge? |
40851 | Who are to pronounce on the laws? |
40851 | Who can prevent that? |
40851 | Who can say that Mr. Gerry has power to treat alone, or that the French Government is willing to treat with him on fair and honorable terms? |
40851 | Who can show me in what other manner the same good can be effected by so small a sum? |
40851 | Who gave them the power to vest in any other authority than in Congress the right of declaring war? |
40851 | Who is so ignorant as not to know, that the imposition of a tax would create a hundred enemies for one friend? |
40851 | Who is to judge of the necessity or utility of these services? |
40851 | Who knows but the power in whose custody he is may expect America to interest herself in his favor? |
40851 | Who said this? |
40851 | Who shall fix the boundaries of these new empires, when the fatal separation shall take place? |
40851 | Who was it, that, in England, destroyed the Representative Government, and concentrated all its powers in his own hands? |
40851 | Who will confide in, who will be bound by their decrees? |
40851 | Who will declare whether they be unconstitutional? |
40851 | Who will venture on it; because, where will you draw the line? |
40851 | Who would withhold a few dollars from his purse to facilitate it? |
40851 | Who, said he, is the man who has this proof? |
40851 | Who, sir, I would ask the gentleman, are my coadjutors? |
40851 | Who, sir, proved fatal to the liberties of Rome? |
40851 | Who, then, are, in reality, the advocates of a limited authority, and who are the champions of a dangerous and uncontrollable power? |
40851 | Why are we told of the inconsistency of our means? |
40851 | Why can not they obtain this power which is asked of us of the State where it is wanted? |
40851 | Why combine it with considerations connected with negotiation? |
40851 | Why did they commit spoliations upon our commerce long before the British Treaty was ever dreamt of? |
40851 | Why do gentlemen tell the House of the danger of irritating France? |
40851 | Why do not gentlemen give away that which they have some authority or right to bestow? |
40851 | Why do not these"express acts of Parliament"change the law as to others than"British subjects?" |
40851 | Why do we hear of such things on this floor? |
40851 | Why do we want information, but that we may have a more clear view of the general subject? |
40851 | Why does the PRESIDENT communicate these things to us, if we are not allowed to express any sentiments about them? |
40851 | Why give one a privilege more than another? |
40851 | Why has he first learnt this offensive act from those who suffer by it? |
40851 | Why has this document been so sedulously kept from the public eye? |
40851 | Why insinuate that the Government had been wrong? |
40851 | Why is he thus held up to contempt and derision? |
40851 | Why is it now deemed requisite to abrogate the treaties by which this country has been connected with France? |
40851 | Why is it refused to the Federal Constitution? |
40851 | Why is the gentleman from Pennsylvania so very anxious on the subject? |
40851 | Why is this practice, hitherto unopposed, now to be broken in upon? |
40851 | Why lock him up there? |
40851 | Why not decide its other proportions? |
40851 | Why not furnish the American people at once with the real and the whole project of himself and his friends? |
40851 | Why not seize then what is so essential to us as a nation? |
40851 | Why not then restore the people to their former condition? |
40851 | Why object then, in a case where there was a difference of opinion, to refer the decision to an impartial tribunal? |
40851 | Why pass acts fitted for a state of war, without declaring that that is the state of the country? |
40851 | Why postpone it? |
40851 | Why prevent his being able to support his family? |
40851 | Why send him to jail? |
40851 | Why should a heavy fine and imprisonment be made the penalty for carrying on a trade so advantageous? |
40851 | Why should it not be sent there, and a profitable return be made? |
40851 | Why should the House trouble itself to sanction any particular work? |
40851 | Why should the individual members of either branch, or either branch itself, have more privileges than him? |
40851 | Why silent on the Legislature? |
40851 | Why such declamation? |
40851 | Why take it to a select committee? |
40851 | Why then divide it into little detached parts? |
40851 | Why then do gentlemen, who on those occasions approved of these measures, now despair of negotiation? |
40851 | Why then go into a committee? |
40851 | Why then put off the decision of a claim in his opinion just, and to which the House ought not to shut their ears? |
40851 | Why this provision? |
40851 | Why was that State to be selected out from all others? |
40851 | Why was the boundary of the United States always fixed at 31? |
40851 | Why were they silent till within a few weeks before the election of our President? |
40851 | Why, asked Mr. N., was this law originally passed? |
40851 | Why, he asked, did foreigners seek a residence in this country? |
40851 | Why, is there any crime in printing a minute of our transactions? |
40851 | Why, said he, shall we, who are a Confederacy of the Democratic Republicans, everlastingly keep our eyes upon the pageantry of Eastern Courts? |
40851 | Why, then, ask for it? |
40851 | Why, then, do gentlemen complain? |
40851 | Why, then, endeavor to stir up the feelings of the public against it by alleging it to be just cause of complaint? |
40851 | Why, then, mask his proposition? |
40851 | Why, then, refer this resolution calling for information to a committee? |
40851 | Why, then, rise for the purpose of referring it to a secret committee? |
40851 | Why, then, shall we proceed to measures which must inevitably involve the country in war? |
40851 | Why, then, should we hazard the being involved in European broils? |
40851 | Why? |
40851 | Why? |
40851 | Why? |
40851 | Will any gentleman say it is for our personal convenience that the seat of Government is now at this place? |
40851 | Will any man undertake to say, that the privilege of the Parliament of Great Britain ought to be that of the Congress of this country? |
40851 | Will any one say that a man who does not keep the laws ought to be allowed to make them? |
40851 | Will gentlemen look back to the histories of other countries, and then tell us the people here have nothing to apprehend from themselves? |
40851 | Will gentlemen say it is to be found in the force of this wise precedent? |
40851 | Will gentlemen say that the same liberty of writing and speaking did not exist then that now exists? |
40851 | Will gentlemen say they will pay all demands before they know any thing of their nature or amount? |
40851 | Will gentlemen sit here and shut their eyes to the state and condition of their country? |
40851 | Will he deny that this was a measure to which we had been urged for years by our adversaries, because they foresaw in it the ruin of Federal power? |
40851 | Will he say that premises and conclusions are the same thing? |
40851 | Will it be contended that such great trusts ought to be reposed in feeble or incapable hands? |
40851 | Will it be expected, that I should quote Sidney, De Lolme, Montesquieu, and a host of elementary writers, to prove this assertion? |
40851 | Will it be made a question whether it is proper to ask for information? |
40851 | Will it be said that there is a security to the freedom of mankind from the moderation with which this enormous power is to be exercised? |
40851 | Will it be said, that although you can not remove the judge from office, yet you can remove his office from him? |
40851 | Will it not be a declaration to the remaining judges that they hold their offices subject to your will and pleasure? |
40851 | Will it not manifest more magnanimity, more rationality, to abide by it until we try it; instead of taking up a pen and dashing it out of existence? |
40851 | Will the adoption of these resolutions give us a single ship or gun? |
40851 | Will the gentleman say, that the direct tax was laid in order to enlarge the bounds of patronage? |
40851 | Will the gentlemen say that these judges are ambassadors, other public ministers or consuls, or that they are a state? |
40851 | Will the judges rudely declare that you have violated the constitution, unmindful of your duty, and regardless of your oath? |
40851 | Will the present repeal of the internal taxes interfere with the doing substantial justice to our merchants? |
40851 | Will the same navy be more efficacious in our case, than in the case of Holland, or Spain, or Portugal? |
40851 | Will these resolutions, then, said he, if adopted, tend to this point? |
40851 | Will they not say the President has done his duty in stating the fact? |
40851 | Will they remedy the evil by excluding the stenographers from places within the bar? |
40851 | Will this Government not be chargeable with having assisted in detaching such a colony from its Government? |
40851 | Will this satisfy the just expectation of our country? |
40851 | Will we not be classed with the robbers and destroyers of mankind? |
40851 | Will you call the militia from the North to assist their Southern brethren? |
40851 | Will you give up commerce, or build a Navy to protect it? |
40851 | Will you not, then, be obliged to make a general provision that all claims, so circumstanced, shall be allowed? |
40851 | Will you remember, sir, that they held the power of life and death, without appeal? |
40851 | Will you secure their seasonable aid, bring them early to the fields they are ordered to defend? |
40851 | Will you then confine the President, in relation to these powers, to a Peace Establishment? |
40851 | Will, then, Mr. Chairman, any gentleman hesitate a moment to pronounce the rule of apportionment which was adopted unjust, unequal, and erroneous? |
40851 | With all the deference to their talents, is not Congress as capable of forming a correct opinion as they are? |
40851 | With respect to the motion, Mr. L. asked, to whom was application to be made? |
40851 | With respect to the price of salt at Fort Pitt, as a gentleman had observed, it might be high, but was this occasioned by a duty? |
40851 | With that meek and peaceful spirit now so strongly recommended, we submitted to this insult, and what followed? |
40851 | With this knowledge, so plainly derivable from the policy pursued by the Legislature, what was the Secretary of the Navy to do? |
40851 | Without meeting? |
40851 | Wonderful indeed is this sudden disposition to confidence? |
40851 | Would any gentleman say that it was policy not to legislate about 700,000 enemies in the very body of the United States? |
40851 | Would any man, said Mr. H., who shall read this passage, say that the system of these gentlemen is a peace system? |
40851 | Would any person deny that, through the agency of the Executive, constitutionally exercised, the injury was redressed? |
40851 | Would calmness be consistent if entering wedges were prepared to ruin the property of whole estates? |
40851 | Would conduct like this comport with the gentleman''s ideas of national honor, about which we have heard so much in the course of this debate? |
40851 | Would gentlemen feel calm if measures were taken to destroy most of their property? |
40851 | Would gentlemen say that the Executive ought to appoint persons to office who professed an opinion contrary to its own? |
40851 | Would he have had the people of the United States relinquish without a struggle those liberties which had cost so much blood and treasure? |
40851 | Would he march at the head of the_ posse comitatus_? |
40851 | Would he place the memory of WASHINGTON on a footing with that of a rich man''s mistress? |
40851 | Would it be more respectful that an answer should be sent by this House, which, for want of time, had not been sufficiently considered? |
40851 | Would it have been a proper return for the unanimity with which your committee was chosen? |
40851 | Would it have tended to conciliate? |
40851 | Would it not be absurd still to say, that the removed judge held his office during good behavior? |
40851 | Would it not involve an inconsistency, that ought not certainly to be chargeable upon the framers of the constitution? |
40851 | Would it not place the Territory in the situation of a conquered country? |
40851 | Would not public opinion be as ready to sanction the one as the other of these detestable acts? |
40851 | Would not such a procedure subject us to the just censure of the world, and to the strongest jealousy of those who have possessions near to us? |
40851 | Would not the French say, if they were applied to for redress,"You knew these were pirates; why did you not defend yourselves against them?" |
40851 | Would not the House have contravened the constitution, by taking from the President the power which by it is placed in him? |
40851 | Would not the people of this country think it their duty to destroy a power which could not be trusted; and would not foreigners despise it? |
40851 | Would not these two give to the legislature a majority? |
40851 | Would not this be a most extraordinary doctrine? |
40851 | Would not this be to acknowledge that there our regulation pinched her? |
40851 | Would not this be to impair the tenure of the office which was abolished, or to which another officer might have been appointed by a new regulation? |
40851 | Would such a procedure meet the approbation of even our own citizens, whose lives and fortunes would be risked in the conflict? |
40851 | Would the civil jurisdiction of the town have repelled the bayonet? |
40851 | Would the committee be willing that Savannah should be erased from the revenue? |
40851 | Would the decree stop the importation of British goods? |
40851 | Would the gentleman yet wish to leave the District without laws, and merely lest it should take away their suffrage? |
40851 | Would the gentleman, then, inform the House what point he wished to ascertain, or in what he expected additional proof? |
40851 | Would there be a power in Virginia and Maryland, if receded, to prevent a resumption? |
40851 | Would they admit that he falsely made the claim? |
40851 | Would they discard the property of that class of citizens who depended upon it for their support and their wealth? |
40851 | Would they not laugh at you when you told them their term of office was out? |
40851 | Would they not say, in the language of the gentleman from New York, though the law that creates us is temporary, we are in by the constitution? |
40851 | Would they not say, we belong to inferior courts? |
40851 | Would this be the way to keep the Government together, or to preserve harmony in the country? |
40851 | Would you annihilate a system because some men under part of it had acted wrong? |
40851 | Would you know the sentiment of England? |
40851 | Would your national honor be free from imputation by a conduct of such inconsistency and duplicity? |
40851 | Yes, he would answer; else how could an appropriation in general terms have been made for the intercourse with foreign nations? |
40851 | Yes, sir, we wish for peace; but how is that blessing to be preserved? |
40851 | Yet, what superior advantage have they in the Government generally? |
40851 | You are to inquire how he became possessed of a certain bill which he published; what kind of an inquiry is this? |
40851 | Your press might have been enchained till doomsday, your citizens incarcerated for life, and where is your remedy? |
40851 | [ Mr. ALLEN exclaimed, who said it?] |
40851 | [ Mr. HARPER asked if there was any question before the committee?] |
40851 | [ Mr. OTIS asked who were to be the judges?] |
40851 | [ Mr. RUTLEDGE asked whether this had been done? |
40851 | and are not our resources increasing with our population? |
40851 | and asking those whose duty it was to inquire, is there no sedition here? |
40851 | and did he not see that that would be a check upon the abuse of it in either House, since it was a weapon which both could use? |
40851 | and have we not done all we can conveniently do for the defence of our commerce? |
40851 | and if the effect of his resolution should be to show that the stipulations are injurious to our rights, would he know how to act? |
40851 | and in what cases they were to defend themselves? |
40851 | and of course are we not prohibited from establishing one system in one place, and a different system in another? |
40851 | and that however flagrant that abuse of power, it is remediless, and must be submitted to? |
40851 | and whether, if they do say so, the fact ought not to be inquired into? |
40851 | and will you punish every man who shall repeat, print, or publish what is made public on this floor? |
40851 | and, if Congress had that cognizance before that time, have those amendments taken it away? |
40851 | asked, could be placed in a nation which one day makes a treaty, and the next violates it? |
40851 | but I do not think it is any evil; would he have these people turned out in the United States to ravage, murder, and commit every species of crime? |
40851 | conquer France? |
40851 | did the Government say it? |
40851 | for money from the poor without law? |
40851 | is it no crime to publish a bill while before this House? |
40851 | is it possible that I have heard such a sentiment in this body? |
40851 | on the duties which he now pays? |
40851 | on what did this claim rest? |
40851 | or a murder committed on board such a frigate, against the peace of any other than the British Government? |
40851 | or in a court independent of any influence whatever? |
40851 | or what connection had we with, any other, besides commercial? |
40851 | or, Thirdly, whether they can be made by law? |
40851 | said Mr. S., would it be to carry humility in his front to say,"I come to place you on the same footing with the most favored nation?" |
40851 | said he, can it be supposed that three frigates would give us that ridiculous kind of spirit which would induce us at any rate to go to war? |
40851 | to collect it; but what was twenty- five compared with three hundred per cent.? |
40851 | was it not enough to submit to injury; shall we not only receive the stripes, but kiss the rod that inflicts them? |
40851 | with restrictions, perhaps, to guard against the fraudulent usurpation of our flag? |
40499 | If it should be the judgment of Congress that it would be most expedient--what can be more explicit than this language? |
40499 | In this case, shall a secure port be stipulated, and the pecuniary and honorary considerations granted? |
40499 | --The question, I apprehend, is whether we will take the petition up for a second reading, and not whether it shall be committed? |
40499 | 112; difficult to see where the danger lies, 112; what is meant by responsibility? |
40499 | 116; is five thousand dollars in proportion to the services of the Vice President? |
40499 | 197; can two parties exist in a well organized government to dispute about property and have no judge? |
40499 | 197; is not the want of consideration a good plea? |
40499 | 230; plans of the friends of emancipation, 231; negroes are inferior race, 231; slavery is no new thing, 231; does slavery weaken the Southern States? |
40499 | 231; is public opinion against slavery? |
40499 | 232; this squeamishness is very extraordinary, 232; consequences of emancipation, 233; if importation prohibited, will that species become extinct? |
40499 | 233; does slavery vitiate and debase the mind of the owner? |
40499 | 233; does toleration of slavery bring reproach on America? |
40499 | 233; will the abolition strengthen South Carolina? |
40499 | 234; was South Carolina wanting in patriotism? |
40499 | 318; peace concluded April, 1783, 318; what was the intention of the parties in this contract? |
40499 | 318; what does the law of nations say? |
40499 | 318; when did the war end? |
40499 | 324; is it expedient to do it? |
40499 | 59; what are the objects of Government-- revenue one of the first? |
40499 | 647; view of legislative and treaty- making powers, 648; how is the will of the people expressed in the constitution to be understood? |
40499 | 676; is it paramount to a law, and can it repeal law, although itself can not be acted upon by the legislative power? |
40499 | 89; the power of removal exists somewhere, and where? |
40499 | A Treaty is a bargain between nations binding in good faith; and what makes a bargain? |
40499 | A gentleman has asked, what is meant by responsibility? |
40499 | A gentleman has said, that Parliament interfered, not to violate, but to perfect the contract: but what did Parliament do? |
40499 | A sufficient force must be raised for their defence; and the only question now to be considered is, what that force shall be? |
40499 | AMES.--I wish the committee may consider, with the attention the subject demands, whether the duties are too high or not? |
40499 | AMES.--If we are to go to war, will it not be a prodigious saving of expense to have all matters ready beforehand? |
40499 | After a silence of some minutes, Mr. LIVERMORE asked, what part of the report it was expected that gentlemen should speak to? |
40499 | After all, however, should the unlimited powers he had mentioned( and such powers must always be unlimited) be wantonly abused, was there no remedy? |
40499 | After having thus formed his opinion relative to the Treaty, his next inquiry was, is the Treaty constitutional? |
40499 | After these preliminary observations, Mr. H. proceeded to inquire, not what ought to be, but what was the Constitution of the United States? |
40499 | Again, what may be the result of the precedent relating to the session of Congress? |
40499 | Also, gentlemen declared they would not recede from their former determinations; did they expect that the majority would recede? |
40499 | And On the previous question,"Shall the said main question be now put?" |
40499 | And although the excise may be somewhat unpopular, although money may still be wanted; what is the excise? |
40499 | And are we( said Mr. S.) to stand up here, and tell the world that we dare not perform an act of benevolence? |
40499 | And are we, meanwhile, to remain inactive and irresolute, and make no efforts to repel their intended attacks? |
40499 | And between the Vice President and the Senate? |
40499 | And can an act possibly meet the disapprobation of a single person which does not infringe his rights, and which puts money into his pocket? |
40499 | And can not he infuse his dangerous and specious arguments and information into them as well in the closet, as by a public and official communication? |
40499 | And can we be so unreasonable as to suppose that they would ever consent to a Treaty that had not such terms of reciprocity? |
40499 | And demanded, if, by the purchase, they were divested of that quality? |
40499 | And did the United States pass laws to punish the counterfeiting the notes of that bank? |
40499 | And do not all those nations, as well as every other, come into our ports on the same terms with the British? |
40499 | And do we, in the last case, say to these unfortunate sufferers, commence suits against those who have injured you? |
40499 | And does not the constitution expressly declare that the House solely shall exercise the power of originating revenue bills? |
40499 | And had all their professions been only a veil to hide their love of power? |
40499 | And had the prosecution succeeded, would the Secretary have had an appeal to the public? |
40499 | And have we not the volunteers, sir, in this country to protect our rights? |
40499 | And here he would inquire if the Codorus Creek, which runs through Yorktown into the Susquehanna, was, or could be made navigable? |
40499 | And how can you discriminate such claims from those rising from savage depredations on your frontier settlers? |
40499 | And how would it be relished by them? |
40499 | And if they are given up, how are we to form seamen to man our future navy? |
40499 | And if war had been the consequence, how were we to have recovered the amount of the spoliations committed on the property of our merchants? |
40499 | And if, of right, they can carry these into effect, will they regard the means, though they be expressly pointed out? |
40499 | And if, under these circumstances, abused, would the injury be more tolerable? |
40499 | And is it not a principle that taxation and representation ought to go hand and hand? |
40499 | And is it not strange? |
40499 | And is not the sum now proposed more than either the first or last holder, till within these few days, supposed would be paid him? |
40499 | And is not the sum now proposed, more than either the first or last assignee ever contemplated, till within a few days past, would ever be paid him? |
40499 | And is this indiscriminate charge, without the least respect to characters, a decent or a just return for a conduct like this? |
40499 | And on the previous question,"Shall the main question be now put?" |
40499 | And on the previous question,"Shall the said main question be now put?" |
40499 | And on the question, Shall the main question be now put? |
40499 | And on the question, shall the main question be now put? |
40499 | And pray, sir, what in the world is equal to it? |
40499 | And shall we now hesitate, and tamely suffer them to dictate to us? |
40499 | And the question was then put, Shall this bill be rejected? |
40499 | And then the main question being put, Do the House agree to the said third resolution, as reported by the Committee of the whole House? |
40499 | And then the main question,"That the House do agree to the said resolution?" |
40499 | And to guard herself against such measures, may we not expect she will lay her hand upon all our property on the ocean? |
40499 | And were they not partial ministers of their own acknowledged principles? |
40499 | And were they to judge for the whole Continent? |
40499 | And what might not be the consequence of their awakening from their lethargy? |
40499 | And what must be their astonishment when they hear that some people amongst us think that Great Britain has conferred no favor upon us by doing it? |
40499 | And what was the slender basis on which the presumption was built? |
40499 | And what, sir, would otherwise be the result? |
40499 | And whether certain tracts of land should be reserved by Congress for certain purposes? |
40499 | And whom, sir, do we mean to gratify? |
40499 | And why depend on Portugal? |
40499 | And why, let me ask, shall we go and fix upon the banks of a rapid river, when we can have a more healthful situation? |
40499 | And will the enemy wait till they can be collected? |
40499 | And would gentlemen say that the negotiation had not been attended with beneficial consequences to this country? |
40499 | And would not this be a greater advantage to the United States than if they went up the rivers St. Lawrence or Mississippi, and paid no duty? |
40499 | And, after he had employed an agent to make a contract, with full discretion, and he had in pursuance of his authority made it, was it not binding? |
40499 | And, if we have, are we not to make use of it in judging of the expediency or inexpediency of the Treaty? |
40499 | And, secondly, Were there 60,000 inhabitants in the Territory? |
40499 | And, secondly, will such a construction warrant the establishment of the Bank? |
40499 | Are Republicans irresponsible? |
40499 | Are crimes more frequent in that country than in the other States? |
40499 | Are crimes more frequently committed there? |
40499 | Are despots alone to be reproached for unfeeling indifference to the tears and blood of their subjects? |
40499 | Are gentlemen afraid to leave them to their own unbiased judgment? |
40499 | Are gentlemen apprehensive we shall be led by this officer to adopt plans we should otherwise reject? |
40499 | Are not the annual revenues sufficient? |
40499 | Are not their capitals for trade larger than ours? |
40499 | Are our debts ascertained? |
40499 | Are taxes to be paid exclusively by the rich? |
40499 | Are the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate Congress? |
40499 | Are the eastern members to dictate in this business, and fix the seat of Government of the United States? |
40499 | Are the posts to remain for ever in the possession of Great Britain? |
40499 | Are the services of the Senate of more importance than those of the Representatives? |
40499 | Are the truths in it applicable to the great object we are about to decide? |
40499 | Are the very clods where we tread entitled to this ardent preference because they are greener? |
40499 | Are there more executions? |
40499 | Are these the men, asked Mr. C., who ought to have all this mass of Congressional odium cast upon them? |
40499 | Are they amenable to the people for their conduct? |
40499 | Are they not a polished people, sensible of the rights of mankind, and actuated by proper sentiments of humanity? |
40499 | Are they not continuing to do so, and is it not in contemplation to sell large quantities of lands in that country, that have never been purchased? |
40499 | Are they the men to swallow their resentments, who so lately were choking with them? |
40499 | Are they the only people whose feelings are to be consulted on this occasion? |
40499 | Are they the only persons who possess religion and morality? |
40499 | Are they to look into another bill for that purpose? |
40499 | Are they, for the stealing of a horse, or some such thing, to cross the line in armed bodies, and act just as they please? |
40499 | Are we afraid that the President and Senate are not sufficiently informed to know their respective duties? |
40499 | Are we never to stand upon a certain and solid foundation? |
40499 | Are we not now sitting, in our sober discretion, a General Government, without the semblance of restraint? |
40499 | Are we not so deeply in debt as to give us reason to believe that it will require many years to emancipate ourselves? |
40499 | Are we not the sole judges; have we not a right to determine for ourselves? |
40499 | Are we sure that it will come back into our possession again? |
40499 | Are we to apply to foreign banks or individuals? |
40499 | Are we to apply to the banks already established in the States for loans? |
40499 | Are we to depend, then, on taxes for commanding money in cases of urgent necessity? |
40499 | Are we to say, we will not be bound by your transfer, we will not treat with your representative, but insist upon a resettlement with you alone? |
40499 | Are we to send a special committee to inform them? |
40499 | Are we to take the circuitous route of impeachment? |
40499 | Are you prepared to do so just now? |
40499 | Are you ready to answer? |
40499 | Are you ready to speak in your defence? |
40499 | As to the flag, how can it require an answer from the Senate? |
40499 | As to the third point, should not his estate be indemnified? |
40499 | BOUDINOT.--The question seems to turn merely on this point, whether the Vice President shall receive a per diem allowance, or an annual salary? |
40499 | Be it so-- what follows? |
40499 | Besides, where will this business of censorship end? |
40499 | But I ask gentlemen, whether Great Britain ever laid such a high duty in the first instance, as we are about to impose? |
40499 | But I would ask if there is any power under heaven which could not be exercised within the extensive limits of this preamble? |
40499 | But a distrust of the States is shown in every movement of Congress-- will not this implant distrust also in the States? |
40499 | But admitting that they would not fight, to what would the argument lead? |
40499 | But am I reduced to the necessity of proving this point? |
40499 | But are not gentlemen who come from the most distant parts of the Union, compelled to relinquish every thing to attend here? |
40499 | But are, he asked, gentlemen serious in these observations? |
40499 | But can public necessity be urged in the present case to justify this kind of political robbery? |
40499 | But did all this put an end to the war? |
40499 | But did they want to bring forward an impeachment? |
40499 | But do gentlemen consider the consequences of throwing all internal defence and distant expeditions upon the militia? |
40499 | But from which of these measures is danger to be apprehended? |
40499 | But gentlemen say,"Have we not as much power as the House of Commons in Great Britain?" |
40499 | But he asked, if such would not be a vain attempt? |
40499 | But he would ask those gentlemen, by whom the Government was to be dissolved? |
40499 | But how do gentlemen handle this question? |
40499 | But how does Congress get this power? |
40499 | But how does it interpose and compel? |
40499 | But how is it they are more concerned in this business than others? |
40499 | But how will you prevent them? |
40499 | But if it be partial or oppressive, are there not many instances in which we have laid taxes of this nature? |
40499 | But if it was politic to lay an impost on cordage, would it not be the same with regard to hemp? |
40499 | But if this were doubtful, where should they look for information? |
40499 | But if you have two hands, both in the fire at once, will you pull out one before the other? |
40499 | But is Congress going to legislate by strength of arm? |
40499 | But is not the Secretary of the Treasury subject to blame? |
40499 | But is there occasion for amendments to the Treaty- making power? |
40499 | But is this the case of the domestic creditor of the United States? |
40499 | But it is asked, if this Treaty be so unfavorable to commerce, why are the merchants so much in favor of it? |
40499 | But it may be demanded, how are the frontiers to be protected, if the army was disbanded? |
40499 | But it might be objected that a power so enormous, and comprehending such essential interests, might be abused, and thence asked, where is the remedy? |
40499 | But let me ask, will not this as effectually destroy some parts, as if the correction had been made by way of incorporation? |
40499 | But on what are a committee to confer? |
40499 | But suppose they decline doing what you require, what is next to be done? |
40499 | But supposing it to be done away, how do the constitutions of the different States stand on this head? |
40499 | But the question is, what is that will, as expressed in the constitution? |
40499 | But was South Carolina, at the commencement of the war, with all her slaves, backward in her resistance to Great Britain? |
40499 | But was there no justice also due to the people of the United States? |
40499 | But was this done by striking out and inserting other words in the great charter? |
40499 | But were there no other ways of cancelling a Treaty? |
40499 | But what are their immediate representatives to do, in case the bill be made perpetual? |
40499 | But what did he do? |
40499 | But what did the gentlemen who have delivered their sentiments say? |
40499 | But what does this signify? |
40499 | But what effect do these men suppose will arise from their exertions? |
40499 | But what funds are to defray the increased expense of maintaining such a force as is now contemplated? |
40499 | But what has been the practice? |
40499 | But what has been the result of the system which has been pursued ever since? |
40499 | But what has the House to do with this; or why should it become the censor and promulgator of the speeches of its own members? |
40499 | But what have been the fruits of it? |
40499 | But what have the citizens of the other States to do with our slaves? |
40499 | But what is a law? |
40499 | But what is the necessity of having a numerous representation? |
40499 | But what is the object of the motion? |
40499 | But what is the objection? |
40499 | But what is this general welfare? |
40499 | But what is this liberty which some appear to be so fond of? |
40499 | But what is to prevent the greatest imposition in this business? |
40499 | But what more can we do than pass a law for the purpose? |
40499 | But what occasion is there for adopting such a resolution? |
40499 | But what was the case? |
40499 | But what would become of the acts of Congress? |
40499 | But what, in this state of things, would restrain their piratical cruisers in the West Indies? |
40499 | But where is the necessity of raising the impost to this degree? |
40499 | But where was the government that had funded its debts under the circumstances of the American debt? |
40499 | But who started this question? |
40499 | But why did the creditors part with their acknowledgment of the debt? |
40499 | But why do these men set themselves up in such a particular manner against slavery? |
40499 | But why is this degree of caution necessary? |
40499 | But why is this desirable? |
40499 | But why should we lose time to examine the theory when it is in our power to resort to experience? |
40499 | But why will gentlemen contend for incorporating amendments into the constitution? |
40499 | But why, Mr. Chairman, should we hasten on this business of funding? |
40499 | But would gentlemen infer from hence, that no alteration ought to take place if the manufactures were well established? |
40499 | But, asked he, are precedents in war to justify violations of private and State rights in a time of peace? |
40499 | But, if the sum voted was too small, what would be the consequence? |
40499 | But, in taking the principle of territory, are the House to calculate on the uninhabited wilderness? |
40499 | But, instead of this, what is proposed? |
40499 | But, let me ask, if the Treaty should not be carried into effect, will that relieve that deserving class of our citizens? |
40499 | But, said Mr. W., let us waive this subject, and inquire if negotiation had failed, whether war would not have been the consequence? |
40499 | But, say those who hide the absurdity under the cover of ambiguous phrases, have we no discretion? |
40499 | But, sir, is the whole morality of the United States confined to the Quakers? |
40499 | But, sir, what is the situation of the people who hold these bills? |
40499 | By applying proper rules of interpretation? |
40499 | By emissions of bills of credit? |
40499 | By loans at home? |
40499 | By taxes? |
40499 | By what magic can it be made to appear it will be more proper at the end of ten years? |
40499 | By what provision of the constitution is the Treaty- making power, agreeably to the construction of the gentlemen, limited? |
40499 | By whom, then, he would ask again, was the Government to be dissolved? |
40499 | Can a market be obtained without the merchant? |
40499 | Can any body of men to be raised in this country tread down the substantial yeomanry? |
40499 | Can any of the Secretary''s plans be called bills? |
40499 | Can any person, who has read our constitution, believe that it is in our power to pass a law without limitation? |
40499 | Can any reason be assigned for making this distinction? |
40499 | Can any solid argument against the resolution on the table arise from a conduct of this kind? |
40499 | Can any thing show more friendly to the Union than adopting the constitution, and sending us here to administer it? |
40499 | Can any thing tend more to make men think themselves mean, or degrade to a lower point their estimation of virtue and their standard of action? |
40499 | Can gentlemen state more serious apprehensions in the former than the latter case? |
40499 | Can it be supposed it would be necessary, said he, to give any member of this House double pay to accept of the office? |
40499 | Can it be supposed that a part will be more desirous of promoting the good of the whole than the whole will of the part? |
40499 | Can it be supposed that such a character as this is influenced by such a motive? |
40499 | Can it be supposed that the name of Senators will render those members superior to their fellow- citizens? |
40499 | Can not his friends introduce it as their own, by making and seconding a motion for that purpose? |
40499 | Can the House listen seriously to such a proposition? |
40499 | Can the advocates of the amendment even affect apprehensions that there is any intention to introduce a foreign nobility as a privileged order? |
40499 | Can the human mind retain, with any great degree of decision, objects so extensive and multifarious upon a mere oral communication? |
40499 | Can there be any foundation for alarm, when Congress expressly declare, that they have no power of interference prior to the year 1808? |
40499 | Can they expect the planters to come in a body, and take off their goods upon their arrival? |
40499 | Can things certain be balanced by things uncertain? |
40499 | Can this Government, said he, protect its officers from the resentment of any one State in the Union? |
40499 | Can this be the inference of common sense? |
40499 | Can this possibly be a true construction of the Treaty- making power? |
40499 | Can this, then, he would ask, be a bill proper to perpetuate, or fit for the restoration of the credit of the United States? |
40499 | Can two parties exist in a well organized Government to dispute about property, and have no judge? |
40499 | Can we desire any thing more ardently than a termination of the Indian war? |
40499 | Can we find that she ever imposed a duty of six cents per gallon on molasses? |
40499 | Can we retribute the sufferings which have been caused by the depreciation of our currency? |
40499 | Can you then recover the money back again? |
40499 | Certainly gentlemen would not pretend to bestow a privilege upon a man which he is incapable of using? |
40499 | Congress having no money to give them, offered something; what? |
40499 | Constituents made no scruple to tell Representatives of their faults, and he saw no reason why Representatives might not tell constituents of theirs? |
40499 | Could any man tell? |
40499 | Could any possible wrong be done to those who hold the domestic debt, by estimating it at its current value? |
40499 | Could he look with affection and veneration to such a country as his parent? |
40499 | Could it be pretended there was a shadow of authority given to the House of Representatives? |
40499 | Could the House, in this case, exercise its discretion, whether or no a Convention should be called? |
40499 | Could this be the fair construction of our so much boasted constitution? |
40499 | Could we say, in such a case, that the tax had been uniform? |
40499 | Did France before this war give us free trade to her colonies? |
40499 | Did Holland, before the present war, open to us all her rich possessions in the East Indies? |
40499 | Did any gentleman think there was sufficient evil in the late Treaty with Great Britain to authorize them in refusing to carry it into effect? |
40499 | Did any member wish at this period to attempt this inquiry? |
40499 | Did gentlemen wish to re- establish a temporary Territorial Government there? |
40499 | Did he imagine that, as it is, they are not kept in a perpetual state of alarm, of exertion, and of danger? |
40499 | Did it authorize a perpetual tax, irrepealable by the whole Legislature, without a breach of faith, according to received doctrine? |
40499 | Did it authorize a plan for supplying former deficiencies, which it is admitted do not exist? |
40499 | Did it authorize an entire provision for the public debt, past, present, and to come? |
40499 | Did it bear a proportion to his services, or was it in proportion to what the members of the Senate and this House were to be allowed? |
40499 | Did it condemn the doctrine of the majority? |
40499 | Did it encourage the hopes of those who wished the establishment of Government upon the principle of equal rights? |
40499 | Did it lead to a discovery of truth? |
40499 | Did it not rivet the chains upon the people of England? |
40499 | Did it render the people of Ireland more respectable in the eyes of the people of the United States? |
40499 | Did not New York dispose of lands within her chartered limits, and from the sales become wealthy, as she has large sums in the funds? |
40499 | Did not duty require a provision for the defence and safety of the United States by_ internal_ resources? |
40499 | Did not this mean something more than the bare discharge of their expenses? |
40499 | Did the General enter into these engagements out of personal regard to individuals, without a view to the public interest? |
40499 | Did the House imagine that their censure, like the wand of a magician, would lay a spell on these people? |
40499 | Did the Secretary apply the money borrowed in Europe agreeably to the legal appropriations and the instructions of the PRESIDENT? |
40499 | Did the Secretary of the Treasury apply the money to other uses than the law directed? |
40499 | Did the soldier accept of this offer? |
40499 | Did these acts originate with the Executive? |
40499 | Did they consider this House as the only branch from which any danger was to be apprehended? |
40499 | Did they contribute to strengthen the country against invasion by staying at home and joining the invader as soon as he was successful? |
40499 | Did they mean to rob the Almighty of what they call his prerogative? |
40499 | Did they mean, that the first event which would put an end to their own authority should be the last act of Government? |
40499 | Did they not refuse to correspond with any society that aided, or in any manner abetted, the insurrection? |
40499 | Did they not, in the most pointed manner, discountenance any such proceeding? |
40499 | Did they suspect the Legislature of doing wrong? |
40499 | Did they turn themselves to industry and useful pursuits? |
40499 | Did they, by their arms or contributions, establish our independence? |
40499 | Did this act of submission render them more respectable in the eyes of the people of England? |
40499 | Did this passage show that the PRESIDENT wanted them to intermeddle? |
40499 | Did we go to the Emperor of Morocco, or to the Dey of Algiers, and challenge a passage for our ships up the Mediterranean? |
40499 | Did we intend to rival the military establishments in Europe? |
40499 | Did we judiciously examine whether the spirit of the law accords with the habits and manners of the people? |
40499 | Do gentlemen conceive that on any occasion instructions would be so general as to proceed from all our constituents? |
40499 | Do gentlemen contemplate to what issue these principles would lead? |
40499 | Do gentlemen foresee the extent of these words? |
40499 | Do gentlemen imagine that State will join the Union? |
40499 | Do gentlemen mean that he shall give it piecemeal, by way of question and answer? |
40499 | Do gentlemen suppose our laws, like those of the Medes and Persians, unchangeable? |
40499 | Do gentlemen, said he, consider the importance of the power they give the officer by the clause? |
40499 | Do the United States avenge these murders? |
40499 | Do these gentlemen require any thing more respecting the powers of Congress, than a description of the ends of government? |
40499 | Do these men expect a general emancipation of slaves by law? |
40499 | Do they believe the capitals of those banks adequate to the exigencies of the nation? |
40499 | Do they demand back the property carried off? |
40499 | Do they leave their State and relinquish their occupations? |
40499 | Do they mean to purchase their freedom? |
40499 | Do they not admit that He is the source of all good, and can they refuse to acknowledge it? |
40499 | Do they not observe that the fate of the Government is deeply involved in the decision? |
40499 | Do they understand the rights of mankind, and the disposition of Providence, better than others? |
40499 | Do we charge bribery or corruption? |
40499 | Do we ever originate any money bill? |
40499 | Do we impeach the Executive? |
40499 | Do you know one Robert Randall? |
40499 | Do you mean to pay the principal and interest now due? |
40499 | Do you think we should pay the tax? |
40499 | Does Portugal open the Brazils? |
40499 | Does Spain open her rich islands in the East and West Indies, and her immense possessions in South America? |
40499 | Does any gentleman expect, while we have a public debt, to prevent speculation in our funds? |
40499 | Does any gentleman imagine that an officer is entitled to his office as to an estate? |
40499 | Does experience sanction such an opinion? |
40499 | Does he infer that the people can, in detached bodies, contravene an act established by the whole people? |
40499 | Does he mean that it shall lie dormant and never be exercised? |
40499 | Does it consist in the exaltation of one man, and the humiliation of the rest? |
40499 | Does it contain any thing which is not true? |
40499 | Does not that new order prohibit, as much as ever, American vessels from carrying provisions to the West India Islands? |
40499 | Does not the British Government wish to deprive us of this branch also? |
40499 | Does she not receive every thing which she could have demanded in relation to that Treaty? |
40499 | Does she, in the Treaty lately made, open even Florida, as Great Britain has Canada? |
40499 | Does the House believe this? |
40499 | Does the dignity of a nation consist in the distance between the first magistrate and his citizens? |
40499 | Does the gentleman conceive that such only are delegated as are expressed? |
40499 | Does the lawyer neglect his client? |
40499 | Does the merchant forego his commerce, or the farmer his agriculture? |
40499 | Does this look like a democracy, when one of the first acts of the two branches of the Legislature is to confer titles? |
40499 | Does this mean a part of the people in a township or district, or does it mean the representatives in the State Legislatures? |
40499 | First, what article shall be the subject of a particular tax, and what shall remain in the common mass liable to an impost_ ad valorem_? |
40499 | For what is the tendency of this counterfeit alarm? |
40499 | For what purpose, then, shall it be committed? |
40499 | For what reason have we made a difference between the President and Vice President? |
40499 | For what rights of a citizen will be deemed inviolable when a State renounces the principles that constitute their security? |
40499 | From whence, he asked, do we acquire the authority to exercise this power? |
40499 | Gentlemen had said, Shall this House not have as much power respecting Treaties as the House of Commons in Great Britain? |
40499 | Gentlemen on the other side had spoken of their feelings; did they suppose, he asked, that those who were in the majority had not feelings? |
40499 | Gentlemen say it will work injustice; but are we not as much bound to repair the injustice done by the United States? |
40499 | Gentlemen say the Secretary of the Treasury is responsible for the information he gives the House-- in what manner does this responsibility act? |
40499 | Gentlemen say-- why provide the money if it be not wanted? |
40499 | Gentlemen talked about impeachment? |
40499 | Government, in the most solemn manner, pledged itself to make compensation to the soldiers, have they done it? |
40499 | Grant it; but can they say that we shall never have a war with any European power? |
40499 | Great Britain obtained no soldiers from her East and West India settlements, were they therefore useless? |
40499 | Had experience proved that the negroes would not make good soldiers? |
40499 | Had it a concurrent right with the States? |
40499 | Had not our neutrality been the occasion of our wealth and prosperity? |
40499 | Had not the managers of our Government kept a watchful eye on our affairs? |
40499 | Had she a claim under the Treaty of 1783, which is forgotten? |
40499 | Had the Executive avowed the plan of the Secretary of War, or his reasoning? |
40499 | Had the public mind been less disturbed on the late Treaty than in 1793? |
40499 | Had they a right to assist in the formation of Treaties in such a manner as that a Treaty would be incomplete without their sanction officially given? |
40499 | Had they done so? |
40499 | Had they not a claim on the House to adopt such means as would enable the citizens in every State to judge of the propriety of public measures? |
40499 | Had this done any good to the cause? |
40499 | Has not the Legislature done so before? |
40499 | Has that been altered since by the incorporation of amendments? |
40499 | Has the constitution made this House a diplomatic body, invested with the powers of negotiation? |
40499 | Have any nations in the present European war, premised their operations by a declaration? |
40499 | Have not express charges, as well as vague rumors, been brought against him at the bar of the public? |
40499 | Have not the public a right to know the sentiments of the House on every question? |
40499 | Have the newspapers reprobated it? |
40499 | Have the principles on which you ground the reproach upon Cabinets and Kings no practical influence-- no binding force? |
40499 | Have there not bills originated in this House which have caused the expenditure of much money to very little purpose? |
40499 | Have these people here( the Democratic societies) any such opportunity? |
40499 | Have they any right to interfere with our internal policy? |
40499 | Have they not pushed conquests into the Indian country north- west of the Ohio? |
40499 | Have they precedent for this assertion? |
40499 | Have we heard any complaints against it? |
40499 | Have we not laid extra duties on various articles, expressly for the purpose of encouraging various branches of our own manufactures? |
40499 | Have we not, said he, been one of the happiest nations upon earth? |
40499 | Have we received a power to exercise in wantonly oppressing those who gave it? |
40499 | Have we, in truth, originated this money bill? |
40499 | Have you any proof to cite that you are not guilty? |
40499 | Have you got any new associates in this city? |
40499 | Having stated these preliminaries, Mr. B. proceeded to inquire what were the powers attempted to be exercised by this bill? |
40499 | Having this advantage, can it be doubted that we have not industry and enterprise to improve it? |
40499 | He adverted to the idea of direct taxation, and inquired, on what principle will gentlemen consent to this mode of raising the necessary supplies? |
40499 | He appealed to the feelings of every honorable man in the committee, whether demands for justice and reparation for injuries were enforced by threats? |
40499 | He asked if any of the States had ever established various rates for their lands? |
40499 | He asked if the Creeks performed a single tittle of the treaty of New York, about which there had been so much parade? |
40499 | He asked if, before the purchase, the certificates were debts due from the United States? |
40499 | He asked if, in the present situation of the country, all dependence was to be placed on commerce? |
40499 | He asked what better time there was than the present for settling the amount of these claims? |
40499 | He asked what would this countervail be? |
40499 | He asked whether this Government was intended for a temporary or a lasting one? |
40499 | He asked whether words could be devised that would place the new Government more precisely in the same relation to the real creditors with the old? |
40499 | He asked, if, in such a case, it was competent to the House rightfully to withhold the means necessary for the performance of the public engagement? |
40499 | He asked, upon parallel principles, what might Congress not do? |
40499 | He asked, what was the authority of the United States? |
40499 | He asked, who would lend us money, if there was such a difficulty in establishing funds to pay the interest of it? |
40499 | He had asked, why, since the PRESIDENT had proclaimed a Treaty as the law of the land, which was not the law of the land, why he was not impeached? |
40499 | He had said, how could they determine whether the Treaty was constitutional or not, or whether an impeachment was necessary, without information? |
40499 | He inquired how the gentleman proposed to get information? |
40499 | He inquired of him whether the House itself went into an investigation of facts in the first instance? |
40499 | He inquired whether the House were to sanction and authorize the reports of the proposed stenographer? |
40499 | He noticed the objection from banks banishing the specie; he said the surplus only would be sent out of the country; but is it given away? |
40499 | He only wanted to ask whether the call for yeas and nays was withdrawn or not? |
40499 | He proceeded to inquire whether this clause gives them the right to make Treaties the supreme law of the land? |
40499 | He said, gentlemen asked who would be offended or hurt by this plan? |
40499 | He then inquired what better time there could be for learning the number and extent of the losses than the present? |
40499 | He then inquired whether, under the existing state of things, the Treaty ought to be rejected? |
40499 | He then inquired, of what right does this incorporation deprive a single citizen? |
40499 | He thought it advisable to guard against abuses; but has this abuse not already taken place? |
40499 | He was next interrogated by the SPEAKER, as follows: Are you guilty, or not guilty? |
40499 | He was then asked, whether the call of yesterday was valid to- day, or if it was necessary for the members to rise over again? |
40499 | He would inquire how they became so? |
40499 | He would inquire what Treaties could be entered into by the PRESIDENT and Senate, without infringing upon the powers placed in Congress? |
40499 | His first inquiry, he said, should be, whether negroes were to be considered as property? |
40499 | How are the judges to determine in the case; are they to be guided in their decisions by the rules of expediency? |
40499 | How are those sentiments reconcilable to the oath we have taken? |
40499 | How are we to form one? |
40499 | How can gentlemen answer for this, who call themselves representatives, on the broad basis of national interest? |
40499 | How can it be such an_ ex post facto_ law as is prescribed by the constitution, when that expression is conjunctive with a bill of attainder? |
40499 | How can the business originate in this House, if we have it reported to us by the Minister of Finance? |
40499 | How can they reconcile their conduct? |
40499 | How can we help it? |
40499 | How could certain members reconcile this proceeding with their former votes and language? |
40499 | How could it then bear a comparison with that House, who were chosen by the whole people every two years? |
40499 | How could they annul a State law, when the State would be able to plead a precedent on the part of Congress? |
40499 | How could they be called freemen, if they were, against their consent, to be expelled from the country? |
40499 | How could they delegate a power to others which they did not possess themselves? |
40499 | How did that appear? |
40499 | How is this to be done? |
40499 | How long could an enlightened people remain in such a state of insensibility and torpor? |
40499 | How many of them are springing up in the Northern States? |
40499 | How many ways of proceeding lie open before us? |
40499 | How retaliate? |
40499 | How then can gentlemen assert that the powers of appointment and removal are incident to the Executive Department of Government? |
40499 | How then do you propose to restrain the Secretary of the Treasury? |
40499 | How then was he to find evidence of his behavior during such a length of time? |
40499 | How was that money applied, and what will now be necessary? |
40499 | How was this done? |
40499 | How was this to settle the principle of excise? |
40499 | How were they to regulate commerce? |
40499 | How were we to act? |
40499 | How will he please both? |
40499 | How will they know the laws, if we do not understand the constitution after it has been in operation for nearly eight years? |
40499 | How will this doctrine operate upon the power of appropriation? |
40499 | How would he embarrass his family and property in such engagements? |
40499 | How, then, can gentlemen from those States contend that the proposed duty is so much too high as to occasion the fatal consequences they foretell? |
40499 | How, then, can gentlemen reconcile their conduct of this day to the liberality they have hitherto shown? |
40499 | How, then, can gentlemen suppose the revenue ought to be perpetual, in order to be commensurate with the object? |
40499 | How, then, is it possible they can continue their trade, when you lop off another part of their capital? |
40499 | I am sensible this Treaty presents itself with an unfavorable aspect, and what is the reason? |
40499 | I ask again, Mr. Chairman, if the people of this country possess less power than the people of that despotic Government? |
40499 | I ask gentlemen, can there be a greater evil than this in any Government? |
40499 | I ask, further, when such attempts have been made, have they not failed of success? |
40499 | I asked those, as I might ask my colleague now, who of our constituents could calculate what he would save by any proposed reduction of our pay? |
40499 | I asked, is not the assignment of certificates confirmed by the motion? |
40499 | I asked, of what is the assignee deprived but of his late sanguine expectations? |
40499 | I asked, where is the injustice of the State''s complying with its engagements made to the first holders of certificates as far as the case admits? |
40499 | I asked, whether the proposition before us does not rather establish confidence in Government than the contrary? |
40499 | I can not, for my part, conceive how any person can be said to acquire a property in another; is it by virtue of conquest? |
40499 | I fear war as much as any man, when a pretext is given; but can it be seriously said a rejection of this Treaty is a cause of war? |
40499 | I resort especially to the convictions of the Western gentlemen, whether, supposing no posts and no Treaty, the settlers will remain in security? |
40499 | I say, would not such reflections, with ruin before our eyes, produce a degree of irritation in the most calm amongst us? |
40499 | I trust it is neither too presumptuous, nor too late to ask, can you put the dearest interest of society at risk without guilt, and without remorse? |
40499 | I will ask the gentleman by what precise authority he borrowed the money in Amsterdam and Antwerp, and paid it in Paris? |
40499 | I will ask, are they more? |
40499 | I will ask, though, is this country ever to be in a settled and quiet state? |
40499 | I will ask, was it ever known in a Treaty, that a stipulation was made to give up property plundered after the peace? |
40499 | I wish, therefore, to be ascertained of one fact, do the army wish a measure of this kind to take place? |
40499 | I wonder where they are going so cheerfully?" |
40499 | I would ask what state we were in then? |
40499 | I would ask, if the other members of the Union are not also to be consulted? |
40499 | I would beg to ask those, then, who are desirous of freeing the negroes, if they have funds sufficient to pay for them? |
40499 | If I receive a favor, what but the sentiment of gratitude ought to direct me in my acknowledgments? |
40499 | If a cargo of nails were to be sent to Carolina, I would be glad to know how we are to purchase it? |
40499 | If a law is the expression of the will, must not an appropriation law be equally so? |
40499 | If a permanent seat is established, why not go to it immediately? |
40499 | If a war should suddenly break out, how is Congress to provide for it? |
40499 | If a wish of Congress can bring them into the Union, why should we decline to express such a wish? |
40499 | If any article is warranted on this account, how much more are we authorized to proceed on this occasion? |
40499 | If authority beyond this is assumed, however trifling the encroachment at first, where will it stop? |
40499 | If by the ill- timed promulgation of this report, we have laid the foundation for the calamity, ought we not to counteract it? |
40499 | If every member is to be bound by instructions how to vote, what are gentlemen from the extremities of the continent to do? |
40499 | If future difficulties should involve that nation still further, what must be the consequence? |
40499 | If he can not be removed, I should suppose he can not be suspended; and what security have the people against the machinations of a bad man in office? |
40499 | If his father had lived a few years longer, would there have arisen any question on this subject? |
40499 | If it be true, then, can the PRESIDENT repeal, as he has by the Treaty, the laws of Congress, although by the constitution he can not negative them? |
40499 | If it is inquired where we are to draw the line of a liberal construction, I will also inquire where the line of restriction is to be drawn? |
40499 | If it is, is the conclusion not obvious, that Congress have power to pass laws for carrying these powers into effect? |
40499 | If merchants can not get insurance, will they send their vessels out? |
40499 | If not, then, 2dly, Whether both, or either, and which of them, ought to be ratified? |
40499 | If our Senate should take any unwarrantable stride towards aristocracy, have we not the power to check them? |
40499 | If sequestration is hostility, as he had heard it called, what, he asked, is condemnation? |
40499 | If so, to what an extent must they go? |
40499 | If so, what was that expense, or what will be the probable increase? |
40499 | If so, will there be any economy in this mode of procedure? |
40499 | If suspicion had so long existed against the integrity of the Secretary, why was not information called for at the beginning of the session? |
40499 | If that was done, the Government would be removed to the Potomac; if not, we should stop short of it; and what would be the consequence? |
40499 | If the House undertake to censure particular classes of men, who can tell where they will stop? |
40499 | If the Indians are to be kept in peace by bribes, why not, in this, as in other similar cases, by presents and pecuniary rewards? |
40499 | If the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate have a right to make a law, do Congress make all laws? |
40499 | If the Potomac is struck out, are you sure of getting Baltimore? |
40499 | If the Secretary has paid what was due, what then is the complaint? |
40499 | If the Treaty had been the most complete and satisfactory, would it not be necessary to leave something to enforce its execution? |
40499 | If the controlling influence of this House was added, would the power be less? |
40499 | If the country had been plunged into a war, would it be as flourishing as it is? |
40499 | If the member from Virginia( Mr. GILES) had been opposed to the Treaty going into operation, why did he not take the proper mode to prevent it? |
40499 | If the next Legislature were disposed to violate the public honor, would the law now under consideration stand in their way? |
40499 | If the officer misbehaves, he can be removed by impeachment; but in this case is impeachment the only mode of removal? |
40499 | If the power flows from the nature and necessity of the case, it may be demanded, is the renot equal authority for the Bank? |
40499 | If the thing is in itself right, why refuse to vote directly for it? |
40499 | If then the fishermen ask you to restore only their own money, will you deny them? |
40499 | If these facts are established by the committee, would it give equal satisfaction as if they were established by the House? |
40499 | If these were really their sentiments, why did they not abide by them? |
40499 | If they are, will they take them by force? |
40499 | If they come here with badges at their button- holes, can you forbid them? |
40499 | If they do, what is the injury arising from the adoption of the resolution intended to be submitted to the committee? |
40499 | If they had such an abhorrence for slavery, why, said Mr. S., did they not cast us off and reject our alliance? |
40499 | If they intermeddle in the business of sailors, why not in that of manufacturers and farmers? |
40499 | If they will not be content with that, shall it be committed to investigate facts? |
40499 | If this argument was founded in fact, it would put an end to all debates on all the new taxes; but what was this notable discovery? |
40499 | If this doctrine prevails, to what a situation would the Representatives of a free people be reduced? |
40499 | If this is the case, does it not imply a censure by the House on certain characters? |
40499 | If this is the case, is there any person of humanity that would not wish to prevent them? |
40499 | If this is the case, will a revenue law for one or two years bring that relief which is expected? |
40499 | If this is to be adduced as a proof of the popularity of a measure, what are we to say with respect to a tax on tea? |
40499 | If this right was denied them, where would the principle stop? |
40499 | If this system should prevail, were we to receive British productions through other countries? |
40499 | If to continue in session be an evil, why are we here? |
40499 | If we are parties, what would be the decision before a court of justice? |
40499 | If we do not mean to deceive, why not make the provision commensurate to the occasion? |
40499 | If we pay this attention to them, in one instance, what good reason is there for contemning them in another? |
40499 | If we refuse to say that the act itself is a crime, how can we condemn Randall as criminal? |
40499 | If we relinquish this branch of the cod fishery, what is left us? |
40499 | If we should go as far South as Baltimore, why not an equal distance south- west to the Potomac? |
40499 | If what he said was not sufficient to disprove it, he asked where is the evidence to support it? |
40499 | If you do not mean to indemnify, why inquire at all? |
40499 | If, then, they chose to yield one species of property, might they not another? |
40499 | If, therefore, some interpretation of the constitution must be indulged, by what rules is it to be governed? |
40499 | If, therefore, we are forewarned, ought we not to be forearmed? |
40499 | In addition to the loss of this Government, would not every member of the Legislature, he asked, lose his character, credit, and reputation? |
40499 | In case of an army establishment, for example, suppose the PRESIDENT or Senate were to refuse their assent to the repeal of a law establishing it? |
40499 | In cases of a more serious kind, is not sentiment the only prompt and enlightened guide of our conduct? |
40499 | In discussing the question, he inquired, What has Congress already done? |
40499 | In favor of the militia, it may be asked, who fought the battle of Bunker''s Hill? |
40499 | In many cases the Executives are not in particular vested with the power of appointment; and do they exercise that power by virtue of their office? |
40499 | In short, was not this a kind of argument infinitely more tending to the production of prejudice than to the discovery of truth? |
40499 | In spite of this mock solemnity, I demand, if the House will not concur in the measure to execute the Treaty, what other course shall we take? |
40499 | In such case, may not titles do an injury to the Union? |
40499 | In this case a question arises: What is, upon the whole, most just and expedient? |
40499 | In what does the case differ between the depreciated paper and the certificates? |
40499 | In what manner had this trust been carried into execution? |
40499 | In what mode are the memorialists to be informed of our humane dispositions? |
40499 | Instead of Baltimore, is it not probable we may have Susquehanna inserted, perhaps the Delaware? |
40499 | Is Congress vested with power to grant privileges contained in the bill? |
40499 | Is he absolutely bound to perform what he is instructed to do? |
40499 | Is his maxim supported by precedent drawn from the practice of the individual States? |
40499 | Is it a narrow affection for the spot where a man was born? |
40499 | Is it among the archives? |
40499 | Is it because the feelings of the Friends will be hurt to have their affair conducted in the usual course of business? |
40499 | Is it contended to be out of order? |
40499 | Is it expected that a Senator shall eat more, or drink more costly liquors, than a member of the House of Representatives? |
40499 | Is it expected, said Mr. N., that I am to abandon my independence for the sake of the PRESIDENT? |
40499 | Is it for the_ undaunted_ and_ energetic_ countenance of the cause of France, in her struggle for freeing herself from despotic shackles? |
40499 | Is it from such a nation( he asked) that we are to hope for justice? |
40499 | Is it limited by any law past? |
40499 | Is it limited by the provisions with respect to appropriations? |
40499 | Is it necessary to add, that a powerful body of seamen, at some future day, may save us from the vast expense and danger of a standing army? |
40499 | Is it necessary, or was it ever thought so, to make it a stipulation by Treaty? |
40499 | Is it not an established principle amongst all civilized nations, that plundered property shall be given up? |
40499 | Is it not because we have entertained too exalted ideas of our own national importance? |
40499 | Is it not implied by all of them, that certain oaths, residence, and property, make the requisites to form citizenship? |
40499 | Is it not on account of his superior station and his dignity? |
40499 | Is it not our business to inquire into the cause of this strange conduct? |
40499 | Is it not part of our legislative authority? |
40499 | Is it not sufficient that their time and talents are given to the public? |
40499 | Is it not the duty of the House to check this spirit of devastation? |
40499 | Is it our present President? |
40499 | Is it polite, is it generous, to force him to renounce it? |
40499 | Is it politic and wise, then, Mr. Chairman, to exert the power contended for, even if it be authorized by the constitution? |
40499 | Is it possible that any man can be hardy enough to avow them, and their ridiculous consequences? |
40499 | Is it possible that these societies can exist, for any length of time, when they are of no real use to the country? |
40499 | Is it possible to transport the revenue from one end of the continent to the other? |
40499 | Is it pretended that the services and supplies were an inadequate compensation? |
40499 | Is it reasonable to expect that men should sacrifice domestic ease and the interests of their families to serve their country? |
40499 | Is it supposed that all this matter can go off without any noise or combustion? |
40499 | Is it the_ manly_ demand of restitution made of Great Britain for her accumulated injuries that called forth the praise? |
40499 | Is it to rouse again the sleeping apparitions which have disturbed the back country? |
40499 | Is it to show that the mock dangers which they have pretended to dread are real? |
40499 | Is it to them we owe our present happiness? |
40499 | Is it true, that an unwillingness to pay debts hath been the principal cause of opposition to this Treaty? |
40499 | Is it within the powers of this Congress to grant bounties? |
40499 | Is it worthy the attention of Government that the cod fishery should be preserved? |
40499 | Is it written? |
40499 | Is not our public credit totally gone? |
40499 | Is not the assignment of the certificates confirmed by the nation? |
40499 | Is not the present a most favorable opportunity for holding up these people to popular resentment? |
40499 | Is not this House excluded? |
40499 | Is not this, as a principle, as novel, as improper, as that which alarms our opponents? |
40499 | Is not, therefore, eight cents disproportioned to the rates fixed, or intended to be imposed on other articles? |
40499 | Is that nation more debased than others? |
40499 | Is the House to be told that, for the sake of harmony, they must give up their own powers and opinions? |
40499 | Is the House to consider the present, or the expected population? |
40499 | Is the Treaty- making power not a power vested by the constitution in the Government of the United States, or in a department or officer thereof? |
40499 | Is the confidence of the people in the services, and patriotism, and wisdom of the Chief Magistrate diminished? |
40499 | Is the power of establishing an incorporated bank among the powers vested by the constitution in the Legislature of the United States? |
40499 | Is the zeal of gentlemen, who oppose this design, influenced by their despair of removing the seat of Government afterwards? |
40499 | Is the_ habeas corpus_ act, or the statute_ De Tallagio non concedendo_ incorporated in_ magna charta_? |
40499 | Is there a common centre? |
40499 | Is there a man who does not believe that, had the treaty not been ratified, we should have had war? |
40499 | Is there a reciprocal stipulation by Great Britain with respect to the articles unexecuted by her? |
40499 | Is there another point of law and justice for the Government? |
40499 | Is there any difference in effect between lodging general powers in a government, and permitting the exercise of them by subtle constructions? |
40499 | Is there any fair construction by which the bill can be deemed an exercise of the power to borrow money? |
40499 | Is there any impropriety in desiring them to consider a question which they have not yet decided? |
40499 | Is there any impropriety in paying this mark of respect to a man to whom all America owes such indelible obligations? |
40499 | Is there any other head proposed to be on the coin but the President''s? |
40499 | Is there any thing improper or unwise in this determination? |
40499 | Is there any thing wrong in this? |
40499 | Is there any time when the civil list will cease its demand? |
40499 | Is there not more responsibility in one man than in large bodies? |
40499 | Is this House to negotiate the Treaty over again? |
40499 | Is this bill to borrow money? |
40499 | Is this exciting mobs? |
40499 | Is this fair? |
40499 | Is this gratitude or insult? |
40499 | Is this language to be used within the United States? |
40499 | Is this pursuing a liberal system of politics? |
40499 | Is this right, is this just, that all our rights should be thus bartered away under a Treaty- making power? |
40499 | Is this so? |
40499 | Is this the peace gentlemen undertake, with such fearless confidence, to maintain? |
40499 | Is this to be the style of an American Congress? |
40499 | Is this, he asked, consonant to the feelings of the House, and shall they not attempt to counteract its effects in the only constitutional manner? |
40499 | It does not call for any thing to be done, then why a reference? |
40499 | It had been asked if the PRESIDENT was responsible for the contents of this Report from the Secretary of War? |
40499 | It had been asked why the call for information had not been sooner made? |
40499 | It had been asked, what control the House were to have over this officer? |
40499 | It has been asked, Is not the Senate as worthy of the confidence of the citizens of the United States as this House? |
40499 | It has, indeed, been said, it will shorten our sessions; but would this be a benefit? |
40499 | It is more than probable she will, and if she should, what remedy have we? |
40499 | It is not for his gratification; for whose, then, are we to do this? |
40499 | It is only to be inquired, then, whether this was a proper subject of retaliation? |
40499 | It is said we have not done much, and what we have done is merely our duty, for which we receive wages? |
40499 | It is the commercial importance of the city of London which makes it the seat of Government; and what is the consequence? |
40499 | It is true, we may live for two dollars a day; but how? |
40499 | It may be a future question, also, whether he is to be dismissed when the galleries are cleared? |
40499 | It was a payment of our_ bona fide_ debts; what could we do? |
40499 | It was acknowledged by every gentleman that the Treaty of 1783 was broken by the United States; and, if so, what could their negotiator do? |
40499 | It was asked if the Treaty power could receive any check? |
40499 | It was asked, by what means is the Government to administer redress? |
40499 | It was asked, what would be the consequence of refusing to carry the Treaty into effect? |
40499 | It was enough to fix the general principles, viz: Whether there shall be a General Land Officer and two subordinates? |
40499 | It was nothing more or less than, would they or would they not now appropriate moneys to carry the British Treaty into effect? |
40499 | It was true, that a proposition for postponement was made, but what was the extent of that postponement? |
40499 | JACKSON.--Do not gentlemen think there is some danger on the other side? |
40499 | Lastly, did it authorize an extensive increase of the Sinking Fund, which we are informed is one of the principal objects? |
40499 | Let me ask gentlemen, if they, or any of their connections, would accept an appointment under this law, with such an exceptionable clause in it? |
40499 | Let me ask, why there is for ever so much complaint against Great Britain because she does not open all her colonies freely to us? |
40499 | Let us pause for a moment, and ask, Was this possible? |
40499 | Let us, then, inquire, is the constituting a public bank necessary to these important and essential ends of Government? |
40499 | Lewis.--Then it was, he said, that if it was not convenient for Mr. MURRAY to be concerned in a share in land, he might have it in money? |
40499 | Little or nothing: how then could he ascertain who was a proper person to legislate or judge of the laws? |
40499 | Look at the constitution of Great Britain; is that all contained in one instrument? |
40499 | MADISON?) |
40499 | Major Torrey died in September, 1783; shall this body decide against the settled rule of all the law courts? |
40499 | Many exertions had he to make to feed the hungry and cover the naked; were not these for the public good, and shall his private property suffer? |
40499 | May no other place be proposed? |
40499 | May not Congress with equal propriety, undertake to regulate the tobacco, the rice, and indigo trade, as well as that of the fisheries? |
40499 | May we promise ourselves more success in negotiation by laying down our arms, or by retaining them? |
40499 | Might they not say that they were betwixt nations what bargains were betwixt individuals? |
40499 | Mr. AMES then asked, whether it was not competent to put the previous question, viz: Shall this call be now taken? |
40499 | Mr. BALDWIN asked if the Government of the United States of America was four or five times worse to be administered than the Governments in Europe? |
40499 | Mr. BENSON wished the committee to consider what he judged to be a previous question, namely, how many departments there should be established? |
40499 | Mr. BOUDINOT asked what assurance we have that Britain will not play the same game over again that she has done already? |
40499 | Mr. CLARK would be very glad to hear the gentleman from Pennsylvania( Mr. FINDLAY) specify, upon what subject he was willing to pay a tax? |
40499 | Mr. DAYTON rose and asked,"Who shall decide, when doctors disagree?" |
40499 | Mr. DEXTER interrupted Mr. HARTLEY to inquire whether, by the laws of this State, the property of an insurgent is forfeited for his crime? |
40499 | Mr. GERRY observed, that some gentleman had said the Speaker is not an officer; but if he is not an officer, what is he? |
40499 | Mr. GILES said this subject had struck him in two points of view: whether Congress are not precluded from exercising any discretion on the subject? |
40499 | Mr. GOODHUE wished to ask Mr. CLAIBORNE one question,"Whether he found himself growing rich?" |
40499 | Mr. JACKSON said, in reply to the inquiry of Mr. SEDGWICK--"Why have we made a difference between the President and the Vice President?" |
40499 | Mr. LAWRENCE would inquire for what purpose the cession, mentioned in the constitution, was required? |
40499 | Mr. LIVINGSTON then proposed a question, Whether any of the shares had been left unappropriated by your associates and you? |
40499 | Mr. MADISON asked if the quantity of rum so exported was very considerable? |
40499 | Mr. NICHOLAS inquired if there was any law on this head? |
40499 | Mr. PARKER wanted to know what was the object of gentlemen in the appointment of a Committee of Conference? |
40499 | Mr. S. asked him, whether in the Senate? |
40499 | Mr. S. asked, what, then, were they? |
40499 | Mr. SMITH was asked whether the offer was that they were to be granted at an inferior rate? |
40499 | Mr. STONE asked the gentleman last up, how he meant to have the amendments incorporated? |
40499 | Mr. T. said, this is all the length which we mean to go, and can any body object to this? |
40499 | Mr. Tilghman asked what Mr. MURRAY expressed to Randall when it was proposed to him to engage in the land scheme? |
40499 | Mr. Tilghman asked, whether Mr. MURRAY did not, to get the man''s whole secret from him, go beyond his views to draw him on? |
40499 | Mr. Tilghman then, through the SPEAKER, asked Mr. MURRAY whether he understood he was to pay for his share of land as the other associates or not? |
40499 | Mr. W. SMITH then asked Randall, whether it was not true, that he spoke to Mr. SAMUEL SMITH before he spoke to himself? |
40499 | Mr. W. asked, was this not done? |
40499 | Mr. WHITNEY was next asked at what time he would be ready to proceed with his defence? |
40499 | Must every transaction that took place, during the course of the last war, be ripped up? |
40499 | Must they pay their expenses too? |
40499 | My colleague says that he is not a man of fortune; but, has he not a profession by which he can make more than by his attendance on this House? |
40499 | Need I say that we fly in the face of that resolution when we pretend that the acts of that power are not valid until we have concurred in them? |
40499 | Negroes, it was said, would not fight; but he would ask whether it was owing to their being black or to their being slaves? |
40499 | Ninety thousand dollars was all the money at stake; but what has since been seen? |
40499 | No, sir; and is it in the contemplation of gentlemen to lay duties so high as to produce this equality? |
40499 | No; but we solicited, and pay dear for that passage; or did we go to the King of Spain, and demand a free navigation of the Mississippi? |
40499 | Now he would be glad to know if the distilleries and fisheries would not be precisely in the same situation, let which would take place? |
40499 | Now will you urge in argument for taxing the poor, that they already practise that temperance which you desire to bring universally about? |
40499 | Now, I ask gentlemen, whether the professed design of those duties was to raise a revenue, or to prevent the importation of those articles? |
40499 | Now, he wished to know, what principle of justice authorized the committee to lay a duty of six cents on molasses? |
40499 | Now, he would ask, if gentlemen could expect that the northern people would incline to go so far south? |
40499 | Now, if these people were to petition Congress to pass a law prohibiting matrimony, would gentlemen agree to refer such a petition? |
40499 | Now, in this case, what would you do? |
40499 | Now, is it intended to determine a centre from these three centres? |
40499 | Now, said he, do we think of refusing this privilege to all heretics in respect to political doctrines? |
40499 | Now, what is meant by reporting plans? |
40499 | Now, what more than this is required by the clause? |
40499 | Now, will any Government take such measures in gathering in its harvest, as to ruin the soil? |
40499 | Of individuals? |
40499 | Of the Treasury Department, too, which is considered in other countries as possessing and exercising the means of corruption? |
40499 | Of what use, then, was it to establish principles which could not govern the conduct of the House? |
40499 | Of what? |
40499 | On a division, shall the committee now rise? |
40499 | On motion for the previous question, to wit: Shall the question be now put on the following preliminary resolutions? |
40499 | On the first of June, the British were to give up the Western posts; if money was not appropriated, would they not be deceived? |
40499 | On the other hand, were not a Greene and a Mifflin furnished from the Society of the Quakers? |
40499 | On the other hand, whether it was not the most effectual mean of preserving his popularity, and of keeping him in office? |
40499 | On their Representatives? |
40499 | On what ground could this assumption have been made? |
40499 | On what principle can this distinction then be contended for? |
40499 | On what principle did he accept it? |
40499 | On what then do the people depend for checking encroachments, or preventing abuses? |
40499 | Once, however, he did see him; the first question of Mr. SEDGWICK was, from what State did he come? |
40499 | Or does it speak the same language now, as it did at the time it was obtained? |
40499 | Or does the Legislature establish them for the convenience of an individual? |
40499 | Or how can they say it is more expensive to establish it in this way than in another? |
40499 | Or is it wise to stand by and depend upon such a resource? |
40499 | Or is the Speaker to write them a letter, or the Sergeant- at- Arms with the mace to wait on them? |
40499 | Or rather, as my colleague has proposed, if they are incapable to pay both, will they not prefer a composition? |
40499 | Or shall we send across the sea for loans? |
40499 | Or shall we, by a candid and liberal construction of the powers expressed in the constitution, promote the great and important objects thereof? |
40499 | Or should we drive all printers from us who take notes, for the inaccuracies of some? |
40499 | Or the ruin of thousands and thousands by our delays of payment, and the consequent depreciation of our securities? |
40499 | Or was it true, that this power was competent to treat with every government on earth but that of Great Britain? |
40499 | Or was there any use for it but that the sentiments of every member might be known? |
40499 | Or where is the justice of doing more for the assignee than he, or his assignor, expected could or would be done? |
40499 | Or whether it restrained the States from exercising that power? |
40499 | Or whether there was any authority given to the Union, with which the exercise of this right by any State would be inconsistent? |
40499 | Or, if his life should not be invaded, what would its enjoyments be in a country odious to the eyes of strangers and dishonored in his own? |
40499 | Or, will the Government of the United States support the claim of the injured against her own Executive? |
40499 | Or, will you say that Congress might issue paper money? |
40499 | Ought they, from their remoteness, to be kept in the dark, or to be furnished with such light as would only mislead? |
40499 | Ought we to have at once acceded to hers? |
40499 | Our understandings have been addressed, it is true, and with ability and effect; but, I demand, has any corner of the heart been left unexplored? |
40499 | Perhaps I may be asked, Did not the States depend chiefly upon their own exertion for the defence of the frontiers under the old Congress? |
40499 | Pray, let me ask, if Great Britain have not equally tied their hands? |
40499 | Pray, would it not be a proper bar to the recovery of damages in a court of law to say Government has paid you? |
40499 | Provisions had been made by this House to carry Indian Treaties into effect; but why? |
40499 | SCOTT.--Has not this Government a right to restrain every wild- goose excursion into the woods? |
40499 | SEDGWICK.--Has it not been said that there was a party in the United States, not only for aristocracy, but even for monarchy? |
40499 | SWIFT) that, by paying these claims in the first instance, you are cutting the sinews of civil process? |
40499 | Shall a Treaty repeal a law or a law a Treaty? |
40499 | Shall his family be reduced to beggary, be stripped of their all, to discharge what the United States are in honor and in justice bound to pay? |
40499 | Shall it be said, that the House have a discretion as to appropriations, and yet they must make them as directed by a Treaty? |
40499 | Shall the House take no further measures on the subject, and receive the answer of the PRESIDENT as obligatory with regard to the question? |
40499 | Shall the Senate, because they may think it in one case trifling, or conceive the power ought to be placed in them, assume it? |
40499 | Shall the United States stipulate solemnly to guarantee the new boundary which may be arranged? |
40499 | Shall they not declare their own and their constituents''confidence undiminished in that officer of the Government? |
40499 | Shall they take the Lake of the Woods on one side, and the Missouri on the other, and find a geographical centre? |
40499 | Shall we hazard an entire loss of this revenue? |
40499 | Shall we intrust the conduct of that matter to the very persons who it has been alleged are often the aggressors? |
40499 | Shall we leave it to the fisherman, to be determined by his oath? |
40499 | Shall we make it an excuse for refusing to pass this vote, that we establish the principle of thanking nobody? |
40499 | Shall we never have done with the settlement and liquidation of our accounts? |
40499 | Shall we not let them see the end of their burthen in the law itself? |
40499 | Shall we put our hands into the pockets of our constituents, and appropriate moneys for uses we are undetermined of? |
40499 | Shall we say that man ought to have been made otherwise? |
40499 | Shall we say that the evidence carries on its face fraud and deception? |
40499 | Shall we sit still and bear it? |
40499 | Shall we then give up to a body, who has already a superiority over us, those superior powers which we possess relative to revenue? |
40499 | Shall we then proceed without them? |
40499 | Shall we then restrain a man from having an agency in the disposal of his own money? |
40499 | Shall we, dreading to become the blind instruments of power, yield ourselves the blinder dupes of mere sounds of imposture? |
40499 | Should Government, said Mr. V., come forward and show their imbecility by censuring what we can not punish? |
40499 | Should any thing be done at this time in the way of commercial regulations towards vindicating and advancing our national interests? |
40499 | Should that credit be destroyed( he asked) by destroying the confidence of foreigners in our faith? |
40499 | Should these fifty dollars fall to the Government, or to me? |
40499 | Should they then pass the law in such a manner as almost to warrant the people in resisting it? |
40499 | Should this bill pass, what can it be denominated but a delusion, a deception, sanctioned by Congress itself? |
40499 | Should those of our citizens who furnished the supplies, or loaned their money, be the only class who are injured? |
40499 | Since the bounty is to cease by this bill, what advantage in striking it out? |
40499 | Sir, did we fight for this? |
40499 | Suppose a person in office, not possessing the talents he was judged to have at the time of the appointment, is the error not to be corrected? |
40499 | Suppose he dislikes them, and will not have them, he is guilty of a breach of the law, is it intended by the House to impeach him for it? |
40499 | Suppose he refuses, will his vote be the less valid, or the community be disengaged from that obedience which is due to the laws of the Union? |
40499 | Suppose that all the Indians were driven over the Mississippi to- morrow, to whom would the lands which they now possess belong? |
40499 | Suppose that authority were in this way to grant millions upon millions, must the House, at all events, be compelled to provide for their payment? |
40499 | Suppose that, on the arrival of the definitive treaty, Congress had not agreed to the terms, would the war have then been considered as at an end? |
40499 | Suppose the revenue should fall short of his estimate, is he responsible for the balance? |
40499 | Suppose they instruct a representative, by his vote, to violate the constitution; is he at liberty to obey such instructions? |
40499 | Suppose, however, that it were omitted, and our country invaded, would a decision in Congress against raising armies be safer than the affirmative? |
40499 | Suppose, then, a vessel of thirty tons obtains, in a season, six hundred quintals of fish? |
40499 | Surely the substance ought not to pay at this rate-- then what good reason can be offered for the measure? |
40499 | Take all these together, is it not to be doubted that twelve hundred and fifty- six dollars will remain of the forty- four thousand in the Treasury? |
40499 | That gentleman wished to know to what point this information was to apply? |
40499 | That is not the question; but whether, organized as we are, under the constitution, we have a right to make such a grant? |
40499 | That it has been contrived with a view to lead them on by degrees to that kind of government which they have thrown off with abhorrence? |
40499 | The British Parliament has now no pay; but have they been as independent as their countrymen wished them under the British Government? |
40499 | The British had gone past them, and what was to hinder the Algerines, or such a man as Mr. Cooper, from getting past them? |
40499 | The French wished to be paid here, and it being no loss, but rather a profit, to comply with their wish, where was the harm in so doing? |
40499 | The House asked a question; the PRESIDENT answered in the negative-- for what purpose refer the answer? |
40499 | The House divided on the question,"Shall the delegate take an oath as a member?" |
40499 | The PRESIDENT asserts it; in the Address reported, the Senate assent; a motion is made to strike out; is it because the truth of it is doubted? |
40499 | The Romans and Greeks had slaves, and are not their glorious achievements held up as excitements to great and magnanimous actions? |
40499 | The SPEAKER asked what time he wanted? |
40499 | The SPEAKER then interrogated the prisoner, whether these charges were true or false? |
40499 | The SPEAKER then said, Is this the prisoner? |
40499 | The Treaty makes war indispensable, as the only redress of injuries, and how will war from the United States reach Great Britain? |
40499 | The United States owe the value they received, which they acknowledge, and which they have promised to pay: what is that value? |
40499 | The bill says it shall cease; and have gentlemen any objection to the bounty''s ceasing? |
40499 | The bill was then read the third time; and on the question, Shall the bill pass? |
40499 | The call for the question being now very general, it was put, shall the words"to be removable by the President,"be struck out? |
40499 | The debt is the price of our liberties, and can not be diminished a farthing, the gentleman from Virginia says; and why? |
40499 | The first of these was, whether the Algerines acted from their own impulse in this matter? |
40499 | The first question is, how much does Government receive by the duty on the salt used in curing the fish which is exported? |
40499 | The first question then was, is Congress vested with a power to grant the privileges contained in the bill? |
40499 | The first questions that offer themselves, are: Was the money in question appropriated to special and distinct purposes? |
40499 | The gentleman from Connecticut wished to know why he had brought this resolution before the House? |
40499 | The gentleman from New Hampshire asked, what do the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate operate upon? |
40499 | The gentleman says further, that the people have the right of instructing their representatives; if so, why not declare it? |
40499 | The government of that territory is a corporation; and who will deny that Congress may lawfully establish a bank beyond the Ohio? |
40499 | The grand question now is, did the State, by acceding to the confederation, give up her right of legislation? |
40499 | The law is to supply the necessary means of executing the principle laid down; for how can it be carried into effect in any other manner? |
40499 | The member asked, if the House were to close their understandings, and refuse all information from that quarter? |
40499 | The merit of the amendment depends on its adaptedness to the end proposed by the bill, and what is that? |
40499 | The next inquiry is, what rights will this company enjoy in this new character, that they do not enjoy independent of it? |
40499 | The next question is, to what amount the public are at present indebted? |
40499 | The only constant agents in political affairs are the passions of men-- shall we complain of our nature? |
40499 | The only question now is, whether this be a direct bounty, or simply a commutation of the allowance already granted by Congress? |
40499 | The only question, therefore, which appears to be before the committee is, whether we shall give this power to the President alone? |
40499 | The point to be settled is whether it shall be done by an oral communication, or transmitted in writing? |
40499 | The previous question being insisted upon, was put--"Shall the main question be now put?" |
40499 | The previous question thereon was called for by five members, to wit:"Shall the main question, to agree to the said resolution, be now put?" |
40499 | The previous question was called for by five members, to wit:"Shall the main question, to agree to the said resolution, be now put?" |
40499 | The previous question was now called for, by five members, viz:"Shall the main question to agree to the said resolution, be now put?" |
40499 | The previous question was then demanded by five members: Shall the main question be now put? |
40499 | The previous question,"Shall the main question now be put?" |
40499 | The principal inquiry is, will the institution facilitate the management of the finances? |
40499 | The question before the committee was, have the United States taken away any claim which the purchasers of these lands had? |
40499 | The question is, did he continue in service to the end of the war? |
40499 | The question is, what shall be the duty on any particular article? |
40499 | The question now to be determined, he conceived, was this-- is an addition to the present amount of the revenue necessary? |
40499 | The question then is, by whom? |
40499 | The question then is, whether the highest sum can be collected? |
40499 | The question then recurred, what Treaties were made under the authority of the United States? |
40499 | The question was called for, and put by the Chairman, Shall the committee now rise, and report progress? |
40499 | The question was taken,"Whether the President of the United States shall be addressed by the title of_ His Excellency_?" |
40499 | The question was then put by the SPEAKER, Shall the committee have leave to sit again? |
40499 | The question was then put, Shall the committee now rise and report progress? |
40499 | The question was then stated, to wit:"Shall the said bill be rejected?" |
40499 | The question was then taken, do the House agree to the amendment? |
40499 | The question was whether they were in a situation in which they could claim to be a State? |
40499 | The question was, had the Secretary violated a law? |
40499 | The question will only be, what powers has the constitution given, and to what departments have the same been distributed? |
40499 | The question, then, is reduced to its expediency, whether it is good policy to exercise the power or not? |
40499 | The remainder, viz:"If not, shall a temporary boundary be marked, making the Oconee the line, and the other parts of the treaty be concluded?" |
40499 | The right of Congress to regulate trade is adduced as an argument in favor of this of creating a corporation; but what has this bill to do with trade? |
40499 | The second, what the sum is that is proper for the article we select? |
40499 | Their present inexperience will soon be done away by a proper mode of discipline, and why may not these troops be soon instructed? |
40499 | Then they deemed war nearly inevitable, and would not this adjustment have been considered at that day as a happy escape from the calamity? |
40499 | Then was it proper, he asked, that the Executive should be requested to make a second answer, and nearly in the same words? |
40499 | Then why all this abuse of this particular sect, without discrimination? |
40499 | Then why disturb the tranquillity of the people? |
40499 | Then why not, for the sake of conciliation, grant it? |
40499 | Then why should the poor of Massachusetts be taxed for the beverage they use of spruce, molasses and water? |
40499 | Then you are bound, by this precedent, to indemnify him; and how can you distinguish what was the real motive to that outrage? |
40499 | There appeared to him only two things as necessary to be inquired into: First, Was the new Government Republican? |
40499 | There is a river, it is said, which runs two hundred miles into the country as far as the Allegany mountains; what advantage can this be to Congress? |
40499 | There is no doubt, sir, but it will; but does this tend to show that the constituent has no right to instruct? |
40499 | There is to be but one head; but does not our Government consist of three parts? |
40499 | Therefore, why involve in this indiscriminate censure men who have deserved so well of their country? |
40499 | These are the commercial acquisitions we have obtained by the Treaty; and let me ask, what have we given to Britain in return for them? |
40499 | They must come in ballast: and will the mere transportation of our crop be a sufficient inducement to engage them to come here? |
40499 | They, indeed, afford an exception to the cases above mentioned; but how far were they successful? |
40499 | This being the fact, he inquired, what could be done with the Southern produce, in case of the exclusion of foreign bottoms? |
40499 | This was a pleasing situation; but what was the situation of the British debtors? |
40499 | This was true, he believed; but how would it apply in the sense the gentleman wished? |
40499 | To others I will urge, can any circumstance mark upon a people more turpitude and debasement? |
40499 | To such a nation was it proper to trust a latitude of that extent? |
40499 | To the first of these I ask, against whom is the suit to commence? |
40499 | To what purpose then to sound the alarm, and to ring the tocsin from Georgia to New Hampshire? |
40499 | To what should they compare Treaties? |
40499 | To what, he asked, would a contrary doctrine lead? |
40499 | To what? |
40499 | To whom was the care of our prisoners in Philadelphia committed? |
40499 | True, it might be asked, why say negroes or other property? |
40499 | Under all circumstances, should not his estate be indemnified? |
40499 | Under it money may be borrowed, as well as commerce regulated; and why not money appropriated? |
40499 | Under these circumstances, do gentlemen contend that an indiscriminate conduct is due to Great Britain and to Holland? |
40499 | Under these circumstances, what was to be expected but complaints from the people, and a consequent repeal of the bill? |
40499 | Under those circumstances what could we have done? |
40499 | Upon what ground, then, do gentlemen stand? |
40499 | VINING.--Why do gentlemen say that such an office is unnecessary, when they are forced to admit that all the duties are essential? |
40499 | Was Government to be burdened with them, and derive no compensation? |
40499 | Was he the author of the Funding System? |
40499 | Was he the author of the plan for establishing the National Bank? |
40499 | Was he the author of the report on the fisheries? |
40499 | Was he to be both judge and executioner in his own case? |
40499 | Was he to manufacture it himself, or in what way could he better obtain it than from the Heads of the Departments? |
40499 | Was it a sufficient reason for exempting a district from public burdens to say that the people are poor? |
40499 | Was it any unusual thing to call for the yeas and nays? |
40499 | Was it consistent with the warmth which had been discovered, to say that all this discussion, all this length of time, had been consumed upon nothing? |
40499 | Was it for this the soldier watched his numerous nights, and braved the inclemency of the seasons? |
40499 | Was it in the opposition to the minority of the Senate and the general voice of the people against the treaty that that_ firmness_ was displayed? |
40499 | Was it intended to have the constitution republished, and the alterations inserted in their proper places? |
40499 | Was it not already settled in the constitution and by existing laws? |
40499 | Was it not better to fill up the old corps, than to put ourselves to the inconvenience of raising a new one? |
40499 | Was it not necessary for them to consult, and fix upon a proper place? |
40499 | Was it not the ecclesiastical corporations and perpetual monopolies of England and Scotland? |
40499 | Was it not then urged by members of that House that the British nation refused to negotiate with them? |
40499 | Was it not to substantiate the truth of them by a vote? |
40499 | Was it right that when a man had led our armies to victory, and returned, that he should be immediately stripped of his commission? |
40499 | Was it they who formed the constitution? |
40499 | Was it to be wondered at, if this swarm should raise a buzz about him? |
40499 | Was it to remain as a pledge for the performance of the other? |
40499 | Was it wantonly to throw away a privilege and natural right? |
40499 | Was merit, then, to be the less regarded, because it was modest? |
40499 | Was not peace the most to be desired, especially in our present situation? |
40499 | Was not the good of the public his principal object? |
40499 | Was not this representation true, he asked; could it be controverted? |
40499 | Was not this returning good for evil? |
40499 | Was not this true of all the great and essential powers of government? |
40499 | Was one branch to be judges of discretion for another? |
40499 | Was the Executive to trust the defence of a country to a militia formed under such a law? |
40499 | Was the Message then alone referred as it is now proposed by some gentlemen? |
40499 | Was the money, he asked, to have remained in the hands of the banker in Europe? |
40499 | Was the property less changed by the law of a sovereign and independent State, than by the proclamation of a British commander? |
40499 | Was there any other country which could give us the same supplies we wanted? |
40499 | Was there no security against a wanton abuse of these enormous powers? |
40499 | Was there no security in the watchful guardianship of such a character? |
40499 | Was this depreciated paper freely accepted? |
40499 | Was this insinuation pointed at Congress or the Executive? |
40499 | Was this paper equal in value to gold or silver? |
40499 | Was this the case? |
40499 | Was this the object of the reference to the Secretary? |
40499 | Was this, he asked, an exposition of the meaning of the constitution? |
40499 | We have no doubt been cruelly treated; but we have made proper application for redress, and received an answer? |
40499 | We refer, said he, to the wisdom of the Senate; but how is this superior wisdom to be discerned? |
40499 | Were dollars, he asked, to be balanced by absolute appropriations? |
40499 | Were not hundreds of Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and almost of every other denomination, among our enemies? |
40499 | Were not the archives, records, deeds,& c., which had also fallen into the hands of the enemy, their property? |
40499 | Were not the latter as necessary as the former? |
40499 | Were our citizens in a state of organization as militia? |
40499 | Were our magazines and arsenals properly supplied? |
40499 | Were our ports and harbors in any tolerable state of defence? |
40499 | Were the Committee of the Whole to turn authors and write a dissertation on part of the constitution? |
40499 | Were the Senate so chosen? |
40499 | Were the advocates of this doctrine aware of its consequences, when they advanced it? |
40499 | Were the citizens of the Northern and Eastern States to dictate to Congress on a measure in which the Southern States were so deeply interested? |
40499 | Were the people jealous of this House, and not of the other branches? |
40499 | Were there any petitions on the subject excepting that from the Pennsylvania Society and a few Quakers? |
40499 | Were they called upon to give an opinion? |
40499 | Were they to propose such a plan as this to us, would it not be received with indignation? |
40499 | Were we not bound to take as much care of our own interest, as of that of other people? |
40499 | Were we to demand satisfaction? |
40499 | Were women and fatherless children to be regarded as traitors? |
40499 | What are the emigrant nobility to renounce? |
40499 | What are the rights of conquest? |
40499 | What are these powers? |
40499 | What are they to bring back in return? |
40499 | What are they to do if they are discharged? |
40499 | What are you? |
40499 | What authority has this House to explain the law? |
40499 | What clause is it that gives this power in express terms? |
40499 | What could be more immoral than war? |
40499 | What could he know of the Government the moment he landed? |
40499 | What could induce this grant? |
40499 | What denominations formed the thousands of new levies, that endeavored to deluge our country in blood? |
40499 | What did the House meet for at all? |
40499 | What did they want to do with it? |
40499 | What difference, he asked, was there on that occasion and the present, when the French just adopted and organized a new government? |
40499 | What does it import? |
40499 | What effect would this doctrine, if admitted, have upon the State governments? |
40499 | What equivalent do we receive for this sacrifice? |
40499 | What evidence have we that the demand will stop there? |
40499 | What good did his renunciation of title do, excepting that it afforded him a short opportunity of deceiving his fellow- citizens? |
40499 | What good end could have been answered by a war? |
40499 | What had been our situation ever since the negotiation? |
40499 | What had been the custom of the House heretofore? |
40499 | What has been the conduct of Great Britain, in relation to her funds? |
40499 | What has carried the credit of that kingdom to a superior eminence, but the attention she has paid to public credit? |
40499 | What has he left her to ask, what has he not surrendered? |
40499 | What have Congress to do with the acts of States? |
40499 | What if he refuses to answer at all? |
40499 | What is a law? |
40499 | What is now his answer? |
40499 | What is now our prospect? |
40499 | What is patriotism? |
40499 | What is the PRESIDENT and two- thirds of the Senate? |
40499 | What is the centre of wealth, population, and territory? |
40499 | What is the charge? |
40499 | What is the object for which men enter into society, but to secure their lives and property? |
40499 | What is the object of the address before us? |
40499 | What is the present case? |
40499 | What is the present situation of our commerce? |
40499 | What is the purport of the memorial? |
40499 | What is the situation of Florence in consequence of this event? |
40499 | What is the situation of those who are implicated in the causes of the failure? |
40499 | What is the usual means of acquiring property between man and man? |
40499 | What is there in the Treaty that could humble us so low? |
40499 | What is there to discharge the Government from the payment? |
40499 | What is to be done for compensation? |
40499 | What is to be done while the impeachment is depending? |
40499 | What is your name? |
40499 | What is your usual place of residence? |
40499 | What justifies these harsh epithets? |
40499 | What kind of a business would this be? |
40499 | What kind of reasoning was this, or how did the gentleman propose to reconcile it? |
40499 | What man is there here that can be wicked enough to involve his country in such incalculable miseries? |
40499 | What may Great Britain expect, if we will not settle our differences by negotiation? |
40499 | What may be the consequence of binding a man to vote in all cases according to the will of others? |
40499 | What may we expect will be the conduct of our own citizens? |
40499 | What must have passed, he asked, between the soldier, the militiaman, or farmer, and the purchaser? |
40499 | What occasion, then, can there be for them? |
40499 | What reason could be adduced for acting? |
40499 | What reason could the purchaser assign for offering £10 for a paper which specified an obligation to pay £100? |
40499 | What reason is there for any such supposition? |
40499 | What right had the House to say to a particular class of people, you shall not have that kind of property which other people have? |
40499 | What security can there be for a commerce thus precariously conducted, in which your rivals are your judge? |
40499 | What then are we called upon to do? |
40499 | What then is the officer to be responsible for, which should induce the House to vest in him such extraordinary powers? |
40499 | What then remains of your constitution, except its mode of organization? |
40499 | What then should we have done? |
40499 | What then will be the case? |
40499 | What was it drove our forefathers to this country? |
40499 | What was the allegiance, as a citizen of South Carolina, he owed to the King of Great Britain? |
40499 | What was the case in the present instance? |
40499 | What was the conduct of gentlemen? |
40499 | What was the conduct of this society when the first news of the late insurrection reached them? |
40499 | What was the effect of the embargo in 1794? |
40499 | What was the event? |
40499 | What was the present measure? |
40499 | What was the representation to do? |
40499 | What was the situation of the people of America, when the dissolution of their allegiance took place by the declaration of independence? |
40499 | What was their interest, then? |
40499 | What was this consideration? |
40499 | What weapons have we which can reach her? |
40499 | What were the powers and privileges of the House on the subject? |
40499 | What were the steps then taken in that parallel case? |
40499 | What will the assignee lose by the measure? |
40499 | What will their constituents think of them? |
40499 | What will this comprehend, or, rather, what will it not comprehend? |
40499 | What would be the consequence, said Mr. B., of refusing at this time, and under these circumstances, to receive this State into the Union? |
40499 | What would be the effect of a contrary doctrine? |
40499 | What would be the effect of such an act of Parliament? |
40499 | What would follow from this? |
40499 | What( he asked) was their situation, and what had they to fear in case of an open rupture with Great Britain? |
40499 | What, he asked, could be the end of all these things but war? |
40499 | What, he asked, were these? |
40499 | What, he further asked, would become of our produce, in the event contemplated? |
40499 | What, let me inquire, will be the pernicious consequences resulting from the establishment of this doctrine? |
40499 | What, said he, are we about to do? |
40499 | What, said he, is its object? |
40499 | What, said he, would be the consequence of such construction? |
40499 | What, sir, is the intention of this business? |
40499 | What, then, becomes of its strength? |
40499 | What, then, permit me to inquire, can the power of treating effect? |
40499 | When Britain has been at the trouble of stipulating a peace for Portugal, will she suffer that nation to assist us? |
40499 | When a million of dollars had been expended, were the House to give them fifteen or twenty thousand dollars more? |
40499 | When an exasperated militia went out, what were we to expect, but that the first man with a red skin whom they met would be shot? |
40499 | When did their citizenship commence? |
40499 | When it was laid before them, it was then contended that the House had a right to interfere in the Treaty, or why ask for it? |
40499 | When you first cut a man''s throat, and thereafter call him a rascal, do you suppose that your accusation will affect the man''s reputation? |
40499 | Whence arises, then, the opposition? |
40499 | Where are they to be formed? |
40499 | Where could be the pretence for any thing of this sort? |
40499 | Where did these gentlemen find that definition of treason? |
40499 | Where does the conciliating temper of Great Britain manifest itself? |
40499 | Where has that power been placed? |
40499 | Where is it? |
40499 | Where is that will to be found? |
40499 | Where is the breach of faith in Government, if it paid its whole debt with justice, blended with mercy? |
40499 | Where is the denomination amongst us, that did not furnish opposers to our glorious Revolution? |
40499 | Where is the difference between this case and that of indemnifying the losses at sea by the British? |
40499 | Where is the justice of doing more for the assignee than he or his assignor expected could or would be done? |
40499 | Where is the man among us who has the presumption and vanity to expect it? |
40499 | Where is the propriety of branding a measure of this nature with epithets of infamy? |
40499 | Where must they look in the United States for the sovereign power? |
40499 | Where should they find that power in Great Britain? |
40499 | Where then is it to be found? |
40499 | Where then? |
40499 | Where was the money to come from? |
40499 | Where were the benefits of peace, if they were still to keep up our War Establishments? |
40499 | Where, he asked, is the proof of this allegation? |
40499 | Where, then, are the real profits anticipated? |
40499 | Where, then, is the danger of expressing a general approbation? |
40499 | Wherefore was it provided that no duty should be laid on exports? |
40499 | Whether a like conciliatory conduct has not been observed by the advocates of manufactures? |
40499 | Whether it was to be a fleeting vision, or to continue for ages? |
40499 | Whether the public opinion was four or five times more unfavorable to such an administration? |
40499 | Whether they shall be under the direction of Commissioners? |
40499 | Which of these alternatives have they elected to do? |
40499 | While the British had acted with so much liberality, did it become Americans to stick at the paltry sum of seventeen thousand dollars? |
40499 | Who are benefited by the revolution? |
40499 | Who are those that say to us, Germantown is the most proper spot that can be selected? |
40499 | Who constituted this class of citizens? |
40499 | Who did not believe that such an event was not only possible, but in some degree probable? |
40499 | Who fought the battles of Georgia, under Clark and Twiggs? |
40499 | Who fought the battles of New Jersey? |
40499 | Who fought the battles of South Carolina, under the command of an honorable member now present? |
40499 | Who had been the cause of the posts being so long kept from the United States? |
40499 | Who had the most produce to sell? |
40499 | Who has firmness enough to meet so foul a deed? |
40499 | Who has not heard of the rebellion of_ Shays_, where a great deal of property was destroyed? |
40499 | Who have fought the Indians so often with success, under Generals Wilkinson, Scott, Sevier, and others? |
40499 | Who marched in 1776 under General Rutherford, through the Cherokee nation, laid waste their country, and forced them to peace? |
40499 | Who shall declare what is the law, when the learned gentlemen of the bar are so directly opposed to each other? |
40499 | Who suffers by this use of our authority? |
40499 | Who were the purchasers? |
40499 | Who were to be the losers, under these circumstances? |
40499 | Who will accuse me of wandering out of the subject? |
40499 | Who will hereafter admit an excise officer into his house, if that house may, with impunity, be burned about his ears? |
40499 | Who will say that I exaggerate the tendencies of our measures? |
40499 | Who will suffer most? |
40499 | Who will trace these inferences, and pretend that we may have no share, according to the argument, in the Treaty- making power? |
40499 | Who, under mere motives of friendship, would have done so? |
40499 | Why a reference? |
40499 | Why all this particular deviation from the common line of business to pass random votes of censure? |
40499 | Why are they called upon to say, yea or nay, if they are obliged to say yea? |
40499 | Why borrow money? |
40499 | Why did the United States contract with the State, if she had no right? |
40499 | Why did they not leave that, which they call God''s work, to be managed by himself? |
40499 | Why do n''t you indemnify British depredations out of the British property that is within your grasp?" |
40499 | Why is it necessary to fix upon Philadelphia for ten years? |
40499 | Why is this penalty imposed on the United States? |
40499 | Why lay a duty on foreign nails, when they can not rival you if you make them as good and as cheap? |
40499 | Why leave a phantom of discretion, an unreal mockery of power, in the hands of the Legislature? |
40499 | Why leave it only to be implied? |
40499 | Why not also fix the principles of Government? |
40499 | Why not choose the Speaker of this House? |
40499 | Why not come forward, and demand of us the power of Legislation, and say, give us up your privileges, and we will govern you? |
40499 | Why not protect this property as well? |
40499 | Why not tell them at once, and in plain English, you must renounce your titles before you can have the privileges of an American citizen? |
40499 | Why not? |
40499 | Why shall we liquidate a debt which is established upon a complete and final settlement? |
40499 | Why should a man take a dangerous and a doubtful path, when a safe one presents itself? |
40499 | Why should we interfere with the concerns of our sister States who have not yet joined the new Government? |
40499 | Why so little jealousy of the Executive Department, separated by the constitution with so much care from us? |
40499 | Why so? |
40499 | Why then provide for it a second time? |
40499 | Why then should we interfere in the business? |
40499 | Why this harsh language? |
40499 | Why use so hackneyed a word? |
40499 | Why was the call delayed till the session was within a few weeks of its termination? |
40499 | Why was the subject mentioned? |
40499 | Why were the resolutions brought before the House? |
40499 | Why were these rights ever maintained and so scrupulously attended to by the people of those countries? |
40499 | Why were we afraid to intrust the PRESIDENT with the power of raising ten thousand men? |
40499 | Why were you so long in presenting your petition? |
40499 | Why will these people, then, make use of arguments to induce the slave to turn his hand against his master? |
40499 | Why, especially, he asked, should they give rise to invidious comparisons between themselves and the other branch? |
40499 | Why, let me ask gentlemen, shall we commit an infraction of the constitution for fear the Senate or President should not comply with its directions? |
40499 | Why, only that this was his opinion; but is that authority here? |
40499 | Why, said Mr. L., communicate the instructions to the Ministers? |
40499 | Why, said Mr. S., will not the Eastern members indulge us in this trifle? |
40499 | Why, then fix the price as if the whole Army was to be kept there? |
40499 | Why, then, are we called upon to propose amendments subversive of the principles of the constitution, which were never desired? |
40499 | Why, then, call for them? |
40499 | Why, then, did he suffer the bill to pass the committee in silence? |
40499 | Why, then, embarrass themselves by making a larger appropriation than was necessary? |
40499 | Why, then, expend so much precious time unnecessarily? |
40499 | Why, then, hazard words that infer it? |
40499 | Why, then, is a period of ten years to expire, previous to going there? |
40499 | Why, then, make this rant about the British? |
40499 | Why, then, shall we be told that the negative is the safe side? |
40499 | Why, then, should such particular attention be paid to them, for bringing forward a business of questionable policy? |
40499 | Why, then, should the House search for a meaning, to make the constitution inconsistent with itself, when a more rational one is at hand? |
40499 | Why, then, will gentlemen advocate a doctrine so obnoxious to the principles of the constitution, when a more favorable construction is at hand? |
40499 | Why, therefore, all this extraneous argument about a point of so easy decision? |
40499 | Why_ firmness_? |
40499 | Will Virginia set all her negroes free? |
40499 | Will a duty of ten dollars diminish the importation? |
40499 | Will any one answer by a sneer, that all this is idle preaching? |
40499 | Will any one deny that we are bound-- and I would hope to good purpose-- by the most solemn sanctions of duty for the vote we give? |
40499 | Will gentlemen say it is"We the people"in this case? |
40499 | Will gentlemen then say, that to gratify a thoughtless regard for economy, they will risk the most invaluable part of the Government? |
40499 | Will gentlemen, said he, blast this prospect by rejecting the bill? |
40499 | Will gentlemen, then, comply with the one, and neglect the other? |
40499 | Will he live in a more expensive style than the former Presidents of Congress, or will he live nearly in the same? |
40499 | Will he not feel some dread that a change of system will reverse the scene? |
40499 | Will he submit, after having gained his point at the expense of property and the loss of constitution, to have those sentiments established? |
40499 | Will it be said that we are unable to do it? |
40499 | Will it be whispered that the Treaty has made me a new champion for the protection of the frontiers? |
40499 | Will it materially affect the price of rice or tobacco? |
40499 | Will it not alarm our fellow- citizens? |
40499 | Will it not be subversive of every principle on which public contracts are founded? |
40499 | Will it not give them just cause of alarm? |
40499 | Will it not have probably a contrary effect, and be the means of increasing the evil tenfold more than it exists at present? |
40499 | Will it restore value to the evidences of that debt held by our creditors? |
40499 | Will not gentlemen weigh well that vote, that may possibly increase the number of mourning widows and helpless orphans? |
40499 | Will not precluding them look like a wish to smother all further inquiry into the matter? |
40499 | Will not the administration of public affairs be conducted in future by representatives as good as ourselves? |
40499 | Will not their traders continue their old acquaintanceship with them in spite of us? |
40499 | Will not these people who suffered by the Tories in the last war come next, with open mouths, and demand indemnity? |
40499 | Will she make her countervail oppressive and unjust? |
40499 | Will she not expect that we shall resort to more violent measures-- such as reprisal, sequestration, or stopping of intercourse? |
40499 | Will such a scheme increase it? |
40499 | Will the Senate refuse to make an acknowledgment of that kind? |
40499 | Will the strength and riches of the country be to the north or to the south of the Susquehanna? |
40499 | Will the tendency to Indian hostilities be contrasted by any one? |
40499 | Will the treatment be better than usual? |
40499 | Will they be reported in such a form even? |
40499 | Will they contribute any thing by consuming imported spirits? |
40499 | Will they do it against the State of North Carolina? |
40499 | Will they expose themselves to be preyed upon by these men? |
40499 | Will they give up the money they cost them, and to whom? |
40499 | Will they have less wisdom or virtue, to discover and pursue the good of their fellow- citizens than we have? |
40499 | Will they make the representation of the several States the rule by which it shall be apportioned? |
40499 | Will they not have to pay taxes from the time they settle amongst us? |
40499 | Will they not say, that they have been deceived by the convention that framed the constitution? |
40499 | Will they rack- rent their tenants in such a manner as to deprive them of the means of improving the estate? |
40499 | Will they refuse to sell us their manufactures? |
40499 | Will they submit to an excise? |
40499 | Will they tamely submit to be robbed of their property, when they lose all hope of aid or protection from the Government? |
40499 | Will this prevent an increase of the public debt? |
40499 | Will this reconcile the minds of our people to the General Government? |
40499 | Will you adopt a charge against him, which is in its nature an imputation that however lightly and wickedly made, will implicate perhaps innocent men? |
40499 | Will you gain by this contest? |
40499 | Will you restrain him from having access to the members out of doors? |
40499 | Will you return to every other person exporting dutied goods the money he has paid, and will you refuse the poor fisherman? |
40499 | Will you shelter yourself under the plea of necessity? |
40499 | Will you then raise a force to drive them off? |
40499 | Will you, he observed, permit, nay, invite him, whom you arraign at the bar of this House, to be a public accuser? |
40499 | With respect to the more absolute government of France, where has this power been lodged? |
40499 | With what degree of consistency can the House be called on for a vote if, as some members contend, they can not have an opinion? |
40499 | Woodfall, a celebrated printer, took down debates from memory: could we prevent this being done here? |
40499 | Work for a living? |
40499 | Would Congress have had the power to naturalize, if it had not been expressly given? |
40499 | Would any body say that French liberty was better secured by naming a harbor_ Havre de Marat_? |
40499 | Would any jury in this country say, that the matter of fact and the principles of law were not in favor of the petition? |
40499 | Would any legislature endeavor to introduce into a former act a subsequent amendment, and let them stand so connected? |
40499 | Would any man call this a communication from the Executive? |
40499 | Would any man risk the feelings and character of his friend by an attempt to force a vote of thanks by a bare majority through the House? |
40499 | Would any man say that the sole object of self- created societies has been the publication of political doctrines? |
40499 | Would any one doubt that Congress may lend money, that they may buy their debt in the market, or redeem their captives from Algiers? |
40499 | Would any plain man suppose that this bill had any thing to do with trade? |
40499 | Would arguments of this kind satisfy our constituents, if they should find themselves suddenly plunged into an expensive and ruinous war? |
40499 | Would even the citizens of the other States, which did not possess this property, desire to have all the slaves let loose upon them? |
40499 | Would gentlemen narrow the operation of the constitution in this manner, and render it impossible to be executed? |
40499 | Would he have pledged his honor, his reputation, had he been interested? |
40499 | Would he not, though absent, have acquired, according to the petitioner''s own positions, a right of citizenship? |
40499 | Would it add to his fame to be called after the petty and insignificant princes of Europe? |
40499 | Would it be proper to give an approbation that can not be appropriate, and that has no definite meaning? |
40499 | Would it be prudent to trust a foreigner, perhaps a rival, if not an enemy, with your supply of what has emphatically been called the sinews of war? |
40499 | Would it have been best to have traded with them upon sufferance, and so to have maintained a precarious kind of commerce? |
40499 | Would it not expose us to exorbitant demands, and often a refusal? |
40499 | Would not Congress have been in the same situation as before the signing of the provisional articles? |
40499 | Would not a Treaty made under it be clearly the law of England? |
40499 | Would not such a step be injurious even to the slaves themselves? |
40499 | Would not the end of impeachment be defeated by this means? |
40499 | Would not the measures have been reprobated with one voice, and the Treaty considered as a nullity? |
40499 | Would our foreign creditors believe we were scrupulously fulfilling our engagements with them? |
40499 | Would styling him His Serene Highness, His Grace, or Mightiness, add one tittle to the solid properties he possessed? |
40499 | Would the citizens of that country tamely suffer their property to be torn from them? |
40499 | Would the makers of shoes be content to go there and retail them? |
40499 | Would they not say, a vote of thanks has been rejected? |
40499 | Would twelve of this House, or would any jury in the country say that the war continued longer than hostilities? |
40499 | Yes, said he, we have still a constitution, but where is it to be found? |
40499 | Yet are they not thought to be justified by national policy? |
40499 | You declare yourself not guilty? |
40499 | _ Executive Departments._--Resolution respecting, 85; debate thereon, 85; how many departments shall be established? |
40499 | _ Treasury Department._--Debate, 90; shall this important department be in the hands of a single officer or in a Board of Commissioners? |
40499 | _ ad valorem_, paid, as it were, in an exclusive manner, by the State of Massachusetts, be equal? |
40499 | a pretence to cover their ambition? |
40499 | and did we assure ourselves of the full execution of the law? |
40499 | and if we make them such grants every year, do we not in fact become tributary to them? |
40499 | and that the hope of the justice we now ask for has delayed the sale of all the rest, to satisfy his creditors-- his Southern creditors? |
40499 | and was not the member from Virginia( Mr. MADISON) of this opinion, as I have before stated? |
40499 | and was not this merely because the Indians were unable to pay for themselves? |
40499 | and whether, if they are not, it is expedient for them to exercise this discretion at this time? |
40499 | and would not all acts of Parliament, prior and repugnant to it, be repealed by it? |
40499 | and, had not his colleague( Mr. LIVINGSTON) quoted the secret Journals of the House? |
40499 | duty, with freight and shipping charges, be sufficient encouragement? |
40499 | if not, what proportion?" |
40499 | interest should be paid on it, 196; if the Government is one party and the individual the other, who is the judge? |
40499 | on his capital; and that capital tenfold? |
40499 | on his capital? |
40499 | or the plundering of the high seas legalized under the name of privateering? |
40499 | or to whom? |
40499 | or using such harsh expressions as have issued like a torrent from a gentleman on the other side of the House? |
40499 | or whether we shall tamely supplicate for justice, and suffer the most effectual means of compulsion to elude our grasp? |
40499 | or will posterity have a more favorable opinion of the original, because it has been amended by distinct acts? |
40499 | that Mr. Rutledge has prevented executions from taking the Georgia estate by his personal interference? |
40499 | that all the estates in Rhode Island and New Jersey are sold? |
40499 | then is it wrong to express their confidence? |
40499 | what can the committee report? |
40499 | what is money, when put in competition with the lives of our friends and brethren? |
40499 | what would be gained by it? |
40499 | whether repugnance to a compliance with such demands was not created by such means? |
40499 | why adopted? |
40499 | would not carry away slaves at that time in possession of Americans? |
47289 | Did you give this advice to your American correspondents, upon the supposition that America would acquiesce in the Orders in Council? 47289 For what reason? |
47289 | Have you lately written to your correspondents in America respecting shipments of American produce to this country? 47289 If the American embargo in general were taken off, and the Orders in Council to be continued, would his trade in that case revive? |
47289 | In what degree would it affect the dealers in those commodities brought to this country, as to their remittances to this country? 47289 In what manner? |
47289 | Is she? |
47289 | To what effect have you so written? 47289 Washington, sir, was not a lawyer, and who can wonder that his fair mind was alarmed by such a solemn declaration? |
47289 | What is the reason that the Orders in Council prevent the witness sending our cotton goods in ships in ballast? 47289 Who can be so cruel as to refuse him this favor?" |
47289 | Why not? 47289 Would the Orders in Council have any other effect as to discouraging the trade? |
47289 | & c.& c. If a parcel of kegs, in those days, alarmed them so much, what will Fulton''s torpedoes do now? |
47289 | 100; why then should they not be manned? |
47289 | 128; is this House to have no influence on the conduct of the Executive? |
47289 | 138; is this House sitting as a body to remunerate those who violated the laws? |
47289 | 138; the subject of contribution considered, 139; let the inquiry be made, 139; what good purpose can it answer? |
47289 | 146; have not the British subjects been liberated? |
47289 | 146; what connection exists between the statements that have been made and the merits of the case? |
47289 | 146; what has been the situation of Great Britain to Spain? |
47289 | 148; what influence was his opinion to have? |
47289 | 149; has Congress a right in order to determine the title to landed property, to refer it to any tribunal whatever? |
47289 | 157; this bill is a concession to Great Britain and is not a hostility to France, 157; what injuries has France done? |
47289 | 172; letter of Mr. Jackson, 172; what does it amount to? |
47289 | 189; not the true principle, 189; what principles are more specifically asserted by Great Britain? |
47289 | 194; if such were the circumstances, does not the occasion require that the American Government take a firm and decided stand? |
47289 | 196; did he know that Mr. Erskine had not full power? |
47289 | 196; it was not his duty to know that he had not full powers? |
47289 | 201; what are the expressions in which it is conveyed? |
47289 | 218; is the experiment worthy to be made? |
47289 | 256; what is the nature and import of this proclamation? |
47289 | 262; is the proclamation an authorized measure of war and legislation? |
47289 | 262; what, then, is the true construction of the treaties of St. Ildefonso and of April, 1803? |
47289 | 281; what is a corporation such as the bill contemplates? |
47289 | 282; the States have the exclusive power to regulate contracts, 282; what participation has this bank in the collection of the revenue? |
47289 | 28; what are our preparations? |
47289 | 28; what is the state of the treasury? |
47289 | 28; what plans are offered for replenishing it? |
47289 | 294; what did mechanics here say relative to granting this charter? |
47289 | 29; consequences of non- intercourse under such circumstances, 30; who has been the first aggressor? |
47289 | 29; if we are to have war, with whom is it to be prosecuted? |
47289 | 29; under these circumstances what is the course that policy would dictate to this country to pursue? |
47289 | 2d, is it expedient? |
47289 | 354; as to France, what are the edicts revoked, and how? |
47289 | 359; are we prepared for those conditions? |
47289 | 368; are we bound by any faithful performance had on the part of France? |
47289 | 368; have either France or Great Britain complied with the condition? |
47289 | 369; is this an honest neutrality to revive the restrictive system against Great Britain, while the French decrees are still in force? |
47289 | 369; must this sacrifice be made in order to bolster up the President''s proclamation so prematurely issued? |
47289 | 369; the present measure is intended as a propitiatory sacrifice to conciliate Napoleon, 369; is it calculated to produce this effect? |
47289 | 372; under the act of May, 1810, 372; what is its character and the obligations arising under it? |
47289 | 373; the occurrence of the fact of revocation involves the propriety of the proclamation, 373; has the fact occurred? |
47289 | 388; has a similar temper and disposition been shown to Great Britain as to France, in the interpretation of the Cadore letter? |
47289 | 407; who are most interested in commerce; the growers of the articles, or the factors, or freighters employed in their exchange? |
47289 | 434; it would be necessary to know the ulterior views of the committee, 434; for what purpose are these troops wanted? |
47289 | 448; gentlemen will not say, we have not a good cause for war, but insist that it is our duty to define it, 448; what do they mean by this? |
47289 | 475; in such statutes there are always exceptions, 475; what would be the course of an individual? |
47289 | 600; where is your commerce to protect? |
47289 | 603; what were the preparations for the Revolutionary war? |
47289 | 624; is there probability of obtaining a recognition of this principle by a continuance of the war? |
47289 | 636; were ever a body of men so abandoned in the hour of need as the American Cabinet by Bonaparte? |
47289 | 698; what did an elevated fitness of character and conduct require of this nation when war was declared? |
47289 | 6; it was a farce, 6; ample time had been given for her to make other arrangements, 6; what accounts have we from there? |
47289 | 70; what are the reasons why the embargo has not come fully up to the expectations of its supporters? |
47289 | 70; yet it has been particularly serviceable in many instances? |
47289 | 75 Blind Alice; A Tale for Good Children, 38 Ellen Leslie; or, The Reward of Self- Control, 38 Florence Arnott; or, Is She Generous? |
47289 | 84; it is not expedient to adopt the second resolution, 84; what will be the effect of the embargo, if continued, as respects ourselves? |
47289 | A people presenting such an aspect, what have they to expect abroad? |
47289 | A possession_ by force_? |
47289 | A serious invasion? |
47289 | Accompanied with this most consequential inquiry:"Is not this a new State to be admitted? |
47289 | After the declaration of war, had they any disposition to assail us? |
47289 | After the declaration of war, what has been the conduct of the Executive? |
47289 | Again, I ask, were the principles of the embargo submission in 1774-''5-''6? |
47289 | Again, sir, I would ask the advocates of the doctrine I am reprobating, when will it be proper to show the folly and ruinous consequences of the war? |
47289 | Again, sir, has the gentleman no feeling for the sufferings, no ear for the groans of our suffering seamen? |
47289 | Again, what was the effect of the non- intercourse in 1809 upon our Treasury? |
47289 | Against France? |
47289 | Against whom were these charges brought? |
47289 | Against whom? |
47289 | All the evasions of the embargo have been made with a view to that supply; enforce it, and from whence will they procure the article of lumber? |
47289 | Am I not, then, Mr. Speaker, authorized to say, that the condition of the law of May, 1810, has not been complied with? |
47289 | Am I then required to vote for a measure of this kind? |
47289 | Am I to conclude that they are really Americans in principle? |
47289 | An ambitious General might corrupt his army, and seize the Capitol-- but will an Admiral reduce us to subjection by bringing his ships up the Potomac? |
47289 | And I would ask whether either of these events had happened when this corps of militia were ordered out? |
47289 | And about what? |
47289 | And are gentlemen considering the restoration of the seamen taken from the Chesapeake as a reason why we should continue the interdict? |
47289 | And are gentlemen prepared to obey? |
47289 | And are we not in the act of yielding obedience? |
47289 | And are we prepared to pronounce so heavy a denunciation on our predecessors, on ourselves, and the other great Departments of our Government? |
47289 | And are we so sunk in the estimation of the mighty conqueror, that he thinks it necessary and proper to use this as his official language towards us? |
47289 | And are we, he asked, to be deprived of it when we come to this House-- when we enter this temple of liberty? |
47289 | And are we, under such circumstances, to renew negotiation by extra missions? |
47289 | And are you now about again to jeopardize the peace of this nation, without any cause whatever? |
47289 | And are you ready to repeal the embargo under such a threat as this? |
47289 | And as to excuse, will it be said that there is nothing of the sort in this case? |
47289 | And by whom was it opposed? |
47289 | And by whom were they made? |
47289 | And could any thing be gathered from any thing they had ever written or said, to induce a belief that this Government had not acted with sincerity? |
47289 | And did this state of prosperity exist at a time when your commerce was protected by vessels of war? |
47289 | And do I enjoy my right of walking the street by making myself a prisoner? |
47289 | And do gentlemen believe Great Britain is willing to sacrifice all these considerations to a refusal to do you justice? |
47289 | And does she not remain sole mistress? |
47289 | And for whom? |
47289 | And from what premises is such a conclusion drawn? |
47289 | And have we adopted the monkish plan of scourging ourselves for the sins of others? |
47289 | And have we no means of doing this? |
47289 | And here, Mr. Speaker, let me ask what other class of men in our society can you find who would have acted thus nobly? |
47289 | And how do I prove it? |
47289 | And how has it been regarded by the belligerents? |
47289 | And how is this proved to be a remedy? |
47289 | And how was it to be effected? |
47289 | And how would this bill, Mr. Q. asked, less violate the constitution than such an act would have done? |
47289 | And how, sir, is it attempted to rebut this fact? |
47289 | And if it did, and this power was offensive, why was it not stricken out when the amendment was made? |
47289 | And if it has, is it proper so to decide it? |
47289 | And if not greater, has not an allowance been made for the capture of some of our ships, or, in other words, for the building of new ones? |
47289 | And if they be, sir, what inducement can possibly prevent unanimity on the present occasion? |
47289 | And if they do not intend thus to rely, in what possible way could it serve that Government thus darkly to insinuate it? |
47289 | And in comparing this bill with those declarations, will it be possible to conceive that we are consistent? |
47289 | And in fact does it not so demand in many instances? |
47289 | And is it come to this? |
47289 | And is it not better to submit to some inconveniences, eventually to insure a free trade? |
47289 | And is not a man thereby to be deprived of property without due process of law? |
47289 | And is not here an express authority?" |
47289 | And is the President to judge from the thanks of the House that he has done his duty? |
47289 | And is this bill a pioneer to the new swarms of"continental"locusts? |
47289 | And it may be fairly asked here, what measures Great Britain has taken to prevent her officers from impressing our seamen? |
47289 | And lastly, will the force be an economical one? |
47289 | And may we not suppose that these proud Spaniards, as they are called, may have feelings of a like nature? |
47289 | And must this sacrifice be made in order to bolster up the President''s proclamation so prematurely issued? |
47289 | And now, let me ask, whether we are prepared for these conditions? |
47289 | And on the question, Shall this bill pass? |
47289 | And on the question,"Shall the bill pass?" |
47289 | And on the question,"Shall this bill pass?" |
47289 | And on what, sir, does this circulation rest? |
47289 | And pray, Mr. Speaker, what has Mr. Foster been sent for? |
47289 | And shall we be told about the profitable commerce with Great Britain? |
47289 | And shall we disparage our ancestors?--shall we bastardize ourselves by placing them even below the brigands of St. Domingo? |
47289 | And shall we now refuse admission to the vessels of France? |
47289 | And surely he will not contend that this advance of premium was caused by the embargo? |
47289 | And that from mere obstinacy-- an obstinacy not encouraged by the least glimmering of hope? |
47289 | And that too, sir, at an expense to their own country so enormous in amount? |
47289 | And thus situated, what are the projects offered for replenishing the public coffers in future? |
47289 | And we may triumphantly ask, where is the nation or people that enjoy these with more freedom and safety than the American people? |
47289 | And were not French ships of war then, and have they not since been riding quietly at Annapolis, Norfolk, and elsewhere? |
47289 | And what advantage do they derive from it? |
47289 | And what are those objects? |
47289 | And what do we? |
47289 | And what do we? |
47289 | And what does he claim? |
47289 | And what does this committee do? |
47289 | And what has this sarcastic Minister of Great Britain given us in exchange? |
47289 | And what have we done in return? |
47289 | And what have we to propose, according to the principles of reprisal, to obtain the restoration? |
47289 | And what injury has the Emperor of Russia done to him? |
47289 | And what is it now? |
47289 | And what is its character? |
47289 | And what is our opinion? |
47289 | And what is the answer to all this out of doors? |
47289 | And what is the argument by which this position is maintained? |
47289 | And what is the language of George the Third, when our Minister presents to his consideration the embargo laws? |
47289 | And what is the relation in which you stand to France? |
47289 | And what is to justify this measure of imposing silence? |
47289 | And what more, sir, could have been asked of us, required, or granted, than is contained in these offers? |
47289 | And what real benefit has resulted from it to the Government? |
47289 | And what says Mr. Jackson in reply? |
47289 | And what security have we that she will not do so? |
47289 | And what substitute have we for this when it shall be destroyed? |
47289 | And what was the fact in regard to them? |
47289 | And what would you think of one individual who had thus conducted to another, and should then retreat? |
47289 | And what, Mr. Speaker, is now proposed for the future-- what is to retrieve our affairs-- on what are our hopes to rest? |
47289 | And what, sir, are you doing? |
47289 | And what, sir, was the conduct of the opposition in the British House of Commons, when their King and country were insulted by a foreign Minister? |
47289 | And when war came, what said the people? |
47289 | And where are these insults, these injuries, these vital attempts of the enemy to be found? |
47289 | And where do you send him? |
47289 | And whether we are prepared to go to war for them? |
47289 | And while these measures were going on, could Congress, by staying here constantly, add to the number of men, or expedite the loan? |
47289 | And who is prepared to say that American seamen shall be surrendered the victims to the British principle of impressment? |
47289 | And who would pay it? |
47289 | And whose money, asked Mr. R., is this? |
47289 | And why did they not? |
47289 | And why draw that into the debate on the impressment of American citizens from American vessels? |
47289 | And why should this bank be dissolved? |
47289 | And why should this clamor be raised on the question whether you will or will not make a formal renunciation of the old articles of political faith? |
47289 | And why should we make a sort of hotch- potch of two subjects, on which we do not think alike, for the purpose of getting us all united against both? |
47289 | And why was not a provision inserted to prevent foreigners from purchasing additional stock? |
47289 | And why? |
47289 | And will she be insensible to the efforts of our little Navy? |
47289 | And will you plunge yourselves in war, because you have passed a foolish and ruinous law, and are ashamed to repeal it? |
47289 | And will you refuse it? |
47289 | And with a standing army, what security for our liberties?" |
47289 | And would gentlemen favor this French population at the expense of their own interests and rights? |
47289 | And would he advise the nation to pursue a course disgraceful, and to which he would not expose himself? |
47289 | And would not the doing this place us in precisely the same situation as we were in before the Revolution? |
47289 | And would these persons believe that they were going on an unlawful expedition? |
47289 | And yet, how does this differ from invading Canada, for the purpose of defending our maritime rights? |
47289 | And yet, sir, who ever heard of two nations_ going to war_ about a single case of capture, though admitted not to be justified by the laws? |
47289 | And, I ask, is this resistance? |
47289 | And, I ask, sir, why, then, admit the vessels of England standing in the same relation to us? |
47289 | And, I wish to know, sir, what control we have over the Bank of the United States? |
47289 | And, after that, is it proposed that we shall continue the measure of hostility when the cause alone which led to it is completely done away? |
47289 | And, are we to endeavor to negotiate, as neutrals, with France, upon this ground, with any reasonable prospect of success? |
47289 | And, doing that, how could you expect an amicable result? |
47289 | And, is this course of policy now to be condemned, and regrets entered up that we have not been at war years ago? |
47289 | And, said Mr. O., shall the Government be less willing to discharge its just debts than an honest individual? |
47289 | And, shall I be charged with deserting the standard of the people, while I am treading in the footsteps of the great Father of his Country? |
47289 | And, sir, what does this bank or its branches when resort is had to it? |
47289 | And, sir, what is the mighty boon which these brave and indigent tars ask from you? |
47289 | And, sir, what is this principle? |
47289 | And, sir, what was our"restrictive"system? |
47289 | And, sir, when these messengers of hell are sent here shall we not look at them? |
47289 | And, upon whom does the loss fall? |
47289 | Are gentlemen aware how extensive is the province of master and apprentice? |
47289 | Are gentlemen ready to injure their country, weaken our Federal Union, the sheet- anchor of our political safety, to reach their political opponents? |
47289 | Are gentlemen serious? |
47289 | Are gentlemen willing to submit to this? |
47289 | Are gentlemen, possessing the feelings of Americans, prepared to submit to such degradation? |
47289 | Are new States desired? |
47289 | Are not these cases equally strong? |
47289 | Are not these searches and seizures, without warrant, on the mere suspicion of a collector, unreasonable searches and seizures? |
47289 | Are our Ocean rights there? |
47289 | Are the bounty lands to be given in Canada? |
47289 | Are the countries of the Baltic and Caspian Seas no longer cultivated? |
47289 | Are the extravagant prices of articles of the first necessity, superadded to their former embarrassments, to operate as a bounty on their trade? |
47289 | Are the gentlemen from Georgia and Kentucky the only Senators who have had their feelings wounded by the conduct of the press upon this subject? |
47289 | Are the merchants the guardians of the public honor? |
47289 | Are the merchants to be told we will protect their commerce? |
47289 | Are the old chimerical notions of_ starving_ the enemy, yet floating in the brains of gentlemen? |
47289 | Are the orders and decrees altered? |
47289 | Are the people of this country suspected of an intention to abandon their rights or their independence? |
47289 | Are the wishes of this nation to be unattended to? |
47289 | Are these apprehensions founded in reason, or are they the chimeras of a fervid and perturbed imagination? |
47289 | Are these blessings not worth preserving? |
47289 | Are these not sufficient for the recruiting service? |
47289 | Are these savings not worth notice? |
47289 | Are these the blockades which are intended? |
47289 | Are they likely to happen? |
47289 | Are they not murderers? |
47289 | Are they prepared to say the embargo shall be raised, while our commerce is subjected to this kind of depredation? |
47289 | Are they reduced to that situation, that they will become the vassals of a foreign power-- for what? |
47289 | Are they to be held as conquered territories? |
47289 | Are they to be scourged out of us by the birch of the unfledged political pedagogues of the day? |
47289 | Are they unfit for the East India trade? |
47289 | Are we bound to adopt this measure on account of the faith of Government being pledged to France by the law of May last? |
47289 | Are we guilty because we resist the British scalping knife? |
47289 | Are we in France? |
47289 | Are we not aware, sir, of the immense sums now invested and actively employed in the different manufactories distributed over our extensive country? |
47289 | Are we not officially notified that the French leeward islands are declared by proclamation in a state of blockade? |
47289 | Are we prepared to ingraft these arbitrary principles into our constitution, and cherish them when practised in so arbitrary a manner? |
47289 | Are we ready to submit to be taxed by Great Britain and France, as if we were their colonies? |
47289 | Are we sure the State banks can or will do this? |
47289 | Are we to adhere to the embargo forever, sir? |
47289 | Are we to renew negotiation, then, when every circumstance manifests that it would be useless? |
47289 | Are we to understand that the_ salus populi_ shall rule without control? |
47289 | Are we, gentlemen,( said Mr. R.,) to have a Speaker of the House of Representatives without any election? |
47289 | Are you prepared to see a foreign power seize what belongs to us? |
47289 | Are you provided with means to annoy the enemy, or to defend yourselves? |
47289 | Are you to leave them unprotected, or will you draw the sword in their behalf? |
47289 | Are you to spend four or five millions of dollars, in addition to your present extraordinary expenditures, to protect commerce? |
47289 | Are your exposed towns fortified and garrisoned? |
47289 | Are your seamen safe from impressment? |
47289 | Arm your merchantmen, as has been proposed, send them out, and you have war directly? |
47289 | As his Minister said to the King of Epirus,"may we not as well take our bottle of wine before as after this exploit?" |
47289 | As it does now, through the operation of your embargo, on the planter, on the farmer, on the mechanic, on the day- laborer? |
47289 | As the proper authority, he thrust it from him as unworthy the coffers of his country; and did not his doing so meet general approbation? |
47289 | As to France, sir, what were the edicts to be revoked, and how revoked? |
47289 | As to preparation at home, which is the only preparation contemplated to make, what or whom is it against? |
47289 | As to respect abroad, what course can be more certain to insure it? |
47289 | As to the objection which had been offered to receiving the statement of their commanders, what were gentlemen afraid of? |
47289 | As to the opportunity which the answers afforded for debate, could any one say that sufficient latitude had not been taken in debate? |
47289 | At the very moment, said Mr. B., that we know that the blacks of St. Domingo are building vessels, shall we dispose of Our public armed vessels? |
47289 | Aware of the impropriety of his deciding, he tells you-- what? |
47289 | Aye, sir-- and is that true? |
47289 | Because he is not a gentleman, shall we assert a falsehood? |
47289 | Because we can not guard against every possible danger, shall we provide against none? |
47289 | Because we can not, are we to succumb to others? |
47289 | Begin this system of abstract legislation, and where are you to stop? |
47289 | Being questioned if Henry had mentioned the names of any person with whom he had conferred? |
47289 | But I am asked, how will you contend with a maritime nation, without a navy? |
47289 | But I may ask, what on the ocean did we enjoy but by the sufferance of Great Britain? |
47289 | But I will suppose that you could export without interruption; would the whole of the exportable produce pay for the war during the continuance of it? |
47289 | But are not your privateers as much a part of the naval force of the nation as your ships of war? |
47289 | But are we unreasonable in expecting, before we give up the old opinion, to hear some argument in favor of the new one? |
47289 | But by whom had they been suppressed when they ran counter to the interests of his country? |
47289 | But can any man imagine that, if we invade the British colonies, the war will be there? |
47289 | But did an atom of it flow in from the operation of the embargo? |
47289 | But does that justify this resolution? |
47289 | But gentlemen were desirous now to fix the number of souls which should entitle to a Representative-- and why? |
47289 | But has he shown that it is necessary in order to make a preliminary arrangement similar to that entered into? |
47289 | But have the people of Spain acquiesced? |
47289 | But have they shown, by a train of argument, that their overthrow was, in any degree, ascribable to their maritime greatness? |
47289 | But how are we to cause these rights to be respected? |
47289 | But how can this be done? |
47289 | But how has this plea been supported? |
47289 | But how is this protection to be afforded? |
47289 | But how was it received by the American Cabinet? |
47289 | But how, Mr. Speaker, are we to cause our rights to be respected? |
47289 | But if it were not, where is the impropriety of an inquiry? |
47289 | But in this instance is the territory vacant-- or uninhabited-- or abandoned by its proprietors? |
47289 | But is it possible that an intolerant spirit of party has prepared us for this? |
47289 | But is it true that according to the usages of nations this is a novel system, or one now, for the first time, put in use by the British? |
47289 | But is that the case in relation to the Executive, on whose future dispositions rest the best interests of this nation? |
47289 | But is war the true remedy? |
47289 | But of what value would these provinces be to us, if they could be easily acquired? |
47289 | But on whose side has this intrigue been? |
47289 | But receiving all the sanctions of a law, and as such containing a rule of conduct in certain specified cases, what was the Executive to do? |
47289 | But shall we therefore abandon the ocean, yield our birthright, our goodly heritage, without a struggle? |
47289 | But should he, on great questions, be denied the privilege of speaking? |
47289 | But should we have been prepared by winter, the time to which gentlemen wished to have deferred the declaration of war? |
47289 | But some gentlemen affect a sympathy for the Canadians-- why, say they, will you make war on them? |
47289 | But suppose they do not; suppose they fail, and are captured in the attempt; what is that to us? |
47289 | But the question recurs, needful for what? |
47289 | But to what does this doctrine lead? |
47289 | But was there that fatal necessity; that command from Jove,"Ye fates fulfil it, and ye powers approve,"to erect corporations? |
47289 | But we are told that the enterprising merchant is deprived of an opportunity-- of what? |
47289 | But we must inquire, what is a just and necessary war? |
47289 | But were there not other decrees? |
47289 | But what are the reasons why it has not fully come up to the expectations of its supporters, as a measure of coercion? |
47289 | But what blow are you prepared to strike? |
47289 | But what can we do with four seventy- fours? |
47289 | But what does the correspondence referred to prove? |
47289 | But what has_ Revolutionary_ Spain done? |
47289 | But what have the British Government done on the subject? |
47289 | But what is here proposed? |
47289 | But what is the fact? |
47289 | But what is the law of nature and the dictate of wisdom, on this subject? |
47289 | But what is the nature of the defence which one of our large States may be supposed interested to obtain from the General Government? |
47289 | But what is the principle in contest between the two Governments? |
47289 | But what is their situation at present? |
47289 | But what is this law as modified by the practice of nations? |
47289 | But what obliges Congress to give credit at all? |
47289 | But what was left, as to her, for the surrender or repeal of which she had any anxiety? |
47289 | But what was the style in which gentlemen spoke at our last summer session, when the subject of approbation was then before us? |
47289 | But what will the merchants of Salem, and Boston, and New York, and Philadelphia, and Baltimore, the men of Marblehead and Cape Cod, say to this? |
47289 | But what, said Mr. C, has been the history of claims for four or five years past? |
47289 | But what, sir, is the price we have at length paid for the repeal? |
47289 | But whence, Mr. Chairman, proceeds this system of slander and abuse? |
47289 | But where is the difference between that and suffering yourself to be controlled by the arbitrary act of another nation? |
47289 | But while we are searching for the means of annoying the commerce of Britain, does it become us to overlook at this moment the condition of our own? |
47289 | But who was ever the friend of non- intercourse? |
47289 | But why is it necessary to know, on this occasion, whether the President did call for these powers or not? |
47289 | But why is it to be continued? |
47289 | But why this argument of despair? |
47289 | But why this change? |
47289 | But why, sir, are the injuries these nations have done contrasted, and those of the one made an apology for those of the other? |
47289 | But why, sir, should this House give an expression of approbation of the President? |
47289 | But will you trust your funds with an institution thus precarious, and whose solidity is distrusted even by its best friends? |
47289 | But"where, and what was this execrable shape-- if shape it may be called, which shape has none?" |
47289 | But, I ask, sir, if the State Governments do not possess this gigantic power? |
47289 | But, I would ask the gentleman from Connecticut, and the gentleman from Pennsylvania, also, if this be one of their abstract propositions? |
47289 | But, Is it necessary that a resolution containing it should be passed by this House? |
47289 | But, Mr. President, what is the real cause of those failures? |
47289 | But, Mr. Speaker, what was the fact? |
47289 | But, Mr. Speaker, wherefore change the term of enlistment, from five years, or during the war, to one year? |
47289 | But, are not the measures which have been adopted, submission? |
47289 | But, decide it either way, how is trading as far as we have ability, made less abject than not trading at all? |
47289 | But, for these things, we must stipulate an equivalent; and what can that be, but to unite in striking England from the list of independent nations? |
47289 | But, for what purpose are you to send them out? |
47289 | But, is it in this nation, and at this time, that it can be supposed that the profits of commerce are confined to the merchant? |
47289 | But, it seems we have changed all this-- we have perverted the whole course of procedure-- and why? |
47289 | But, it would be well to inquire, on what principle the belligerents pretend to justify these commercial restrictions? |
47289 | But, on the other hand, should we not be ready to act on that day, is it not pledging ourselves that we will then act, whether we are ready or not? |
47289 | But, on the second head, can your law be executed? |
47289 | But, said Mr. R., is time now so precious? |
47289 | But, said he, for what purpose, I feel impelled to ask, are you going to build these vessels? |
47289 | But, says the gentleman, will you take the child from the parent? |
47289 | But, since that election, another has taken place for members of Congress; and how has that turned out? |
47289 | But, sir, admit for a moment the bank may be formed to collect the revenue, ought it not to be exclusively used for that object? |
47289 | But, sir, admit the gentleman''s statement; will a war with Great Britain increase the danger? |
47289 | But, sir, can we quit this subject without looking more particularly at the consequences which result from this series of injuries? |
47289 | But, sir, gentlemen may ask, where is the remedy? |
47289 | But, sir, has this unparalleled enterprise, this gallant spirit, been carried on by a navy? |
47289 | But, sir, how happens it that we still remain under the distresses occasioned by the belligerents? |
47289 | But, sir, how have those orders at last been repealed? |
47289 | But, sir, is it prudent to rely upon an institution that may refuse you assistance? |
47289 | But, sir, let me ask what sort of possession? |
47289 | But, sir, let me ask, whether the disposition to lend be not as necessary a means towards accomplishing a loan as the ability? |
47289 | But, sir, let us admit the fact and the whole force of the argument, I ask whose is the fault? |
47289 | But, sir, what has been the state of the country since the declaration of war? |
47289 | But, sir, what is now the state of things? |
47289 | But, suppose they had been manned in other ways, were not privateers as useful in annoying the enemy as public ships? |
47289 | But, what are the principles more specifically asserted by Great Britain? |
47289 | But, what best consults the honor of a Republican Government? |
47289 | But, what have we done? |
47289 | But, what is that to us? |
47289 | But, what security did those ships afford? |
47289 | But, what was it sent there for? |
47289 | But, why, I pray you? |
47289 | By Mary Howitt, 38 Who Shall be Greatest? |
47289 | By a suitable instrument I reconvey or retrocede the estate called Louisiana to you as I now hold it, and as you held it; what passes to you? |
47289 | By force? |
47289 | By gentlemen who are for active offence? |
47289 | By granting them a right which nature has already given to them? |
47289 | By putting in force the non- importation law? |
47289 | By showing a physical disability in the country to avail itself of this force? |
47289 | By the law of''98, the President certainly could direct relative to the age and size of a recruit-- yet to whom did he apply? |
47289 | By what ligament, on what basis, on what possible foundation, does it rest? |
47289 | By what? |
47289 | By whom is it so called? |
47289 | By whom is this immense power wielded? |
47289 | By whom, would you listen to them, are they most keenly felt? |
47289 | By whom? |
47289 | Can England complain of our giving credit to a man with whom her first Secretary of State and the Governor General of Canada correspond? |
47289 | Can a violation of a solemn pledge confer an obligation which was only intended to be created on the complete fulfilment of that pledge? |
47289 | Can an agreement arising from the exercise of this power, supersede the right of exercising the power expressly delegated by the constitution itself? |
47289 | Can any man do this, and not realize that the destiny of the people inhabiting such a country is essentially maritime? |
47289 | Can any man tell what would be the consequence of war, in these times? |
47289 | Can any one doubt that our Cabinet meant that it should have this effect? |
47289 | Can any submission be more palpable, more"abject, more disgraceful?" |
47289 | Can any thing be more in direct subserviency to the views of the French Emperor? |
47289 | Can any thing be more obviously at variance with the spirit of the constitution and the first principles of civil liberty? |
47289 | Can any thing be more palpable than this? |
47289 | Can arming our merchant vessels, by resisting the whole navy of Great Britain, oppose force to force? |
47289 | Can it be any thing but the revolutions in Spain and Portugal? |
47289 | Can it be because Bonaparte has said he loves the Americans? |
47289 | Can it be conceived that all this could have been carried on, if General Miranda had not meant to conceal it from the Government? |
47289 | Can it be necessary gravely to answer these assertions? |
47289 | Can it then be said, that with treble the population, and in an offensive war, necessity requires the dangerous innovation? |
47289 | Can one million of militia be overpowered by thirty thousand regulars? |
47289 | Can such conduct be called American? |
47289 | Can such men pretend that peace is their object? |
47289 | Can that be true which gives the greatest violence to party animosity? |
47289 | Can that be true which, when the whole physical force of the country is needed, withdraws half of that force? |
47289 | Can that, then, be true in relation to war which would be reprobated in every other case? |
47289 | Can the Legislature give me a moral right to violate the Constitution of the United States, which I have sworn to support? |
47289 | Can the President be as well acquainted with the qualifications and abilities of officers in the militia as the Governors of the States? |
47289 | Can the fundamental principles of the constitution, rendering contracts sacred, be thus uprooted and destroyed? |
47289 | Can there be any necessity for this? |
47289 | Can they sell these lots, these brick houses, these canal shares? |
47289 | Can they touch no nerve in which Britons feel? |
47289 | Can they, or will they, prevent the march of an enemy''s forces through that territory into the United States? |
47289 | Can this be a desirable state of things? |
47289 | Can this be done? |
47289 | Can this ever be an alternative? |
47289 | Can this interdiction be defended on this ground? |
47289 | Can we do too much for this man? |
47289 | Can we wonder that it should be cherished by its master? |
47289 | Can you expect system and order unless you pay for it? |
47289 | Can you have economy when you go into market to bid for what you want? |
47289 | Can you punish them for not doing it? |
47289 | Can your law fail of producing more injury and loss to the United States, than benefit? |
47289 | Contending themselves for the right of naturalization, can the British Government deny it to others? |
47289 | Could America expect to starve this nation? |
47289 | Could Congress transfer to him legislative power, and authorize him to declare of how many members this body should consist? |
47289 | Could any man say that it was not proper that he should have it? |
47289 | Could any man say what would take place between this day and the third of March? |
47289 | Could it not demand prompt payment of the duties? |
47289 | Could not a single foreign frigate enter almost any of our harbors now and batter down our towns? |
47289 | Could not even a single gunboat sweep some of them? |
47289 | Could not the Territory of Columbia have been governed without erecting a single corporation in it? |
47289 | Could one be added to the catalogue? |
47289 | Could seven millions of people obtain glory by precipitating themselves upon half a million, and trampling them into the dust? |
47289 | Could that gentleman repose his head upon his pillow without returning thanks to God that he was descended from English parentage? |
47289 | Could they have chosen a more appropriate phraseology? |
47289 | Could this doctrine be asserted by any gentleman? |
47289 | Did Venice owe her decline, or fall, to her navy? |
47289 | Did a British gallery ever exhibit such a spectacle? |
47289 | Did ever one Government exhibit towards any people a more bloody and relentless spirit of rancor? |
47289 | Did he too oppose this proposition on the ground of resisting the belligerents or of making war with England? |
47289 | Did it arrest the promulgation, or has it abrogated the Orders in Council-- those orders which have given birth to a new era in commerce? |
47289 | Did it declare to how many Representatives each State should be entitled? |
47289 | Did it enter into the conception of the people when its principles were discussed? |
47289 | Did it follow that minor considerations should be placed out of view or yielded up entirely? |
47289 | Did it not interdict all trade with France under the most severe and heavy penalties? |
47289 | Did it prevent Mr. Jefferson from taking a war course? |
47289 | Did it prevent the unmanly attack upon the Chesapeake? |
47289 | Did it produce starvation in the West Indies? |
47289 | Did not the honor, the character, the independence of the country require of us to go back to our original neutral ground? |
47289 | Did not the late President, when he came into place, refuse to let such money come into the treasury in the case of the worthless Callender? |
47289 | Did not this bill completely come up to their wishes? |
47289 | Did our fathers either effect a change in her injurious policy or prevent a war by non- intercourse? |
47289 | Did that make no difference? |
47289 | Did the nation call it submission when it was enacted under General Washington? |
47289 | Do gentlemen believe it to be true? |
47289 | Do gentlemen consider harpooning a vessel to be like harpooning a whale, which has no men on board of it to take out the harpoon? |
47289 | Do gentlemen mean an abject acquiescence to those iniquitous decrees and Orders in Council? |
47289 | Do gentlemen of the"old school"undertake to say that the Father of their country submitted then to George III.? |
47289 | Do gentlemen plead the necessity of the case? |
47289 | Do gentlemen say that there is no insult in this? |
47289 | Do gentlemen suppose that boats can approach without the most imminent danger? |
47289 | Do not gentlemen perceive the tendency of this measure to involve us with the States upon delicate points? |
47289 | Do the wrongs of this nation end with this outrage? |
47289 | Do these gentlemen come forward and tell you that that the embargo is submission? |
47289 | Do these two declarations hang together, sir? |
47289 | Do they contend that the causes which rendered it necessary have been removed? |
47289 | Do they mean that it should be relinquished to our former masters without a struggle? |
47289 | Do they not bear a hostile aspect? |
47289 | Do we doubt the inveteracy of the French hatred of the British navy when it has existed so many years? |
47289 | Do we not pay an annual tribute to Algiers for liberty to navigate the sea safer from its corsairs? |
47289 | Do we want plunder? |
47289 | Do you intend again to stretch them on the rack, again to cover the country with sackcloth and ashes? |
47289 | Do you make this declaration to the enemy at the outset? |
47289 | Do you mean to submit? |
47289 | Do you persevere in the conquest of Canada? |
47289 | Do you see one gentleman, one solitary gentleman of one party, discriminated generally as a Federal, who does not vote for this measure throughout? |
47289 | Do you yet contend that the object is to protect commerce? |
47289 | Does France purchase your tobacco or cotton, which heretofore have found a market there? |
47289 | Does a necessity exist superior to the laws? |
47289 | Does a proffer of settlement, connected with such language, look like a disposition or an intention to conciliate? |
47289 | Does an unprotected seacoast of two thousand miles afford her no opportunities of attacking us? |
47289 | Does any gentlemen believe, even allowing the pressure of the embargo to be great upon her, that she can yield, that she can afford to yield? |
47289 | Does any man believe it? |
47289 | Does any man believe that this frontier traffic is not as beneficial to us as to our enemies? |
47289 | Does any man doubt that the war is justly undertaken? |
47289 | Does he believe he has all this time been deceiving the Legislature? |
47289 | Does he discharge as he ought the duties of a friend, a brother in society? |
47289 | Does he recollect the invasion of the Spaniards two years ago? |
47289 | Does it comport with our honor and dignity to admit into our ports and harbors the very vessels destroying our commerce? |
47289 | Does it fall within the power to pay the debts of the United States? |
47289 | Does it follow, from that, that they are entitled to all the rights of hospitality that one nation could possibly show to another? |
47289 | Does it follow, in all cases, that that which would have prevented the war in the first instance should terminate the war? |
47289 | Does it not confine the legality of arming to resident citizens alone? |
47289 | Does it not go, not only to the abandonment of the ocean, but to the seacoast also? |
47289 | Does it not then result, inevitably, as the dictate of common prudence, that we should, as soon as possible, commence our naval preparations? |
47289 | Does it, then, become the representatives of the nation to leave the nation at the mercy of a corporation? |
47289 | Does not England naturalize foreigners? |
47289 | Does not flour find a great proportion of its consumption on the continent? |
47289 | Does not the constitution say, no laws shall be passed abrogating contracts? |
47289 | Does not the industry of the country languish? |
47289 | Does not the right to create a bank, which shall issue this representative of money, come within the same reason? |
47289 | Does not this prove that so much danger existed on the ocean that it was next to impossible to pass without seizure and condemnation? |
47289 | Does she not naturalize your citizens? |
47289 | Does she produce them at home? |
47289 | Does the bank affect the people locally? |
47289 | Does the gentleman mean to assimilate a tribute exacted by Great Britain with that paid to Algiers? |
47289 | Does the gentleman mean to excite our fears for the loss of our property? |
47289 | Does the gentleman say that it was atrocious in 1798 to defend ourselves against the French? |
47289 | Does the history of the past in our own, or any other country, warrant such an expectation? |
47289 | Does the prospect of security there flatter us? |
47289 | Does this prove a change? |
47289 | Does this prove that the embargo was the cause of the change of the politics of the Maryland Legislature? |
47289 | Does this, sir, comport with the principles of justice? |
47289 | Does your flag float afterwards in honor? |
47289 | Even if the price was as low as eight, or say seven dollars, wherefore should the soldier receive less than any other man? |
47289 | First, has the United States a claim, either real or disputed, to this territory? |
47289 | For I would ask, what are we to promise to ourselves from such a system as this; what will be the probable effects of it? |
47289 | For a private, unassisted, insulated, unallied individual? |
47289 | For any great boon that this Government has received from the hands of Great Britain? |
47289 | For gallons will you spill torrents; or am I to understand that we shall have war without bloodshed? |
47289 | For what have you given money to build fortifications? |
47289 | For what purpose were protections given to American seamen? |
47289 | For what purpose, sir, let me ask, have we adopted the resolution preceding this? |
47289 | For what purpose, then, could they be wanted? |
47289 | For what reason are we to subject even our coasters to plunder and abuse? |
47289 | For what was he contending? |
47289 | For what was the object of the opposition in this debate? |
47289 | For what, sir, are we assembled here under a constitution the purest in the world? |
47289 | For whose benefit, sir, is the Government to strip itself of this right, so essential for the due administration of its finances? |
47289 | For why? |
47289 | Forty thousand? |
47289 | From these principles what desertions have we not witnessed? |
47289 | From whence was this conclusion drawn? |
47289 | From which decision Mr. RANDOLPH moved an appeal; which being seconded, the question was put,"Is the decision of the Chair correct?" |
47289 | From which of these stations, said Mr. C., could she have spared, with safety and prudence, a portion of the force employed? |
47289 | GOLD.--The first object with a wise Legislature is, Is the law expedient? |
47289 | Gentlemen ask, has there not been a satisfactory adjustment of our differences with Great Britain? |
47289 | Gentlemen get up and abuse the Spanish Government and people, and what then? |
47289 | Good heavens, between what, Mr. Speaker? |
47289 | Ground their arms and surrender themselves prisoners of war; or are they, sir, to drop their muskets and take to their heels? |
47289 | Had Congress that power? |
47289 | Had he done it? |
47289 | Had it not been more injurious to the United States than to foreign nations? |
47289 | Had not a special court been refused in relation to a property of much greater value than this? |
47289 | Had not gentlemen even called others by name, and introduced every subject on any question? |
47289 | Had not the Navy of Great Britain a beginning? |
47289 | Had the decrees been so modified, under present circumstances, as that they had ceased to violate our neutral commerce? |
47289 | Had the interdiction been confined to British vessels by this law, what would Great Britain have said to this discrimination? |
47289 | Had they not amply redressed the insult of the individual? |
47289 | Had they not had them in other countries? |
47289 | Had we, when all the rest of Louisiana was surrendered to us, obtained possession of Florida? |
47289 | Has France herself agreed to bury her surplus breadstuffs in the earth? |
47289 | Has Great Britain held out the hand of friendship, and have we refused to meet her? |
47289 | Has a picaroon or a buccaneer ever been chastised by them? |
47289 | Has any capitalist said he would venture out in the present tempest which blackens the ocean? |
47289 | Has any malediction of Heaven doomed them to perpetual vassalage? |
47289 | Has it come to this? |
47289 | Has it occurred? |
47289 | Has it operated upon the present Executive? |
47289 | Has it operated, to any perceptible extent, except upon ourselves, during the twelvemonth it has been in existence? |
47289 | Has it released from galling and ignominious bondage one solitary American seaman, bleeding under British oppression? |
47289 | Has not Congress solemnly pledged itself to the world not to surrender our rights? |
47289 | Has not Great Britain driven them all from the ocean? |
47289 | Has not our country increased in wealth and population, in a superior degree to any country on earth? |
47289 | Has not the British army increased with equal pace with her navy? |
47289 | Has not the United States''Bank produced serious alarm? |
47289 | Has not, in fact, the gallant Captain Decatur taken our own seamen out of one of them? |
47289 | Has our hospitality been violated and our officers insulted in our very ports by the vessels of France? |
47289 | Has she not seized every vessel which has arrived at her ports since that period? |
47289 | Has she withdrawn her Orders in Council, and have we insisted on a continuance of our commercial restrictions? |
47289 | Has the Nile ceased to fructify the fields of Egypt? |
47289 | Has the President acted correctly or not? |
47289 | Has the President given any such information? |
47289 | Has the embargo answered? |
47289 | Has the experiment been tried? |
47289 | Has the love of gain superseded every other motive in the breasts of Americans? |
47289 | Has the navy of Russia protected her commerce? |
47289 | Has there been any thing of the kind on our part? |
47289 | Have Sicily and the Barbary coasts returned to a barren state of nature? |
47289 | Have either complied? |
47289 | Have gentlemen reflected on the disastrous consequences of such a system at the present time? |
47289 | Have our citizens been restored to their country? |
47289 | Have they attempted even to show that there exists in the nature of this power a necessary tendency to destroy the nation using it? |
47289 | Have they been committed within our waters? |
47289 | Have they brought forward the mass of their voters as signers to petitions? |
47289 | Have they disturbed the quiet of either House? |
47289 | Have they ever refused supplies because a war was unpopular, since their revolution? |
47289 | Have they not considered it a delicate one? |
47289 | Have they not done so in Baltimore? |
47289 | Have they not in their conduct given us the most sound and wholesome advice on the subject? |
47289 | Have they not more troops on and near the line than we have? |
47289 | Have they not told you, continually, to let them alone; that they knew their own business best? |
47289 | Have they taken a single man out of a ship of war, or one man out of the dungeons of Paris or Arras? |
47289 | Have this Government, and the people of this country, no interest in the prosperity of these manufactories? |
47289 | Have those causes wrought on her a perseverance in her measures? |
47289 | Have those certificates, or protections, as they are commonly called, been confined to_ bona fide_ American citizens? |
47289 | Have those contingencies happened? |
47289 | Have we any French frigates now in our seas? |
47289 | Have we any other evidence of the disposition of the Executive in relation to this bill than that certain gentlemen are in favor of it? |
47289 | Have we constitutional authority to legislate on this subject, and is it expedient so to do? |
47289 | Have we done nothing? |
47289 | Have we done this, as respects Great Britain? |
47289 | Have we from the effects of their trial any lively hope of success in our present attempt? |
47289 | Have we gone to insurance companies or corporations of one kind or another? |
47289 | Have we indeed received no answer? |
47289 | Have we intrigued with the people to induce them to take sides with us? |
47289 | Have we made an impression on the Prince Regent and his Ministry? |
47289 | Have we no country of our own? |
47289 | Have we not already territory enough? |
47289 | Have we not an undoubted right to navigate the Mediterranean? |
47289 | Have we not conclusive evidence to the contrary? |
47289 | Have we not, moreover, the best recorded proof that the present President holds similar opinions on this subject? |
47289 | Have we obtained the objects for which it was commenced? |
47289 | Have we opened our ports to her traders? |
47289 | Have we renewed commercial intercourse with her? |
47289 | Have we stirred up the people into town meetings to aid us by memorials? |
47289 | Have you an army or navy which can make any impression? |
47289 | Have you any thing to hope, by operating upon the minds of the rulers of that nation, a conviction that you are boasting no longer? |
47289 | Have you ever heard of an army on earth that was carried into the field before it had been seasoned in the camp? |
47289 | Have you not as good a right to do that as to pass this law? |
47289 | Have you the least prospect, if you declare war, of attacking Canada this season? |
47289 | He asked if we were prepared to violate the public faith? |
47289 | He asked what will be the situation of this people in sixty days? |
47289 | He asked whether we were prepared to assail our enemy, or repel her attacks? |
47289 | He asked, how efficient could that species of force be, of which the Chief Magistrate did not think it worth while to have a record kept? |
47289 | He asked, what security had the United States, if they did all this, if they submitted to such abject humiliation, that Great Britain would treat? |
47289 | He asked, whether it is wise in an unarmed nation, as we are, to commence hostilities against one so completely prepared? |
47289 | He asked, why rush with this precipitancy into the war? |
47289 | He demanded what there is in the nature and construction of maritime power to excite the fears that have been indulged? |
47289 | He had satisfied his mind that they had engaged in this business unknowingly and unwillingly-- and, what was now asked of the Government? |
47289 | He said, there were two parties in this House; and asked, is it ever known how a question will be decided, until it is taken? |
47289 | He sees the danger clearly? |
47289 | He supposes a sally from a Spanish garrison upon the American forces, and asks what is to be done? |
47289 | He sympathized with the sufferings of his impressed and incarcerated fellow- citizens; but would a territorial war exempt them from impressment? |
47289 | He was asked if any essential alterations would be made within sixty days, in the defence of our maritime frontier or seaports? |
47289 | He wished to know, in point of principle, what difference gentlemen could point out between the abandonment of this or of that maritime right? |
47289 | He would ask that gentleman if he was, during the last embargo, a ship owner? |
47289 | He would, for instance, ask whether so much as related to sacked towns, bombarded cities, ruined commerce, and revolting blacks, had been realized? |
47289 | How abstract, I pray you? |
47289 | How are these orders and decrees to be opposed but by war, except we keep without their reach? |
47289 | How are these pacific advances met by the other party? |
47289 | How are they to be supplied with the article of salt? |
47289 | How are we to get things right? |
47289 | How can we get rid of the war, if we may not say that it is inexpedient, impolitic, and ruinous? |
47289 | How can we make a sacrifice of our own opinions? |
47289 | How comes he in the ranks against us, with his tomahawk and scalping knife? |
47289 | How could one committee properly attend to the mass of business before the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures? |
47289 | How could they be made one with the United States unless by the use of the same language? |
47289 | How did this happen? |
47289 | How distressed? |
47289 | How had it turned out? |
47289 | How had this indisposition for war got into the House? |
47289 | How happens all this? |
47289 | How has it been applied? |
47289 | How has the President performed this constitutional duty? |
47289 | How has this prediction been verified? |
47289 | How is he to know that they have expressed their sense of his conduct from proper motives? |
47289 | How is it now? |
47289 | How is it submission, then, to these orders for us to trade to Gottenburg, when neither France nor Britain command, nor prohibit it? |
47289 | How is our faith plighted? |
47289 | How is our honor affected by removing it? |
47289 | How is that to be done? |
47289 | How many were unable to apply? |
47289 | How shall the law be repealed? |
47289 | How shall we best do it? |
47289 | How stand the people of the British Empire? |
47289 | How then can any encouragement be drawn from that precedent, to support us under the privations of the present system of commercial suspension? |
47289 | How then can we trust to the future predictions of gentlemen? |
47289 | How then has it happened that Congress has taken upon itself the right to erect light- houses, under their general power to regulate commerce? |
47289 | How was it in the conspiracy of Blount and Liston? |
47289 | How wide- spread the relation in the community? |
47289 | How, I ask, could the President act a different part, from the evidence in the case? |
47289 | How, let me ask you, sir, is your Government constituted? |
47289 | How, sir, can I make this matter plainer? |
47289 | How, sir, is it with the State banks? |
47289 | How, then, could the gentleman, after his admissions, with the facts before him and the nation, complain? |
47289 | How, then, is the national faith plighted to France by that law? |
47289 | How, then, sir, are we to account for their late conduct? |
47289 | I ask gentlemen, if her ability to carry on a distant war by land or sea, has diminished? |
47289 | I ask him whether he considers the impressment of American seamen"a violation of an essential right of this country?" |
47289 | I ask if it is necessary? |
47289 | I ask the gentlemen on the other side of the House, whether we have not gained something in this respect by the war? |
47289 | I ask then what physical ability we have to discharge the State taxes, or any other? |
47289 | I ask this House and this nation, whether their hopes or wishes extend beyond what we then enjoyed? |
47289 | I ask whether, under such circumstances, the question ought not to be considered settled? |
47289 | I ask you, sir, where is the strength of which these nations formerly boasted? |
47289 | I ask you, then, sir, why do we hesitate? |
47289 | I ask, did any nation ever do more? |
47289 | I ask, now, whether the impression made by the gentleman from New York was a just one? |
47289 | I beg to be excused for asking him( for I know he scorns submission as much as any man) if submission will pay the public debt? |
47289 | I have been asked, shall Congress rise and do nothing? |
47289 | I have no idea of laughing the subject out of the House; but how can gentlemen see the least probability of success in the invention? |
47289 | I know, sir, that there are men who condemn the conduct of the President in issuing the proclamation; and why? |
47289 | I make the appeal to gentlemen, I demand of the chairman of the committee who reported this bill, why and wherefore it is presented? |
47289 | I might trace the scheme a little further back, and ask, whence the outrages? |
47289 | I now solemnly appeal to gentlemen, why shall we, at this moment, make this marked distinction? |
47289 | I pray you, was not that the condition of the country when Mr. Rose arrived? |
47289 | I request gentlemen to reflect, whether this is not, in point of fact, an abandonment of the other points in dispute? |
47289 | I say, perish the heart, the head and the tongue, that will attempt her justification or apology? |
47289 | I shall, however, examine the non- intercourse system from the date of the law of March, 1809, and inquire what was its professed object? |
47289 | I will admit, sir, that this is not the time or place to institute the general inquiry, whether banks are or are not beneficial to a nation? |
47289 | I will ask how many regiments you have in your present establishment? |
47289 | I will ask the gentleman from South Carolina, what has the nation benefited for this enormous expenditure? |
47289 | I will ask the honorable gentleman from Maryland whether he does not know that letters have been written for that purpose? |
47289 | I will ask, how we succeeded in the Revolutionary war? |
47289 | I will ask, in return, when an officer is appointed to collect the customs, has he not a salary and emoluments? |
47289 | I will ask, what would be the case if such laws had not been passed by the States? |
47289 | I will now proceed, Mr. President, to inquire whether the facts stated in the resolution are supported by the correspondence upon which it is founded? |
47289 | I will put this question to gentlemen: what has Britain done which would require a discrimination as to her public vessels? |
47289 | I wish to know of gentlemen, whether trading with the belligerents, under their present restrictions on commerce, would not be submission? |
47289 | I would ask, how can it be contended to the contrary? |
47289 | I would ask, in a few words, if we ought to continue this establishment in its present state? |
47289 | If B refuses, does A, under the circumstances of such a declaration, violate any obligation, should he refuse to permit the passage? |
47289 | If France has revoked her decrees, is not a non- importation with Great Britain inevitable, and does it not exist? |
47289 | If France revoked her decrees, she was entitled to a non- importation against Great Britain, and if she failed to revoke, what? |
47289 | If a gentleman from Baltimore gives his agent instructions to provide every thing necessary for an East India voyage, what would he expect? |
47289 | If a man submits, of what use are calculations of money, for it may be drawn from him at the pleasure of his master? |
47289 | If done, has it been so done as to amount to an honorable fulfilment or acceptance of our terms? |
47289 | If gentlemen will have it that this is the accepted time for war, how has it happened that we have not had it before? |
47289 | If he did not feel perfectly comfortable in a cold day, should he therefore divest himself of all clothing? |
47289 | If he wished to promote division, how could he better attain his object than by denouncing the people of a particular section? |
47289 | If her Legislature possess it not, can they give it to a Senator? |
47289 | If it is possible to operate on France by commercial restrictions, let me ask if this bill will not accomplish that object? |
47289 | If it was indispensably necessary a day or two ago to provide a revenue, what had since occurred obviating that necessity? |
47289 | If it was not to have influence, why thus evade a decision on the prayer of the petitioner? |
47289 | If it would, to what amount? |
47289 | If justice be not already established in our country, can there be any probability that a more formidable army will effect an object so desirable? |
47289 | If not, then what is meant by this grant to take the property of your constituents, and leave them no remedy for the injury? |
47289 | If obligations of friendship do exist, why does Great Britain rend those ties asunder, and open the bleeding wounds of former conflicts? |
47289 | If obtained, will it accomplish the end proposed? |
47289 | If on such a question the House was to be governed by individual interests, what was the nation to expect from them? |
47289 | If our Government takes away our liberty, is it necessary to contend with a foreign Government for our rights? |
47289 | If our towns could not be defended by fortifications, he asked, would ten frigates defend them? |
47289 | If provision was made for trying this case, must it not be extended to all others? |
47289 | If she can turn our vessels into her ports to pay duty and take out license, what prohibits us from doing the same as to her vessels? |
47289 | If she has it not, can she give it to her Legislature? |
47289 | If so, did he not go to England during the embargo? |
47289 | If so, how can we rely on them against a foe invading our country? |
47289 | If so, how did he go? |
47289 | If so, what will be the effect on the articles of cession and agreement between you and Georgia? |
47289 | If so, why not give the same credence to the letters of the Duke of Massa and the Duc de Gaete? |
47289 | If so, why not unite against the one as well as against the other? |
47289 | If so, would not a fleet secure us from attack also? |
47289 | If such doctrine is to be admitted, when should we have had a moment''s peace? |
47289 | If the alleged principle of retaliation be not the true one, what is? |
47289 | If the article of the constitution, however, did not mean that Congress might take States out of new Territories, what did it mean? |
47289 | If the decree existed in April, 1811, why was it not communicated to this nation, the only one interested in the subject? |
47289 | If the present establishment is not full, what is the reason? |
47289 | If the right to land be indefeasible, could the Government run a road through it? |
47289 | If their existence had been known at the time, would the President in his message recommending an embargo have failed to notice the fact? |
47289 | If then assistance should be offered on the part of the constitutionalists, what is your army to do? |
47289 | If this law were passed, Mr. W. asked, was it perfect? |
47289 | If this law were to pass, could the Secretary of State be authorized to declare the number of Representatives to which each State was entitled? |
47289 | If this principle, then, be equally urged by both, who is to judge between them? |
47289 | If this was the fact, as the committee appear to have believed, I ask, in what their case differs from that of men taken captives by the Algerines? |
47289 | If this were not her object, why such a continued system of illegitimate blockades? |
47289 | If we are to have war, with whom is it to be prosecuted-- not in terms I mean, but in fact? |
47289 | If you did not at once return blow for blow, and injury for injury, would you not at least take a little time to consider? |
47289 | If you mean war, if the spirit of the country is up to it, why have you been spending five months in idle debate? |
47289 | If you settled at all, might you not consider it your duty in some way to make him feel the consequences of his strange intemperance of passion? |
47289 | If your citizens are united, you can capture Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick; when you have effected this, what remains next to be done? |
47289 | If, as some gentlemen say, it is a precursor to war, there were some very serious questions to be asked-- What is the situation of our fortresses? |
47289 | If, at so early a period, the right of search for men was objected to by this Government, how much more forcible is the objection now? |
47289 | If, said Mr. C, we are not able to meet the wolves of the forest, shall we put up with the barking of every petty fox that trips across our way? |
47289 | If, sir, the sufferers under the sedition law did suffer contrary to the constitution, ought not their expenses to be reimbursed? |
47289 | If, then, it be inexpedient to make this discrimination against Great Britain, how is it less so, when directed against France? |
47289 | If, then, while creating a public debt, we neglect to provide the means of payment, what will be the consequence? |
47289 | In a word, is resistance submission? |
47289 | In a year from the time of enlistment their term expires, and what becomes of your conquest, without force to keep it, supposing it to be made? |
47289 | In bank bills, the credit of which is at least doubtful? |
47289 | In despite of experience, do they yet believe that our blessed country_ alone_ can produce food for the world? |
47289 | In other words, why the number of officers should now be fixed agreeably to the act of April 21, 1806, rather than that of the 3d of March, 1801? |
47289 | In peace we require no defence, and shall we declare war in order to defend ourselves? |
47289 | In performance of their lofty promises, in disregard of sacred duties, what have they done? |
47289 | In point of revenue how does it work? |
47289 | In relation to negotiating with measures of coercion in existence, Mr. N. asked, when did the violations of our rights commence? |
47289 | In spite of all its boasted effects, are not the two nations brought to the very brink of war? |
47289 | In such case, what will you do? |
47289 | In such case, would staying at home, and refusing any more to go upon the sea, be an exercise of independence in the citizens of New York? |
47289 | In the Revolutionary war how did England stand-- how her islands? |
47289 | In the commencement of this inquiry, Mr. Chairman, we naturally ask ourselves, what edicts are to be revoked, and how are they to be revoked? |
47289 | In the days of terror, we shrunk at standing armies; and what is the object now-- defence? |
47289 | In the intermediate period, what aspect does a Union, thus destitute of cement, present? |
47289 | In the name of God, Mr. Speaker, what grounds had he for this presumption? |
47289 | In the name of common sense, how can this be true? |
47289 | In this view can you be prepared for war at the expiration of the embargo? |
47289 | In this way, I grant, our conduct may be impartial; but what has become of our American rights to navigate the ocean? |
47289 | In what are these ten millions of dollars to be collected? |
47289 | In what condition do they leave the country, which, eight years since,"in the full tide of successful experiment,"fell into their hands? |
47289 | In what do they differ, to their advantage from other felons? |
47289 | In what does it consist? |
47289 | In what does your export to that region consist? |
47289 | In what mode, or by what_ means_ are they to be effected? |
47289 | In what respect, then, are they to be compared to Aaron Burr? |
47289 | In what school had these illustrious men formed those noble principles of civil liberty asserted by their eloquence and maintained by their arms? |
47289 | In what situation would she have stood in relation to the United States? |
47289 | In what situation would you then place some of the best men of the nation? |
47289 | In what way are we bound again to launch our country into this dark sea of restriction; surrounded on all sides with perils and penalties? |
47289 | In what way will the public coffers be filled? |
47289 | In what will this Government consist? |
47289 | Indeed, sir, and in what respect is it entitled to this definition of self- evident? |
47289 | Independently of the obvious propriety of this proceeding in itself, have we, sir, no examples of the course of conduct recommended by the resolution? |
47289 | Is Canada so far conquered that you can now reduce the term of enlistment? |
47289 | Is Great Britain less powerful now, than she was twenty years ago? |
47289 | Is Napoleon our king? |
47289 | Is a question of construction never to be at rest? |
47289 | Is all this trade of no importance to trading people? |
47289 | Is another brood of"restrictive"harpies, more unseemly and more hungry than their predecessors, to be let loose among them? |
47289 | Is any advantage to be derived from complaining of this? |
47289 | Is any disposition evidenced to omit tearing them from their homes and families in future? |
47289 | Is any gentleman prepared to say a smaller penalty will effect the object? |
47289 | Is commerce to be protected by abridging the natural rights of the people? |
47289 | Is he a man of truth? |
47289 | Is it a fact, that greater injuries exist from France than from Great Britain? |
47289 | Is it a land force? |
47289 | Is it a restoration of French property seized under the law of non- intercourse? |
47289 | Is it a want of capacity? |
47289 | Is it admitted that the British fleet secures her from attack? |
47289 | Is it an enjoyment of our rights, or a direct, full submission? |
47289 | Is it because the British officers impress from our vessels others besides natives? |
47289 | Is it because you have power on your side, sir, that you will not submit to a judicial decision of this question? |
47289 | Is it by merely reviving the law of May last, as is the object of this amendment? |
47289 | Is it calculated to produce this effect? |
47289 | Is it come to this, that a law constitutionally enacted, even after a formal decision in favor of its constitutionality, can not be enforced? |
47289 | Is it denied that the Government can take property from an individual, making him compensation therefor? |
47289 | Is it equal and exact justice to those two nations? |
47289 | Is it extinct? |
47289 | Is it for the benefit of the great mass of the American people? |
47289 | Is it for the honor of the nation to remove the embargo, without taking any other measure, and to bear with every indignity? |
47289 | Is it for the honor or happiness of this nation that we should again pass under the yoke of Great Britain? |
47289 | Is it from his past treatment of us? |
47289 | Is it from the correspondence in the genius of the two governments? |
47289 | Is it indeed guilty to defend our country? |
47289 | Is it lost to this nation? |
47289 | Is it necessary as a measure of self- defence, as the only mode of resistance which will bring England to terms? |
47289 | Is it necessary for me at this time of day to make a declaration of the principles of the Republican party? |
47289 | Is it necessary for me to allude to the reduction of the Army-- to say by whom it was made? |
47289 | Is it necessary for me to descant upon the topics of difference which then separated the two great parties in the Government? |
47289 | Is it necessary to show that the right which was exclusive during the patent, is now the common right of all? |
47289 | Is it not a convenient agent for paying and receiving money? |
47289 | Is it not a spirit of war? |
47289 | Is it not admitted that we may lawfully exclude or admit the vessels of both belligerents? |
47289 | Is it not an abandonment of those rights to which we are entitled? |
47289 | Is it not an exclusive privilege secured to the stockholders of this bank? |
47289 | Is it not for the purpose of promoting"the general welfare"of the nation which we represent? |
47289 | Is it not important that the men who live on the seaboard should know that we have a force to repel attack? |
47289 | Is it not known that all the surplus product of the agriculture of this country finds its vent on the Continent of Europe? |
47289 | Is it not known that, of the whole of our tobacco, seven out of eight parts are consumed on the continent? |
47289 | Is it not obvious that England will not comply with her part of the condition, and that the Emperor never expected that she would? |
47289 | Is it not obvious, from the very terms of the letter, that it contains a condition that the repeal is a qualified one? |
47289 | Is it not presumable that the President would choose to have some communication with our Ministers abroad before the meeting of Congress? |
47289 | Is it not rewarding the perfidy of the one at the expense of the other, and at the expense of ourselves? |
47289 | Is it not surprising, then, that we are called upon to give him the approbation of this House? |
47289 | Is it not then our duty, as guardians of the public interest, to provide this powerful, this necessary means of defence? |
47289 | Is it not these acts which have shut us out from a market? |
47289 | Is it nothing to us to extinguish the torch that lights up savage warfare? |
47289 | Is it on similarity of language? |
47289 | Is it on the ocean that the impression is to be made? |
47289 | Is it possible such doctrine should be advocated on the floor of Congress? |
47289 | Is it possible that such a declaration could be deemed orthodox when proceeding from lips so unholy as those of an excommunicant from that church? |
47289 | Is it possible that this Government will sanction such arbitrary practices? |
47289 | Is it pretended to enter into any stipulations with Great Britain as to our conduct? |
47289 | Is it right to take from one part of the community ten millions of dollars and put it into the hands of another part? |
47289 | Is it so believed by the Administration? |
47289 | Is it that of a nation keen to discern, and strong to resist, violations of its sovereignty? |
47289 | Is it to be imagined that a power so vast would have been left by the wisdom of the constitution to doubtful inference? |
47289 | Is it to be supposed that the people of the United States will agree to this? |
47289 | Is it to our advantage to be excluded from the trade of the continent? |
47289 | Is it to secure the independence of the people, to suffer a foreign nation to impose upon them any terms which it thinks proper? |
47289 | Is it to tell us she never will redress our wrongs; or is it to divert us from a prosecution of our rights? |
47289 | Is it to the interest of the Administration that these abuses should continue, and that loans and taxes should be resorted to to cover them? |
47289 | Is it to walk about this earth, to breathe this air, and to partake the common blessings of God''s providence? |
47289 | Is it unjust to continue the war, till this demand is complied with? |
47289 | Is it want of pecuniary or want of physical capacity? |
47289 | Is it, that we have suffered the non- intercourse law to expire? |
47289 | Is it_ Le Roi s''avisera_? |
47289 | Is no respect due to the opinions of our predecessors? |
47289 | Is not a bank a proper place for the deposit and safe- keeping of money-- more so than the custom- house? |
47289 | Is not every office in law called a franchise or a particular privilege? |
47289 | Is not the authority of the marshals competent to the execution of the laws? |
47289 | Is not the course a just and necessary one? |
47289 | Is not the income of every man impaired? |
47289 | Is not the war- worn soldier calling on us every day with his demands? |
47289 | Is not this a consideration that ought to be taken into account? |
47289 | Is not this feature modelled after the feature in the Government of England? |
47289 | Is not this proof that the merchants did not consider the risk very great? |
47289 | Is not this sufficient to induce us to take away from Governors this prerogative? |
47289 | Is not, then, the exemption from these liabilities an important immunity? |
47289 | Is such an act calculated to induce the belief that the embargo operates as a bounty on British trade? |
47289 | Is that a consideration to have no weight upon such a question as this? |
47289 | Is that a fact? |
47289 | Is that a mere idle discussion? |
47289 | Is the Administration for negotiation? |
47289 | Is the American nation ready to bow the neck? |
47289 | Is the Executive to infer from the proviso that something exists in the law which the friends of the proviso declare does not exist? |
47289 | Is the Secretary of the President of the United States knocking at the door for admittance? |
47289 | Is the South of easier access than the North, and is the circle of hostility to be extended to that quarter? |
47289 | Is the embargo submission? |
47289 | Is the enemy at the gate? |
47289 | Is the gentleman who represents that district( Mr. SEYBERT) willing that they shall absolve themselves from their contract by enlisting in the Army? |
47289 | Is the gentleman willing to surrender the carrying trade to Great Britain? |
47289 | Is the last effort to preserve the peace of the nation, to be abandoned from these considerations? |
47289 | Is the minority thus to be dragooned into this measure? |
47289 | Is the new and before unheard- of system of blockade abandoned? |
47289 | Is the object of this bill to promote science or the useful arts? |
47289 | Is the power to create this paper medium, or national currency, an attribute of State or national sovereignty? |
47289 | Is the removal of the non- importation act, and the admission of British vessels, nothing? |
47289 | Is then a refraining from so doing, submission? |
47289 | Is there a land upon the globe so fair, so happy, and so free? |
47289 | Is there a man who hears us who has not experienced its utility? |
47289 | Is there any liberty left among the people of France, or of those countries that France has conquered? |
47289 | Is there any limitation to the law on the statute book? |
47289 | Is there any probability that there will be any? |
47289 | Is there any probability, the slightest indication, that it will answer? |
47289 | Is there any provision in the constitution directing it? |
47289 | Is there any provision now made? |
47289 | Is there any thing in the last communication from the President, calculated to produce such an effect? |
47289 | Is there any thing yet wanting to fill up the full measure of injustice you have sustained? |
47289 | Is there no danger that we shall become enervated by the spirit of avarice, unfortunately so predominant? |
47289 | Is there no difference between protecting an existing right, and taking away a right from one party for the purpose of vesting it in another party? |
47289 | Is there no difference in the price under these circumstances? |
47289 | Is there not in this some proof that the evil has been magnified? |
47289 | Is there not time, I beseech you, gentlemen, to proceed in the regular mode to the election of our officers? |
47289 | Is there, indeed, a physical impossibility of removing them? |
47289 | Is this a justification for such an atrocious and exorbitant grasp at power? |
47289 | Is this a novel doctrine, either as to time, or the nation who now attempts to enforce it? |
47289 | Is this an honest neutrality? |
47289 | Is this coincidence of members, this exclusively Federal petitioning, no mark of party? |
47289 | Is this embargo what it pretends to be-- preparation for war? |
47289 | Is this great continent and the free millions who inhabit it, again to become appendages of the British Crown? |
47289 | Is this measure no abridgment of their rights? |
47289 | Is this no argument for reduction? |
47289 | Is this republican? |
47289 | Is this the period of all others to be selected to incorporate unmeaning laws in the body of your statute book? |
47289 | Is your course along the highway of nations unobstructed? |
47289 | It appears to be limited to sixty days; at the expiration of that time will any one say we shall be prepared for war? |
47289 | It had been asked, why was the country unprepared for defence? |
47289 | It has been asked whether the embargo has not operated more on the United States than on the European Powers? |
47289 | It has been rejected by France, and rejected by England after an expense of hundreds of thousands of dollars-- and now are we to take it up? |
47289 | It is asked of us, why admit the vessels of France, whilst injuries which she has done us are unatoned for? |
47289 | It was possible, but was it probable that any event would occur to alter our situation for the better? |
47289 | It was then read a third time; and on the question, Shall the bill pass? |
47289 | It would rise, on a removal of the embargo, to ten or twelve dollars; and how long would that price last? |
47289 | Let me ask him, if Administration should not take this course, whether it would not be perfectly proper that Congress should be in session? |
47289 | Let me ask if an American vessel under it can go to any port of France? |
47289 | Let me ask if it be not better to admit them? |
47289 | Let me ask the gentleman who asked that question, what mighty good our Army has done by land? |
47289 | Let me ask who will buy them when put into the market? |
47289 | Let me ask you, sir, what else he did, or could intend? |
47289 | Let me ask, what will be your export while that war continues? |
47289 | Let me ask, which have we placed in the best situation, France or England? |
47289 | Let me, therefore, inquire, in what this horrible act of substitution, as Mr. Jackson would make it appear, consists? |
47289 | Man is frail, and why should not, at times of public agitation and concussion of parties, abuses arise? |
47289 | May I not trust their confutation to that general knowledge of the subject which every member of the House possesses? |
47289 | May we not cherish this sentiment, without presumption, when we reflect on the characters by which this war was distinguished? |
47289 | May we not, in time, have the whole of South America, some of the West India islands, and, possibly, Great Britain? |
47289 | Mr. Chairman, is it for an infant nation, or a popular Government, to be deterred by the want of preparation? |
47289 | Mr. D. asked if the nation was to be saved by long speeches? |
47289 | Mr. MACON asked under what clause of the constitution Captain Murray and others had been remunerated? |
47289 | Mr. STANFORD said:--Mr. Speaker, I would ask if my colleague''s motion of amendment can be in order? |
47289 | Mr. Speaker, are we to be thus amused? |
47289 | Mr. Speaker, can any argument be more conclusive? |
47289 | Mr. Speaker, what would be your conduct on such an occasion? |
47289 | Mr. Speaker: What is this liberty of which so much is said? |
47289 | Must I not, then, deplore the feebleness of voice, the want of force, of manner, and promptness of mind and thought, which limit me? |
47289 | Must the best interests of the nation be put to hazard to save him the mortification of acknowledging his error and retracing his steps? |
47289 | My colleague( Mr. CLAY) has asked for the congeniality between a bank and the collection of our revenue? |
47289 | Need I remind you, said Mr. R., of the millions of victims sacrificed to commercial cupidity on the plains of Hindostan, by means of this navy? |
47289 | Need I say any thing further on the subject? |
47289 | Need I undertake to prove that, from the moment Whitney''s patent expired, his exclusive right ceased to exist? |
47289 | No doubt, sir, when the embargo is taken off, a momentary spur will be given to exportation; but how long will it continue? |
47289 | No; it has the ability, that is admitted; but will it not have the disposition? |
47289 | No; it was intended by this bounty to make us a great commercial people; and shall we ungratefully reject the enjoyment of his unexampled beneficence? |
47289 | Now I would ask, whether it is probable, that the British subjects would be willing to lend us money to carry on war against their sovereign? |
47289 | Now suppose we should look over our former exports to this island in any one year, what should we find the amount to be? |
47289 | Now the questions which result are, has the act been done? |
47289 | Now what is proposed by denying a renewal of the United States''Bank charter? |
47289 | Now, I ask, if they dare not resort to a direct tax, excise laws, and stamp acts, where will they obtain money? |
47289 | Now, he asked, whether men who had any regard to national honor would consent to navigate the ocean on terms so disgraceful? |
47289 | Now, if it became a State, would not all right of negotiation on the subject be taken from the President? |
47289 | Now, is not here an essential right to be alienated? |
47289 | Now, is there any reason to suppose that the contingent expenses of our navy would be greater in proportion to its force than this? |
47289 | Now, sir, I ask when we have made this country a State if we can do this? |
47289 | Now, sir, after thus stripping this extraordinary sentence of all its disguises, and translating it into plain English, to what does it amount? |
47289 | Now, sir, as to the non- intercourse system-- how does that operate? |
47289 | Now, sir, did this decree exist at the time of its date? |
47289 | Now, that the State which the gentleman represents is almost in arms against us? |
47289 | Now, what is the fact? |
47289 | Now, what reliance could be placed on this patriotism? |
47289 | Now, when a vile spirit of party has gone abroad and distracted the Union? |
47289 | Of what avail is the proclamation of the Prince Regent in this country, ordering the British subjects home? |
47289 | Of what consequence is it to us what way the Gottenburg merchant disposes of our products, after he has paid us our price? |
47289 | Of what materials will this army be composed? |
47289 | Of what nature are the rights in contest? |
47289 | On commercial intercourse? |
47289 | On the question, Shall the bill be read a third time as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall the bill pass to the third reading as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass as amended? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this bill pass? |
47289 | On the question, Shall this resolution pass? |
47289 | On the question,"Shall this bill be engrossed and read a third time, as amended?" |
47289 | On the question: Shall this bill pass to a third reading, as amended? |
47289 | On the subject of impressments, for which alone the war is now to be continued, what, let me ask, is the principle for which our Government contends? |
47289 | On the subject of maritime law, has he not stated things which before were unheard of? |
47289 | On what does the ability of a nation depend? |
47289 | On what ground can this discrimination be defended? |
47289 | On what ground does this rest? |
47289 | On what principle is it that British ships were first excluded and on which their exclusion was confirmed by the non- intercourse law? |
47289 | On what, sir, is the honor of this nation now suspended? |
47289 | Or against England, who, with the monopoly of commerce which you leave her to enjoy, has no object further to annoy you? |
47289 | Or by what right do we create a military school? |
47289 | Or does the obligation of friendship exist on the part of the United States alone? |
47289 | Or in what section of the Union does the gentleman presume to say the American people will not submit to the law? |
47289 | Or is he the President of the United States? |
47289 | Or is he to get that information from inofficial sources? |
47289 | Or is it there our seamen are held in captivity? |
47289 | Or was it ever contended that had not the embargo been raised, the terms of Jay''s treaty would have been worse? |
47289 | Or was the Administration conducted in such a manner as to make the firmness and patriotism of the nation itself doubted abroad? |
47289 | Or, are we to tantalize their hopes with energy in one law and imbecility in another? |
47289 | Or, if it be one of those unmeaning propositions, the discussion of which could answer no good to this House? |
47289 | Ought it not, then, to follow, that the rights of those employed on land or water should also be inseparable? |
47289 | Ought the impending calamities to be left to the hazard of a contingent remedy? |
47289 | Ought we not to relieve its anxieties? |
47289 | Ought we, sir, to depend upon these men to man our fleets, or to defend our ports and harbors? |
47289 | Our privateers; will they have no effect on Great Britain? |
47289 | Pay tribute-- for what? |
47289 | Permit me here to endeavor to illustrate my idea by a reference to the constitution itself? |
47289 | Permit me to ask, how has it been ascertained that a bank is necessary to the operations of the Government? |
47289 | Permit me to inquire of that gentleman whether he ever saw a law authorizing one man to give another his promissory note? |
47289 | Permit me to inquire, in the first place, how the object of the constitution may be attained? |
47289 | Porter,"Free trade and sailor''s rights,"617; is there a man doubts the war was justly undertaken? |
47289 | Public property; and what species? |
47289 | Put down this bank, and how then are your revenues to be collected? |
47289 | Question 2--At what place was the conversation held? |
47289 | Question 3--Have you seen the members alluded to, or any of them, since you first appeared before this committee on Saturday last? |
47289 | Question by the committee-- From the conversation of what members did you collect the information of which you have spoken? |
47289 | Question, shall the Senate adhere to their amendments? |
47289 | Question-- Do you know where Henry is now? |
47289 | Respectable merchants, I observe, form a part of the bank deputies-- for what? |
47289 | Retain the qualified veto, and take away the power to prorogue and dissolve, and what will be the consequence? |
47289 | Reverse this picture, admitting that you have a war with Great Britain, what will be its consequences? |
47289 | SIR: Before I reply to your question,"how many major generals and brigadiers are necessary for an army of thirty- five thousand men?" |
47289 | Say thirty- five, and you add twenty, making together fifty- five: what use is there in multiplying regiments without men? |
47289 | Say, if you please, that you had those ships built, could you send them to sea? |
47289 | Seamen, who shall be attached by every tie to this country, and on whom we can depend for its defence in time of danger? |
47289 | Shall I be obliged by a laborious process of reasoning to prove the obligation of Government to rescue him from such suffering? |
47289 | Shall I be pardoned, sir, when I fear our vessels will only tend to swell the present catalogue of the British navy? |
47289 | Shall I be told the President had discovered that the blockade had been"avowed to be comprehended in, and identified with, the orders in council?" |
47289 | Shall I not attempt to arrest your progress in the path where lies a serpent that will sting you to death? |
47289 | Shall it again be held, in its orbit by the attractive, the corruptive influence of the petty island of Great Britain? |
47289 | Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults? |
47289 | Shall negotiation be spun out further? |
47289 | Shall the majority govern, or shall a few wicked and abandoned men drive this nation from the ground it has taken? |
47289 | Shall the nation give way to an opposition of a few, and those the most profligate part of the community? |
47289 | Shall the revenue be reduced? |
47289 | Shall this bill pass to a third reading as amended? |
47289 | Shall we after this be told that Congress can not constitutionally exercise any right by implication? |
47289 | Shall we always shrink from the contest? |
47289 | Shall we always yield? |
47289 | Shall we exclude both, admit both, or discriminate? |
47289 | Shall we have companies without captains, or shall the United States pay for two captains? |
47289 | Shall we sit here with our arms folded until the enemy is at our gates? |
47289 | Shall we then abandon commerce, or shall we strive to support it? |
47289 | Shall we then believe the one and not the other? |
47289 | Shall we thereby secure our commercial rights? |
47289 | Shall we turn a deaf ear to the claims of individuals upon Government because of this statute? |
47289 | Shall we vindicate our independence at the expense of our social or moral obligations? |
47289 | Shall we, by their conquest, obtain the objects for which this war is waged? |
47289 | Shall we, sir, continue the war for these men? |
47289 | Shall we, then, by passing this resolution, sanction an idea that Lieutenant- Colonel Washington was entitled to more respect than others? |
47289 | Shall we, then, utter this libel on the nation? |
47289 | Should France have been selected? |
47289 | Sir, are we to continue in this state any longer? |
47289 | Sir, can men thus situated, solvent as they ought to be ten times over, find relief from the State banks? |
47289 | Sir, have I moved you a nauseous, sickening resolution, stuffed with adulation? |
47289 | Sir, have we no rights to defend? |
47289 | Sir, have we not been for years contending against the tyranny of the ocean? |
47289 | Sir, how is this to be done? |
47289 | Sir, if simplicity was not originally contemplated by the framers of the constitution, why the imposition on the people in publishing it to the world? |
47289 | Sir, if this be the fact, of whom does this wealthy population consist? |
47289 | Sir, is it possible that Congress can so far forget their duties to the people and their respect for themselves? |
47289 | Sir, shall I not be permitted to point to the yawning gulf beneath? |
47289 | Sir, what can gentlemen flatter themselves by suffering this discussion to be protracted to so unwarrantable a length? |
47289 | Sir, what has been the cause of our present condition? |
47289 | Sir, what in such a case would be true honor? |
47289 | Sir, what is the nature and import of this proclamation? |
47289 | Sir, what is this power we propose now to usurp? |
47289 | Sir, what sort of title is this? |
47289 | Sir, what would be the effect of passing by unnoticed these gross and insidious insults to both the people and Government? |
47289 | Sir, where is your commerce now to protect? |
47289 | Sir, will not the same reasoning apply against the maritime towns being taxed to support the army of 10,000 men in the West? |
47289 | Sir, will your money, when collected, be safe in the State banks? |
47289 | Sir, without indulging in vague conjectures, what are the best data we have to form an estimate of the amount of specie in the country? |
47289 | Sir, would Great Britain rely for her oracles on the newspapers or pamphlets of this country? |
47289 | Sixty thousand? |
47289 | So far from it, would not the danger of French influence be resounded throughout the nation? |
47289 | Some gentlemen indulge great expectations from privateers; but has Great Britain any unarmed or unprotected trade which they can attack? |
47289 | Strip the proposition, and what language does it speak? |
47289 | Suppose an attack upon any portion of the American army within the acknowledged limits of the United States by a Spanish force? |
47289 | Suppose an attempt to subvert this Government, would not the traitor first aim, by force or corruption, to acquire the treasure of this company? |
47289 | Suppose it ours, are we any nearer to our point? |
47289 | Suppose that the whole fine in any particular case had been paid by individual subscription, what has the Government to do with that? |
47289 | Suppose these men had been arrested and tried in this country, what would have been their lot? |
47289 | Suppose they should neglect or refuse to make these appointments, can you compel them to do it? |
47289 | Suppose this expectation disappointed-- suppose the harbor of New York blockaded by two seventy- fours? |
47289 | Suppose you make this transmission once, can you do it a second time? |
47289 | Surely; and yet we pay annually a tribute for permission to do it-- and why? |
47289 | Surrender your independence-- for what? |
47289 | Take a landsman on board a ship, and what sort of a sailor will he make? |
47289 | Take off the embargo, they cry-- for what? |
47289 | Take, then, the population of Canada to be 300,000 souls; what number of militia should this population furnish? |
47289 | Tell me, said he, what is to keep a great proportion of them from your coast in 1813? |
47289 | That is out of the question; then, the only question is, whether in the present state of the world, the embargo or war is the best for us? |
47289 | That of our cotton, at least one- half finds its market there? |
47289 | That she can admit that we have her always perfectly in our power? |
47289 | That the gentlemen on the other side of the House were divided on that subject, as they were upon the question of the reduction of the Navy? |
47289 | That they should expend large sums of money for the purpose of buying them out? |
47289 | That we should repel insults and respect ourselves? |
47289 | That, because we can not submit to the edicts of the belligerents, we will therefore open a free trade with them? |
47289 | That, under the pretext of a purchase from an Indian, named Double Head, people have gone over to settle lands, is true; but from where? |
47289 | The Orders in Council-- and what were they worth to him? |
47289 | The SPEAKER inquired whether Mr. G. yielded the floor? |
47289 | The SPEAKER then decided that the main question to now put, was:"Will the House concur with the Senate in the amendments made to the bill?" |
47289 | The amendments made by the House having been agreed to, the question was stated, Shall the bill be engrossed, and read a third time? |
47289 | The avowed principle is retaliation, but is it the true principle? |
47289 | The basis of all commerce is calculation; what calculation can be found for distant enterprises when the data are perpetually shifting? |
47289 | The commerce of that city, which exists only by commerce, destroyed? |
47289 | The committee rose and reported the bill without amendment, and the question was, Shall it be engrossed for a third reading? |
47289 | The gentleman from Kentucky( Mr. CLAY) asked, if banks are necessary for collecting the public revenues, why give them any other power? |
47289 | The gentleman from Pennsylvania asked yesterday, why not repeal the embargo laws, and provide for the enforcement of this system by a new law? |
47289 | The gentleman had appealed to the House to know why they would retain them? |
47289 | The gentleman says, suppose they were to return to their country, would they not be punished? |
47289 | The great subject for the contemplation of every reflecting mind in America was, what that remedy should be? |
47289 | The inquiry has been made, with some solicitude, what will you do with_ naturalized foreigners_? |
47289 | The majority now stand on high ground-- what will be said, and what will be the consequence of a refusal? |
47289 | The merchants? |
47289 | The negotiation opens, and what is done? |
47289 | The only question is, do they cease to violate our neutral commerce? |
47289 | The only question that presents itself is, Is the information useful to us? |
47289 | The press is groaning with pamphlets-- for what? |
47289 | The proceeding was unanimous; and what benefit did the British nation receive from this unanimous and prompt proceeding? |
47289 | The proper extent of the discussion growing out of this bill seemed to be confined to these inquiries: Can the force contemplated be obtained? |
47289 | The protection of the General Government claimed? |
47289 | The question is, Has he told the truth? |
47289 | The question is, how many marines are necessary, and in what battles are they employed? |
47289 | The question is, what regulation shall we make respecting public ships, and one of three courses is to be pursued? |
47289 | The question is, what should be done? |
47289 | The question ought always to be, What becomes the nation? |
47289 | The question then arises, what, under these circumstances, ought the officers and crew to be allowed? |
47289 | The question then presents itself, has Congress the power to divest the people of that right? |
47289 | The question was stated thus:"Is the decision of the SPEAKER correct?" |
47289 | The question was then taken--"Shall the amendments be engrossed, and, together with the bill, be read a third time?" |
47289 | The question was then, on what day shall it be read? |
47289 | The question which at once presents itself to every mind disposed to inquire, is, what is the object of this vast military force? |
47289 | The question"Shall the bill be engrossed for a third reading?" |
47289 | The right of not being vexed or endangered by paper blockades? |
47289 | The said bill was, accordingly, read the third time: Whereupon, Mr. SPEAKER stated the question from the chair, that the same do pass? |
47289 | The second object, which should never for a moment escape attention, Can the law be executed? |
47289 | The ship owners, the East and West India merchants, and what cause have they for war? |
47289 | The spoliation of your property? |
47289 | The true question is not, Is the matter expressed in this abstract proposition true? |
47289 | The violation of the personal liberty of your citizens and the degradation of the ensign of your sovereignty? |
47289 | The whole estate or my moiety only? |
47289 | Then the question results, has Congress a right, in order to determine its title, to refer it to any tribunal whatever? |
47289 | Then, to my mind, the only question is, shall we defend ourselves, or shall we submit? |
47289 | There ought to be no question as to what stock they sprung from; the true question was, ought they to be a State? |
47289 | They ask where are the men-- where is the money to be obtained? |
47289 | They asked--"What do we want of Canada? |
47289 | They complained of the first embargo; what did they get? |
47289 | They have been delivered to you by my honorable colleague-- what are they? |
47289 | They were gaining strength daily, and what was the situation of our Southern borders? |
47289 | They were repealed, finally, in consequence-- of what? |
47289 | Thirty thousand? |
47289 | This being the case, who would now be most likely to be supplied with it? |
47289 | This decree did not exist; and why was it not issued? |
47289 | This decree purports to be an act of reprisal on this country, and for what cause? |
47289 | This heaped up measure of legislative contumely is prepared; for whom? |
47289 | Through the medium of the State banks? |
47289 | To break up your infant manufactories, and to deprive poor children at once of a useful employment, and a home? |
47289 | To defeat the passage of this bill? |
47289 | To promote the public good or advance the national prosperity? |
47289 | To protect the constituents of my worthy colleague, in the enjoyment of their peace of mind? |
47289 | To provide no protection against smaller powers? |
47289 | To such favored beings what would be the suggestions of love, truly parental? |
47289 | To the Baltic, sir? |
47289 | To what is it owing that we are at this moment deliberating under the forms of a free representative government? |
47289 | To what purpose do we keep up the Marines, another branch of the Establishment? |
47289 | To what was our superiority owing? |
47289 | To whom will you confide the charge of leading the flower of our youth to the Heights of Abraham? |
47289 | Under all these circumstances was it wise and prudent to discharge the Navy? |
47289 | Under such circumstances is it not to be expected that this measure of the Executive will result in war? |
47289 | Under such circumstances, what should hurry us into the war? |
47289 | Under these circumstances what ought I to do? |
47289 | Under these circumstances, Mr. R. asked the House if it were not necessary for a committee to be appointed to probe into this business? |
47289 | Under this grant, Congress can pass laws to carry into effect the powers vested in the judicial department? |
47289 | Under what clause money paid into the Treasury had been returned in various instances? |
47289 | Upon meeting with this gentleman he inquired of me what had been done? |
47289 | Upon what ground, then, sir, is it that we are called on to pass this additional non- importation act against Great Britain? |
47289 | Upon whom are they dependent for legal existence and for length of days? |
47289 | Virginia has the physical force, but has she a moral right to violate the Constitution of the United States? |
47289 | War has been declared by a law of the land; and what would be thought of similar attempts to defeat any other law, however inconsiderable its object? |
47289 | Was Holland ruined by her navy? |
47289 | Was any nation ever less prepared for war? |
47289 | Was ever any body of men so cruelly wounded in the house of their friend? |
47289 | Was he expected to answer this question? |
47289 | Was he to set at defiance the law of the land? |
47289 | Was it believed that the gentleman from Pennsylvania( Mr. SMILIE) was disposed to submit to the belligerents? |
47289 | Was it competent, he asked, to the Government to receive as testimony the statement of the commander or crew of an American corsair? |
47289 | Was it for the purpose of destroying the Government? |
47289 | Was it for this the martyrs of the Revolution died? |
47289 | Was it not for want of unanimity in support of the measure? |
47289 | Was it not in consequence of its having been wantonly, shamefully, and infamously violated? |
47289 | Was it not, he asked, infinitely absurd and a direct violation of the constitution, to apportion the representation before these numbers were known? |
47289 | Was it obtained_ bona fide_ for a fair and full consideration? |
47289 | Was it proposed now to declare war? |
47289 | Was it so considered by the Republicans, when resorted to for redress against the primary violations in 1793? |
47289 | Was it such a repeal as the gentleman contends ought to have taken place of the Berlin and Milan decrees, viz: under the sign manual of the Emperor? |
47289 | Was it taken from an impression which had gone abroad in the country? |
47289 | Was it that the members of that Army should sheath their swords in the bowels of the liberties of their country? |
47289 | Was it then for the first time, that a division of sentiment appeared on this floor? |
47289 | Was not the President, in good faith, bound to believe the fact, and, believing it, bound to act as he did? |
47289 | Was not the first vessel which ever doubled the Cape of Good Hope, under the flag of the United States, the old frigate Alliance? |
47289 | Was not the royal family decoyed by artifice from Madrid to Bayonne? |
47289 | Was the President of the United States presumed to have turned a deaf ear to the cries of our suffering countrymen in captivity in a foreign nation? |
47289 | Was the batture ceded to the United States? |
47289 | Was the embargo principle considered submission in the days of the stamp act? |
47289 | Was the fact so? |
47289 | Was the gentleman from Maryland( Mr. KEY) who represented the adjacent district, in the same belligerent temper? |
47289 | Was the letter of Mr. Erskine a repeal of the British orders? |
47289 | Was the right of the citizen to fall prostrate before such an_ ex parte_ opinion or statement as that might be? |
47289 | Was there not some difficulty, under the proclamation, in the admission of the Statira frigate, bearing that Minister into our waters? |
47289 | Was this a necessary of life without which they could not subsist? |
47289 | Was this an avowed object in the Convention when it formed this article? |
47289 | Was this blockade such a violation of the neutral rights of the United States as to come decidedly within the act of the last session? |
47289 | Was this body calculated for that branch of Government? |
47289 | Was this the ground on which the subject was placed? |
47289 | We are farther told that impressment of seamen was not considered a sufficient cause of war; and are asked why should it be continued on that account? |
47289 | We are not only, sir, to ruin many innocent and unoffending individuals, but to derange the national finances; and for what is all this to be done? |
47289 | We are now going to war for the protection of these rights; but in what way, and under what circumstances? |
47289 | We are, sir, in a state of war; and what is evidently the course which we should pursue whilst in that situation? |
47289 | We asked, What were the emoluments? |
47289 | We create a military school-- for what purpose? |
47289 | We have been asked, Mr. Speaker, why not lay upon your table a proposition to go to war? |
47289 | We have been asked,"What are some of the small States when compared with the Mississippi Territory?" |
47289 | We lay an embargo-- is there any clause in the constitution authorizing us to lay embargoes? |
47289 | We say we will not trade-- with whom? |
47289 | We take off the embargo, and trade on their terms; what will be the consequence? |
47289 | Well, sir, how does she dispose of it? |
47289 | Well, sir, how was this miracle brought about? |
47289 | Well, sir, if the bank promptly calls in its loan of four hundred thousand dollars, will the debtors be enabled to meet their payments? |
47289 | Well, sir, was there ever a crisis calling on a people for vigorous exertions more awful than that which impends over us now? |
47289 | Well, sir, what then? |
47289 | Well, what then, say my friends? |
47289 | Well, what then? |
47289 | Were I to affirm the House is now in session, would it be reasonable to ask for proof? |
47289 | Were ever a body of men so abandoned in the hour of need, as the American Cabinet, in this instance by Bonaparte? |
47289 | Were gentlemen willing to submit to this: to raise the embargo, and subject our trade to this depredation? |
47289 | Were not parties arrayed against each other in 1796 on the subject of the British Treaty, and in 1798-''9, on the question of a war with France? |
47289 | Were not the disputes in this House, in those times, as long and as bitter as they have ever been since? |
47289 | Were the islands starved during these years? |
47289 | Were these people to be starved out, when they could actually purchase cheaper now from other places than they had formerly done from us? |
47289 | Were they to have resisted, and how? |
47289 | Were we more regardful of the property than the personal liberty of the citizen? |
47289 | Were we not to resist Great Britain because of her 1,130 sail of armed vessels? |
47289 | Were we to redress those wrongs, those commercial injuries, on the land? |
47289 | Were you able in the summer to recruit your army of twenty- five thousand men, could it be employed in any service in the course of this year? |
47289 | What State would have adopted the constitution, if it had been foreseen that this power would be granted to any man, however distinguished by office? |
47289 | What accounts did he bring? |
47289 | What advantage are my constituents to derive from the expenditure of this money? |
47289 | What advantage have we derived from it? |
47289 | What are a few seaport towns-- enterprising, wealthy, and prosperous, as indeed they are-- what are they, compared to my continental system?" |
47289 | What are his doctrines? |
47289 | What are our preparations for war? |
47289 | What are some of the legal effects of this incorporation? |
47289 | What are statutes of limitation as applicable to individual cases? |
47289 | What are the reasons for vesting Congress with the right to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States? |
47289 | What are they? |
47289 | What are they? |
47289 | What are you about to do-- to breathe vigor and energy into the bill? |
47289 | What becomes of the immense revenues derived from those sources? |
47289 | What better mode could have been adopted, to prevent Indian hostility and intercept British supplies of the instruments of massacre? |
47289 | What but pillage, insult, and scorn? |
47289 | What can resuscitate wheat devoured by the fly? |
47289 | What cause of complaint has Denmark, or ever had Denmark, against us? |
47289 | What cause, Mr. Chairman, which existed for declaring the war has been removed? |
47289 | What change, sir, has occurred in the state of things to produce this strange impossibility? |
47289 | What claim has the Spanish Government upon our moderation and forbearance? |
47289 | What crime has been left undone? |
47289 | What did she first dictate for remedying any complaint? |
47289 | What did they do? |
47289 | What did you in this instance? |
47289 | What do its terms necessarily include? |
47289 | What do they imply? |
47289 | What do we understand by regulating commerce? |
47289 | What does it still require? |
47289 | What does public economy require, but that every one should serve the Republic in that capacity in which he can be most useful? |
47289 | What does the Attorney- General state in his report? |
47289 | What does this prove? |
47289 | What earthly good can result from it? |
47289 | What effect do gentlemen expect that the embargo will have had in May? |
47289 | What effect has it produced on France? |
47289 | What effect has this measure produced on foreign nations? |
47289 | What evidence have we had since to give us a more favorable prospect, as it respects the revocation of the decrees? |
47289 | What fate befalls the agriculture of the South? |
47289 | What glory? |
47289 | What has Mr. Canning given you in return? |
47289 | What has become of that high Federal spirit which disdained to buy Louisiana? |
47289 | What has become of that vast amount of money? |
47289 | What has become of the newspaper called the Washington Federalist? |
47289 | What has been her conduct since we acquired Louisiana? |
47289 | What has been her conduct? |
47289 | What has he said? |
47289 | What have been the propositions heretofore made by our Government to Great Britain upon this subject? |
47289 | What have we done since? |
47289 | What have we gained? |
47289 | What have we here, in the estimate of last year? |
47289 | What have we to destroy this proof? |
47289 | What if the other Hull had commanded? |
47289 | What influence could the opinion of the Attorney- General have? |
47289 | What injuries have been received from France? |
47289 | What insults, what injuries had we not suffered? |
47289 | What is a corporation such as the bill contemplates? |
47289 | What is a just and necessary war? |
47289 | What is done with it at this epoch? |
47289 | What is due to the national honor? |
47289 | What is it that the youth has not to prepare, or when was it that a popular Government taxed itself with previous preparation? |
47289 | What is it to lead to? |
47289 | What is it we do for a license to go into the Mediterranean? |
47289 | What is necessary to sustain an elevated fitness of character and conduct in the nation? |
47289 | What is now the situation of affairs? |
47289 | What is that plan, and what are the objects in contemplation? |
47289 | What is the consequence? |
47289 | What is the declaration made to the British Minister at this place, by our Secretary of State, on this subject? |
47289 | What is the doctrine of my friend from Georgia? |
47289 | What is the effect of this double obligation? |
47289 | What is the expression of the British Envoy on which gentlemen rely, and on which they are about to sit down quietly under the vine and fig tree? |
47289 | What is the fact, admitting all that this person has said to be true? |
47289 | What is the fact? |
47289 | What is the import of this provision? |
47289 | What is the language they speak? |
47289 | What is the nature of the title set up by the gentleman from Vermont? |
47289 | What is the nature of this Government? |
47289 | What is the object of this language? |
47289 | What is the object of this vast military force? |
47289 | What is the plain language of this preamble? |
47289 | What is the proposition which he submits? |
47289 | What is the result of it? |
47289 | What is the situation of our country generally? |
47289 | What is the spirit that breathes in the five resolutions which have been adopted-- resolutions which were in entire accordance with my feelings? |
47289 | What is the state of British commerce at this time? |
47289 | What is the state of the bank in this city? |
47289 | What is the state of things alluded to? |
47289 | What is the state of trade between us and France? |
47289 | What is the subject- matter in dispute? |
47289 | What is this argument of infancy? |
47289 | What is this tribute? |
47289 | What is to fill your Treasury now, if the people can not sell their products? |
47289 | What limitation does it contain upon the power to raise and support armies? |
47289 | What limitation does the constitution contain upon the power to lay and collect taxes, imposts, duties, and excises? |
47289 | What loans, I ask, have Government ever received from the Bank of the United States? |
47289 | What maritime strength is it expedient to provide for the United States? |
47289 | What may be the effect, if you introduce either of these two principles into this bill? |
47289 | What misfortune so great as the loss of character? |
47289 | What more can you do? |
47289 | What must be the effect of such insinuations? |
47289 | What must be the inevitable consequence if this measure is suffered to go into effect? |
47289 | What must you do? |
47289 | What nation or individual ever reached that state? |
47289 | What nation, in so short a time, ever before ascended to such a height of commercial greatness? |
47289 | What new order of things has disqualified them for the enjoyment of liberty? |
47289 | What object could he have in view which should induce him to conclude an arrangement, except with full confidence of its being carried into effect? |
47289 | What offence has she committed against France? |
47289 | What power have we to negotiate about the territory of any of the States? |
47289 | What prohibits us from doing to England what England does to us? |
47289 | What prospect is there that the embargo will be removed? |
47289 | What reason could there be for enacting this law, if the principles of the law of 1807 were correct? |
47289 | What reason had been given for such a course? |
47289 | What regular trade can yield such profits on the outward and inward cargoes? |
47289 | What reply did the majority of Congress give to this train of reasoning? |
47289 | What republicanism is this? |
47289 | What resistance do they afford against their decrees or confiscation? |
47289 | What restore flour soured in the barrel? |
47289 | What restriction is to be found in it upon the right to provide and maintain a navy? |
47289 | What right has Britain to tyrannize on the ocean, and prescribe limits to our trade? |
47289 | What right, in the whole charter of our rights, has not at some time been abused? |
47289 | What rights, Mr. Chairman? |
47289 | What satisfaction has been received for your plundered property? |
47289 | What says France? |
47289 | What says it? |
47289 | What says the sarcastic British Minister? |
47289 | What shall we say of the_ French_ doctrine in relation to this subject of impressment? |
47289 | What sort of attack have we cause to expect? |
47289 | What the ability of its debtors to meet their engagements? |
47289 | What then is the inference from this state of the case? |
47289 | What then is the object of the opposition? |
47289 | What then results? |
47289 | What then was her situation? |
47289 | What then will be the consequence of passing this bill? |
47289 | What then would be the case? |
47289 | What then? |
47289 | What think you, sir? |
47289 | What though their cities offer no plunder? |
47289 | What though their conquest can yield no glory? |
47289 | What upon the right to declare war and make peace? |
47289 | What use has been made of it? |
47289 | What was our situation now? |
47289 | What was that case? |
47289 | What was the amount of the gentleman''s showing on this occasion? |
47289 | What was the case in 1798? |
47289 | What was the condition to be performed on the part of France? |
47289 | What was the consequence? |
47289 | What was the consequence? |
47289 | What was the consequence? |
47289 | What was the effect of our eloquent addresses, when colonies, placed at the foot of the British throne? |
47289 | What was the effect of this information? |
47289 | What was the fact as respected France? |
47289 | What was the fact in this case? |
47289 | What was the history of it? |
47289 | What was the leading object of the adoption of the Federal Constitution in the northern parts of the Union? |
47289 | What was the occupation of a Virginian wife-- her highest ambition? |
47289 | What was the offer made to our Government by the British Ministry? |
47289 | What was the policy of the ordinance, and what the object of its framers? |
47289 | What was the power of Venice and Genoa when they led the van of naval power? |
47289 | What was the situation of some branches of our commerce then? |
47289 | What was the situation of the slaveholding States? |
47289 | What was the vote then? |
47289 | What was then our condition? |
47289 | What was then our situation with those nations? |
47289 | What was there to mar success? |
47289 | What was this ground? |
47289 | What were the House about to do? |
47289 | What were the facts? |
47289 | What were the objects of the war? |
47289 | What were then the doctrines of the French Government? |
47289 | What were those measures? |
47289 | What were those that characterized its progress and termination? |
47289 | What were your preparations for the Revolutionary war, and when made? |
47289 | What will avail the activity or gallantry of your officers and seamen against such disparity of force? |
47289 | What will be the consequence of laying down our arms, of shrinking from our present attitude? |
47289 | What will be the consequence of such neglect? |
47289 | What will be the influence of such an institution on the Government, and the country at large? |
47289 | What will be the situation of this unhappy, misguided country? |
47289 | What will in this case become of your source of wealth in the Western country? |
47289 | What will the Government of Spain, Junta, King, or Governors of Spanish provinces to whom you apply, say to you on this subject? |
47289 | What will the gentleman discover, by examining the history of the period he referred to? |
47289 | What would an honest Dutchman in the West think of a man who kept as many stables as horses, and those of the most expensive construction, too? |
47289 | What would be inferred from this procedure? |
47289 | What would be said in a court of justice in a case of murder? |
47289 | What would be the effect of such a system in the present war? |
47289 | What would be the effect of this war upon ourselves? |
47289 | What would be the effects of war, the tocsin of which was for the first time sounded through the land? |
47289 | What would be the object of a war? |
47289 | What would be the situation of your seaports and their seafaring inhabitants? |
47289 | What would be the upshot? |
47289 | What would have been the situation of our cause in the Revolution, if, after the British successes in Jersey, we had desponded? |
47289 | What would have been thought of such conduct in the war of the Revolution? |
47289 | What would it have been for sixty, one hundred, or three hundred and sixty- five days past? |
47289 | What would then be the state of the Territorial Legislatures? |
47289 | What, I would ask, is the probable fact, as to the facilities which this bank will afford the Government in borrowing? |
47289 | What, Mr. President, is the nature of this title? |
47289 | What, Mr. Speaker, are we now called on to decide? |
47289 | What, have we a Minister abroad, and is he afraid or unwilling to make a proposition to the Government where he is resident? |
47289 | What, he asked of the House, was settled by the passage of this bill? |
47289 | What, he asked, was the extent of the country in question? |
47289 | What, said Mr. C, is this statute of limitations, which, whenever mentioned in this House, seems to make everybody tremble? |
47289 | What, said Mr. D., is the situation in which we are now placed? |
47289 | What, said Mr. M., will be the effect of a proposition for taxing salt in the country? |
47289 | What, said Mr. R., has been the situation of Great Britain in relation to Spain? |
47289 | What, sir, are, or have been its effects on Great Britain? |
47289 | What, sir, did gentlemen on this floor say was the purport of this note? |
47289 | What, sir, has been the practice of the British House of Commons? |
47289 | What, sir, has been the practice under this law? |
47289 | What, sir, have the other party done? |
47289 | What, sir, said Mr. M., would have become of Rome, had she desponded when Hannibal defeated her armies? |
47289 | What, sir, shall constitute cause of war? |
47289 | What, sir, was the avowed object of this war? |
47289 | What, sir, was the conduct of the British Parliament and nation upon that occasion? |
47289 | What, sir, was the object of that law? |
47289 | What, sir, were the circumstances under which that mission was despatched here? |
47289 | What, sir? |
47289 | What, then, had experience taught them on this subject? |
47289 | What, then, is the true construction of the Treaties of St. Ildefonso and of April, 1803, from whence our title is derived? |
47289 | What, then, is this case? |
47289 | What, then, let me ask, has changed the character of those people, that they are to be despised? |
47289 | What, then, was our situation when Congress met? |
47289 | What, then, were the causes of the war? |
47289 | When Bonaparte talks of the freedom of the seas, does he mean the same idea which we attach to these words when we use them? |
47289 | When Mr. Jefferson, that illustrious character, presided over the destinies of the United States, why was not this navy- building proposed? |
47289 | When Spain was the ally of France she was-- what? |
47289 | When an adjustment is made with one of those powers, what is your language? |
47289 | When did our coercive measures commence? |
47289 | When did that voracious monster ever disgorge the plunder he had once received into his insatiable maw? |
47289 | When did they begin; when, though they may have been varied in character, were they relaxed in degree, and when were they probably to cease? |
47289 | When gentlemen attempt to carry this measure, upon the ground of acquiescence or precedent, do they forget that we are not in Westminster Hall? |
47289 | When has England been at peace with all the world, since she became a great naval power? |
47289 | When he talks of the principles of maritime law, does he mean the same as we? |
47289 | When the country was in want of clothing, and could get it for one- fourth price from the British, what was the consequence? |
47289 | When you had differences with both the belligerents, what was your language? |
47289 | When, by the express letter of the instrument,"new States may be admitted,"and when Vermont, not mentioned in the Confederation, has been admitted? |
47289 | Whence but from that origin came all the blessings of life, so far as political privileges are concerned? |
47289 | Whence can the money be obtained? |
47289 | Whence comes it, that in the archives of this Assembly, we find copies of licenses given by the Executive power of the nation-- to do what? |
47289 | Whence could be the objection to Congress meeting at an earlier day? |
47289 | Whence did we derive a power to purchase Louisiana, and incorporate it with the good old United States? |
47289 | Whence does this gentleman derive the power of declaring an act of Congress not in force, declared by the President''s proclamation to be in force? |
47289 | Whence the inducement to urge the annulment of a blockade of France, when, if annulled, no American cargoes would obtain a market in any of her ports? |
47289 | Whence the power to make it an instrument of commerce? |
47289 | Whence was derived a power to pass a law laying an embargo without limitation? |
47289 | Whence, sir, do you get the right, whence do you derive the powers to erect custom- houses in the maritime districts of the United States? |
47289 | Where are her colonies into which we could carry our arms? |
47289 | Where are her ships?--where her commerce? |
47289 | Where are the navies of Sweden and Denmark? |
47289 | Where are they gone? |
47289 | Where are those rights when great maritime powers become belligerent? |
47289 | Where are we to come in contact with our enemy? |
47289 | Where can the necessary supply of cotton be procured? |
47289 | Where could we have carried on against her any of the operations of war? |
47289 | Where could we subjugate her provinces? |
47289 | Where do you expect to find regulations of commerce? |
47289 | Where does the remainder usually go? |
47289 | Where have you seen a National Bank, connected with the Government, which has not ultimately ruined the circulating medium of the nation? |
47289 | Where is Holland now? |
47289 | Where is it when Canada is mentioned? |
47289 | Where is that spirit which enforced a simple resolution of the old Congress, not then binding upon the people, as a law from Heaven? |
47289 | Where is that spirit which for this reason separated us from the nations of Europe? |
47289 | Where is the Macedonian phalanx, the opposition in Congress? |
47289 | Where is the Montgomery, or even the Arnold, or the Burr, who is to march to Point Levi? |
47289 | Where is the difference, sir? |
47289 | Where is the impost duty which has supported the Government, and sunk to a considerable degree the national debt? |
47289 | Where is the justice-- where the equality-- of such a provision? |
47289 | Where is the justice? |
47289 | Where is the limitation upon this power to set up corporations? |
47289 | Where is the necessity of a proviso if the law does not bear such a construction? |
47289 | Where is the proof that the Executive did not call for those powers? |
47289 | Where is your revenue then to come from? |
47289 | Where now is the Revolutionary hero to whom you are about to confide this sacred trust? |
47289 | Where shall we stop, said Mr. D., if we tread back on the steps of each other? |
47289 | Where was the necessity, they will tell you, of declaring that the Orders in Council will_ have been_ withdrawn? |
47289 | Where were they found? |
47289 | Where will be the boasted militia of the gentleman? |
47289 | Where will proof be found of a fact so disgraceful? |
47289 | Where will those supplies be drawn from? |
47289 | Where would it end if the House were now to make a solemn resolution approving of the conduct of the President? |
47289 | Where, sir, could we attack France? |
47289 | Where, then, is the ground of such an influence? |
47289 | Where, then, is the money to be found, or what has been done with it? |
47289 | Where, then, is the necessity for this bank? |
47289 | Where, then, will you protect your commerce? |
47289 | Whether Congress have the power by the constitution to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States? |
47289 | Whether it does not appear probable that at least one thousand of those contained in this list were impressed without even a plausible pretext? |
47289 | Whether we believe in all the rights which the French Emperor condescends to claim for us from the British, although he will not admit them himself? |
47289 | Which is best-- to keep them at home, to a certain loss and probable ruin, or adventure them abroad to a possible loss and highly probable gain? |
47289 | While we facilitate negotiations with the British, why should we embarrass and prevent the same with the French? |
47289 | While we throw wide open the door of negotiation to England, why should we shut it against France? |
47289 | Whilst these peaceful experiments are undergoing a trial, what is the conduct of the opposition? |
47289 | Who but Christophe and Petion? |
47289 | Who can bear the idea of our being obliged to burn or sink all the ships we may take away from the enemy, for fear of their being recaptured? |
47289 | Who could say them nay? |
47289 | Who denies it? |
47289 | Who ever pretended to believe in its efficacy? |
47289 | Who has not heard of the once formidable fleets of Venice and Genoa? |
47289 | Who is here that hears these words, but what approves the sentiment they contain? |
47289 | Who is properly the presiding officer in this case? |
47289 | Who is there, now, in this body who has not voted for the erection of a light- house? |
47289 | Who is this man, and where is he? |
47289 | Who is this war party? |
47289 | Who must suffer by it? |
47289 | Who then has been the first aggressor? |
47289 | Who was in possession of the land when the law passed? |
47289 | Who was there now to supply all these various colonies that used to be supplied by us? |
47289 | Who was to decide which was the correct one? |
47289 | Who were the members of our first Congress? |
47289 | Who were they? |
47289 | Who will become the purchasers-- Great Britain? |
47289 | Who will impute to this body so disgraceful a motive? |
47289 | Who will profit by it? |
47289 | Who would dare to avow an intention to defeat its operation? |
47289 | Who would step forward to rescue them from that punishment due to their crime if convicted by our own courts? |
47289 | Who, sir, are the true friends-- I do not speak of motives-- who in fact are the true friends of Administration? |
47289 | Who, sir, can estimate the complicated mischiefs of a depreciated paper currency, without specie for its redemption? |
47289 | Who, sir, will be most likely to avail himself of this privilege, or rather of this course? |
47289 | Who? |
47289 | Whose products, then, would Great Britain carry? |
47289 | Why are we partisans of either? |
47289 | Why are your Ministers now loitering in foreign Courts? |
47289 | Why do it, then? |
47289 | Why give to Congress the right to coin money and regulate its value? |
47289 | Why has it so happened that this necessity has never existed until the last session of Congress? |
47289 | Why has the gentleman shielded British instigation of their outrages? |
47289 | Why has the measure failed of expected success? |
47289 | Why invest it with a capital immense in amount, and sovereign in its control over the external and internal commerce of the country? |
47289 | Why is a judge, sworn to support the laws and constitution of the country, bound by a train of decisions contrary to his own opinions? |
47289 | Why is he impelled to shed our blood? |
47289 | Why is it out of order? |
47289 | Why keep them up at this place, whence they could not get out of the river perhaps in three weeks or a month? |
47289 | Why kiss the rod of iron which inflicts the stripes without a cause? |
47289 | Why legislate by halves? |
47289 | Why love her rulers? |
47289 | Why make the distinction in this instance? |
47289 | Why need they decide this business immediately? |
47289 | Why not, it was asked, wait for the actual census of the territory? |
47289 | Why not, sir? |
47289 | Why not? |
47289 | Why should our sympathies be awakened in favor of Spain? |
47289 | Why should such a power have been delegated? |
47289 | Why should they come here then? |
47289 | Why should we hurry into a war from which nothing but calamity can be expected? |
47289 | Why so many vexatious restrictions upon neutral trade, tending to destroy competition on our part in the continental markets? |
47289 | Why then is it, that we are called upon to make a new declaration of independence? |
47289 | Why then should they not be manned and put in readiness for service? |
47289 | Why then, in this awful crisis, shall we not look to the same quarter? |
47289 | Why then, sir, should we not have union, when it is so easy and efficacious a remedy for all our difficulties? |
47289 | Why this great cry about domestic manufactures? |
47289 | Why was he not hanged as a traitor? |
47289 | Why was not that mercy which is so pathetically called for bestowed on them by that tribunal before whom the case was examined? |
47289 | Why was the evidence of the repeal of the decrees withheld? |
47289 | Why were they not liberated? |
47289 | Why, and for what was the constitution made? |
47289 | Why, sir, do you think the merchants will believe that you really intend to go to war? |
47289 | Why, sir, does the gentleman disapprove of the President''s proclamation? |
47289 | Why, sir, is it strange? |
47289 | Why, sir, was justice so long delayed, and why was it at last obtained? |
47289 | Why, then, should it be condemned? |
47289 | Why, then, should it be now determined at all events to abandon this measure? |
47289 | Why, then, sir, shall he now affect not to understand us? |
47289 | Why, then, will gentlemen persist in that course where danger is almost unavoidable, and shun that where safety is almost certain? |
47289 | Will a navy have this effect? |
47289 | Will any gentleman regret that this twenty- six gun ship has been built, though the mastery of the Lakes has been acquired without it? |
47289 | Will gentlemen be good enough to condescend so far as to assign some object that the Executive could have had in view from such conduct? |
47289 | Will gentlemen suffer me to turn their attention to this last fact? |
47289 | Will gentlemen tell us from whence they are to procure the principal articles of provisions and lumber? |
47289 | Will he explain it? |
47289 | Will he pretend to say, that this is an offensive war; a war of conquest? |
47289 | Will it be less difficult or unpopular to do this after the debt has accumulated to an enormous amount? |
47289 | Will it be said, that when the arrangement was made with Mr. Erskine the President had no knowledge of the blockading orders of May, 1806? |
47289 | Will it come from the Eastward, in bills of the State banks? |
47289 | Will it compel the great belligerent Powers to do us justice for past injuries and secure us for the future? |
47289 | Will it contradict itself by taking away the seamen? |
47289 | Will it not be prudent to diminish the extent of this evil by putting down this bank which is the fountain from which the whole system flows? |
47289 | Will it then be asked, shall we not go to war and fight our way? |
47289 | Will not the alarm be increased by its continuance at this time? |
47289 | Will not the officer be also liable to the State laws? |
47289 | Will not the same causes produce the same effects now as then? |
47289 | Will she learn nothing from the loss of three or four hundred ships? |
47289 | Will she make no diversions in their favor? |
47289 | Will she suffer us to carry the war into her territories, and not retort upon us? |
47289 | Will she then respect our rights? |
47289 | Will the country be less able to repress insurrection? |
47289 | Will the gentleman say she values the principles of the Orders in Council, as she did the sovereignty of her colonies? |
47289 | Will the gentleman trust the merchants with the guardianship of his own honor? |
47289 | Will the honorable gentleman tell us why? |
47289 | Will they deign to listen to the voice of history, and learn how chimerical are their apprehensions? |
47289 | Will they not forever hereafter compel us to trade as they please? |
47289 | Will they prove us by the_ waters_, and reject all such as will not lap as the dog lappeth? |
47289 | Will this old argument, in favor of a navy, now be used, which we have so often heard heretofore? |
47289 | Will you call upon her to leave your ports and harbors untouched, only just till you can return from Canada to defend them? |
47289 | Will you find him in the person of an acquitted felon? |
47289 | Will you have a list of them? |
47289 | Will you have any? |
47289 | Will you keep house forever, rather than make choice of the path through which you will resume your external rights? |
47289 | Will you not only go to war, but wage a_ bellum ad internecinum_ for it? |
47289 | Will you open your campaign at mid- summer? |
47289 | Will you protect that clandestinely destined to Great Britain? |
47289 | Will you protect that destined to the coast of France? |
47289 | Will you refuse to do yours?" |
47289 | Will you say that your provocations were less then than now? |
47289 | Will you say to England,"end the war when you please, give us the direct trade in our own produce, we are content?" |
47289 | Will you seek for the deep foundations of her power in the frozen deserts of Labrador? |
47289 | Will you tax the great agricultural community for the purpose of protecting this extraneous commerce? |
47289 | Will you, sir, have the goodness to direct an inquiry, and order the release of such as are citizens of the United States? |
47289 | Will, then, any injury, or any combination of injuries, authorize or require national resentment? |
47289 | With them alone? |
47289 | With these facts staring him in the face, how could he do otherwise than urge an early session? |
47289 | With this discriminating, permanent, municipal law, could we expect Great Britain to treat with us as a neutral? |
47289 | With what sentiment, think you, would such doctrines have been received? |
47289 | Without her maritime strength, would she have aspired to balance the scales of power on the Continent? |
47289 | Would a tax on salt, he asked, be equal? |
47289 | Would any gentleman who regarded his honor tell the House that there were 30,000 inhabitants in the undisputed Territory? |
47289 | Would he not be right to suspect those who vote for, and more especially those who bring forward such a proposition, of improper motives? |
47289 | Would he not have used it as one of the strongest inducements to the adoption of this system? |
47289 | Would he respect us more than England would? |
47289 | Would it be good policy, he asked, to let our means of carrying on war on the ocean rot in our docks, and not make use of them? |
47289 | Would it be possible that foreign powers could look up with any reverence to their acts? |
47289 | Would it establish our neutral rights? |
47289 | Would it have been proper for the Government to have entered into no stipulations for the security of American seamen? |
47289 | Would it have had that power, if this right had not been expressly delegated? |
47289 | Would it not prove beyond doubt that the Administration was sincere in its wishes for peace? |
47289 | Would it, in your opinion, be advisable to increase the duty on foreign tonnage? |
47289 | Would not the passage of this resolution be considered as an indirect censure on the other Revolutionary characters who have gone from us? |
47289 | Would not these carriers supply their own manufacturers? |
47289 | Would she carry products of other nations, and let her own manufacturers starve? |
47289 | Would she have become a party to the infamous conspiracy of Pilnitz? |
47289 | Would she have broken the peace of Amiens whence her present dangers arise? |
47289 | Would she have wantonly plotted the dismemberment of France? |
47289 | Would the English nation have endured it? |
47289 | Would the chivalry of gentlemen on the other side of the House have suggested an invasion of France? |
47289 | Would the conquest of those colonies shake the policy of the British cabinet? |
47289 | Would the remedy for this interference with our rights be abandoning the ocean altogether? |
47289 | Would they have been permitted in favor of the United States, could those wants be supplied from any other quarter? |
47289 | Would they suffer cotton to go elsewhere, until they themselves were supplied? |
47289 | Would this satisfy the Emperor? |
47289 | Would you be apt to look as much at the nature of the propositions, as at the temper of the assailant? |
47289 | Would you consent to see a scuffle at the gallows between the civil authority and the military for the body of that wretch? |
47289 | Would you have excluded British vessels since 1793, for taking the vessels engaged in your lawful trade, and for impressing your seamen? |
47289 | Would you not tell such an assailant, that you were not to be bullied nor beaten into any concession? |
47289 | Would you ratify such an arrangement if you could help it? |
47289 | Would you ship your commerce there merely to surrender so much property into the grasp of the Emperor? |
47289 | Yes, Mr. President, I reiterate, are they not murderers? |
47289 | Yes, sir, ask yourself this question in regard to any man, to whom you are about to confide important trusts: Does he pay his just debts? |
47289 | Yet, I ask the question: is not the spirit which it breathes disgraceful? |
47289 | You have always got the better of the argument; you have better proclamations; but what avails all this? |
47289 | You have been heretofore told your paper measures were worth nothing: now that it is proposed to give blow for blow, what is said? |
47289 | You have taken Quebec-- have you conquered England? |
47289 | You will wage war, and not to rescue your fellow- citizens from imprisonment and stripes? |
47289 | Your trade was, a few years ago, unrestrained and flourishing-- did it not enrich the most distant parts of your country? |
47289 | [ 34] For these injuries and insults what atonement has been made? |
47289 | _ Blank ballots, shall they be counted?_--In the House on election for Speaker two blank ballots were cast, shall they be counted? |
47289 | _ In the House_, bill taken up, 547; is it such as to require secrecy? |
47289 | _ Now_, where are we? |
47289 | above the legal rate of interest? |
47289 | and has she not always refused to make any arrangement about them? |
47289 | and that, too, from a nation at all times disposed to depress this growing country? |
47289 | and what would be the probable addition to the revenue applicable to the year 1814 by such increase? |
47289 | are they now more disposed to succumb and accept your terms than before the war? |
47289 | debate become angry and be prolonged? |
47289 | did they fall? |
47289 | for relieving him from a dreadful captivity? |
47289 | has the gentleman received any such, even informally, from any officer of this Government? |
47289 | how is it so influenced? |
47289 | how? |
47289 | if so, whence did it arise? |
47289 | is this that_ bona fide_ performance of the condition? |
47289 | or does any American wish to see his country prostrated still lower? |
47289 | or from the unofficial conversation of the members of the House? |
47289 | or how can Mr. Jackson reconcile it to himself to say that in adhering to these gross insinuations, he did not intend to give offence? |
47289 | or is her hostility merely commercial? |
47289 | or should even endeavor to teach others to venerate, to cherish, to support it? |
47289 | shall our militia be commanded by officers commissioned by the President? |
47289 | the orders of June and November, 1793, which produced Jay''s treaty? |
47289 | to engage every man who is willing to serve his country? |
47289 | to place a recruiting officer in almost every town and village in the United States? |
47289 | were parties never before heard of in this country? |
47289 | what injury have we not suffered? |
47289 | what''s that? |
47289 | what''s that?" |
47289 | where would have been that proud spirit of resistance to Ministerial encroachment on our rights and liberties, which achieved our independence? |
47289 | whether, by our laws, and the practice under them, we have afforded them all that protection and security to which they are entitled? |
47289 | who are they?" |